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An agenda for a developmental entrepreneurship course, including guidelines for deliverables, examples of worthy opportunities, and sources for specific ideas. Macro categories include health, catastrophe mitigation, shelter, transportation, culture, distributed power, infocom, education, business models, and finance. Examples of opportunities within these categories include low cost test and diagnostics, cholera treatment, clean water solutions, remote imaging, landmine detection, ecofriendly structures, farming moto-extensions, and aesthetic resources.
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Macro Categories
Transportation
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Distributed Power
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Information &Communication
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Education
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Business Models
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Finance …
Basic Needs
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Health
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CatastropheMitigation
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Shelter
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Farming
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Culture
Health: Low Cost Test &
Diagnostics
Disease
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Contamination
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Analogous to pH orLitmus paper
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Telediagnostics
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“Penny Diagnostics”
http://gn.www.media.mit.edu/resenv/telemed/ http://www.media.mit.edu/nanoscale/research/sensors.html http://web.media.mit.edu/~jasont/dist/tabletopchem/
Health: Clean Water
Ashok Gadgil’s UVdisinfection systemby
Water Health International
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Wastewatertreatment filter
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Desalination
http://www.world-wide-water.com/Desal.html http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/search.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2000/filters.html
Catastrophe Mitigation: Imaging & Early Warnings
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Remote imaging
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Weather forecastsfor farmers andfishermen and low-land dwellers www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/teachers/ disaster/wrksht12a.htm
Shelter: Ecofriendly Structures •^
Building Efficiency in China http://loohooloo.mit.edu/plan/pla n_issues/54/china/index.html
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Sanitary facilities & Plumbing
http://www.thinkcycle.org
http://www.rmi.org/
Transportation:
Farming Moto-extensions
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Enfield Bulletmotorcycleappendage
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Generalizable…
http://www.sristi.org/santi_tech.html
http://www.sristi.org/motorcycle.html
Culture: Leveraging Local
Experts
What key tools doblacksmiths need?
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Local toolsmiths,really
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Occasionally,they’re doctors,dentists http://www.tfsr.org/ http://www.ifad.org/gender/learning/sector/agriculture/71.htm http://www.atalink.co.uk/bdhf/html/p081.htm www.woodsfordps.supanet.com/CamTFSR/ cambridge_tfsr_page2.ht
Culture: Aesthetic & Natural
Resources
China’s parks &walls
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Jordan’s ancientruins
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Etc!
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Howprofit?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A19962-2001Jul4 abe.www.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/ agenmc/china/scengw.html
Distributed Power:
Enhanced Photosynthesis
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Thin film techniques
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Ultra-efficientgreenhouses?
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Power roofs?
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/nocera.html http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/dgn/www/
Distributed Power:No Electricity AC &
Refrigeration
Natural Coolingtechniques,packaged well
http://www.sristi.org/naturalwatercooler.html
http://www.humboldt.edu/~ccat/renewableEnergyFiles/naturalrefrig.html