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MIT OpenCourseWare
D-Lab: Disseminating Innovations for the Common Good
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- Instructor
- Susan Murcott
- Term
- Spring 2007
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 video · 21 lecture notes · 2 readings · 40 other files · 11 web pages
- Materials open
- Videos here · files on MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare EC.715 D-Lab: Disseminating Innovations for the Common Good, Spring 2007, Susan Murcott — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Readings
- Final Report Draft V7. Download
- Mauro Nunez links/project Download
- Reading Guide on Participatory Development Download
- Total Sanitation Download
Lecture Notes
35 files
- Classic Venture Capital 16 September 1999 Download
- Development Entrepreneurship, $100K and IDEAS Competitions Download
- DOI, Chapter 1 Download
- Lec. 1. Big Ideas & Introductions Download
- Lecture Notes 4 Download
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- IDEAS competition, Deshpande Center for Innovation Download
- Diffusion of Innovations Download
- Diffusion of Innovations by Everett Rogers Download
- Diffusion of Innovation Download
- Source of Funding for Entrepreneurial Ventures Download
- Diffusion of Innovation Download
- Monitoring and evaluation Download
- Diffusion of Innovation Download
- Pure Home Water in Northern Ghana Download
- Big ideas Download
- IDEAS Competition, Deshpande Center for Innovation Download
Projects
18 files in this section
- Innovative Drinking Water Treatment Technology for Bangladesh, West Bengal, and Nepal Download
- Arsenic Biosand Filter Download
- Synergetic Download
- Test Water Download
- Bicilavadora: the Pedal-Powered Washing Machine Download
New DOTS
Vac-Cast
Biogas Nicaragua
LearnTB
DataHealth Pakistan
- Continuous Tracking and Analysis of Disease Outbreaks in Rural Areas of Lahore Download
- Lahore Presentation Download
EVCO
Sustainable Shelters
Other materials from this course
- Illustration of how rural communities with similar socioeconomic characteristics that might be at… Open ↗
- Illustration of the fabrication of sustainable shelters for post-earthquake reconstruction Open ↗
- Diagram of a novel biogas digester system prototype Open ↗
- Image of a human-powered evacuation device for vacuum-casting prosthetics Open ↗
- Example of child-targeted educational materials to raise awareness of tuberculosis Open ↗
- Image of a prototype device that utilized the waste heat from the exhaust of a civilian pick up… Open ↗
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Development entrepreneurship, $100K and IDEAS competitions
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Lecture 3: IDEAS competition, Deshpande Center for Innovation
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Lecture 4: Team formation, meaning of “Development” and proposal outline
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Lecture 5: Co-evolutionary design for development
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Lecture 6: Case study — Muhammad Yunus: Banker to the poor
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Lecture 7: Case study — Muhammad Yunus - continued discussion
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Lecture 8: Case study — Dr. Paul Farmer and Dr. Venkataswamy (Ali Alhassani)
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Lecture 9: Theory
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Lecture 10: IDEAS proposals review workshop
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Lecture 11: Case study — participatory development and patent basics and confidentiality (Tamira Gunzburg)
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Lecture 12: Case study — Ghana pottery and patents (cont.) (Jessica Lee)
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Lecture 13: Finance
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Lecture 14: Case Study — making aid work (Angela Kilby), mixed income housing (Daniel Bergey)
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Lecture 15: Finance (cont.)
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Lecture 16: Case Study — rural energy in developing countries (Zehra Ali), eco-effectiveness (Tess Veuthey)
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Lecture 17: IdeasStream conference and innovation showcase; Theory
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Lecture 18: Monitoring and evaluation
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Lecture 19: Case Study — total sanitation (Ibrahim Kanan)
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Lecture 20: Technology for remediation of arsenic in drinking water; Theory
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Lecture 21: Case study — human waste reuse (Xavier Gonzalez)
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Lecture 22: Social marketing
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Lecture 23: Case study — biogas in Nepal (Chris Tostado)
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Lecture 24: Final presentations
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Lecture 25: Final presentations (cont.)
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