IN THIS ISSUE
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A Letter from the DIL Directors
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Development Engineering Journal Launches at Tech4Dev
Lessons from a Technology Flop: RFID works for WalMart but not small businesses in Sri Lanka
Class of 2016: First Cohort of Development Engineers
Development Engineering awarded $ 3 million from National Science Foundation
Random Access
Tracking Grain Flows in Tanzania: Six Questions for Jessica Rudder
In the Field: DIL-E4C Mobile Data Collection Series
A Course that Designs for Sustainable Communities
Big Ideas Team Wins at USAID’ s TechCon
Impact Numbers: Celebrating 10 Years of Big Ideas
2016 DIL Explore and Innovate Awards
Where We’ ve Been: Conferences | News | Academic Publications
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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