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News
Mind and Hand: MIT And the Pursuit of African Entrepreneurship
Medium - The African startup scene has been on a roll for the past few years with numerous success stories and an increased appetite from American and international investors resulting in over $2 Billion raised in 2019, a 74% [...]
MIT builds community for the Africa Takes On Covid-19 challenge
MIT News – It all started, like so many things recently, with a Zoom call. David Capodilupo, assistant dean for MIT Sloan Global Programs (GP); Bill Carter, award-winning filmmaker, author, teacher, and MIT consultant; and [...]
MIT-affiliated companies take on Covid-19
MIT News - As the world grapples with the public health crises and myriad disruptions brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, many efforts to address its impact are underway. Several of those initiatives are being [...]
A mobile tool for global change
Frontline health workers represent the lifeblood of many health care systems in low- and middle-income countries around the world. Often overworked and underpaid, these workers operate outside hospital settings to meet the community’s poorest people [...]
Events
Starr Forum: Where Powers Live – January 16, 2020
MIT Center for International Studies and MIT-Africa present the short film, "Where Powers Live," followed by a discussion and Q&A with filmmaker Shola Lawal. Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm Building E40, 496 Pye Conference [...]
MIT-Africa Forum: September 26, 2019
David Auerbach (MBA ‘11, Legatum Fellow 2011-2012) is a co-founder of Sanergy, which provides sanitation solutions that serve all urban residents, converting waste into valuable end-products. (Sept. 26, 12-1pm, E40-163 (The Martin Trust Center’s “The Garage”) [...]
MIT Africa Innovate Conference
The MIT Africa Innovate Conference, sponsored by the MIT Sloan Africa Business Club, will be held on April 14, 2019 at the Samberg Conference Center. This year’s conference theme is “Made in Africa." Through a [...]
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