MIT Students & Africa
Whether it’s interning in an African country or getting involved in a club on campus, MIT students have many options for engaging with the continent.
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For cultural and political conflicts, a humanizing imperative
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Nasir Almasri heard so many discussions about the political struggles of Palestinians that by the time he was 7, he thought he’d heard enough to last a lifetime. [...]
Can digital technology help create a more gender-equal society?
Ninety percent of countries have at least one legal barrier to women owning property, receiving an inheritance, or opening a bank account. Only six countries in the world give women equal work rights as men. And at [...]
Twenty years of cultivating tech entrepreneurs
In 2010, Clarisse Iribagiza was studying computer engineering at the University of Rwanda’s College of Science and Technology. She was intrigued to hear about a program on the fundamentals of technological entrepreneurship offered by the [...]