IN THIS ISSUE
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Berkeley Lab Water Technology “Boomerangs” from Bangladesh to CA
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USAID Mission Engagement
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Ticora Jones: The Federal Government’s Scientist for Global Development
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Gridwatch: Using Cell Phone Sensors to Detect Power Outages
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The Measurement Revolution: An Interview with DIL’s Temina Madon
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A New Interdisciplinary DevEng Journal
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Big Ideas 2015-2016 Contest Launches
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2015 DIL Explore and Innovate Awards
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Six Questions with Microsoft’s James Bernard
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Where We’ve Been: Conferences, News, & Publications
Cover Photos (from left to right): 1. The WE CARE Solar Solar Suitcase (Source: Laura Stachel) 2. High Resolution Development Indicators (HRDI) project
has developed a set of algorithms and techniques to predict individual and community economic behavior (Source: Joshua Blumenstock) 3. The CellScope
Loa loa saves lives by detecting Loa loa and enabling alternate treatments to river blindness. (Source: CellScope) 4. Sensor technologies provide objective,
quantitative and continuous operational data on the usage and performance of development interventions. (Source: Evan Thomas)
About DIL
The Development Impact Lab (DIL) is an international consortium of universities and research institutes, NGOs, and industry
partners addressing global poverty through advances in science and engineering. Headquartered at the University of California,
Berkeley (UCB), DIL was launched in 2012 with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in collaboration
with the U.S. Global Development Lab.
Led by the Blum Center for Developing Economies and the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), DIL leverages the innovative
capacity of world-class universities to design “development solutions,” which couple new technologies with novel economic and
behavioral interventions. These solutions are rigorously evaluated in the real world and then iteratively redesigned based on field
results. Ultimately, proven solutions are transitioned to partners for scale-up and dissemination.
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