Open 2013: Helping to Disseminate Technology with University Program Support: Examples of how to foster technologies' progression towards scale
1. Students learn to become leaders that can
address the well-being of people living in poverty
through design and entrepreneurship
Courses + Placement program
Site visits
Engaged Studying Practicing Leading
Internship Multi-campus Mission driven A new social venture
Course company/NGO
NCIIA OPEN - Benjamin Linder, Olin College, Erik Noyes, Babson College
2. REGIONAL IMPLEMENTATION
1 2 3
Regional
focus
Potential
product-ventures
Pilots
Opportunity identification Development Deployment
Multiple approaches 2 product-ventures 0-2 product-ventures
Rough components Refined components Validated components
Many assumptions Many assumptions tested Replication assumptions
3. PRODUCT-VENTURE PIPELINE
Opportunity
identification Development Deployment
Rickshaw
modification
New products
Water Rickshaw
chlorination drivetrain
Rickshaw
dispatch
Bamboo Joint
bicycle improvement
design Bike
accessories
Cactus oil
extraction
Brand
strategy 2 to 6 Semesters!
Hoop
house Mobile
New ventures
Accessibility Ghana
Equipment
Cassava
co-op Beeswax India
grating
Gari income Morocco
pressing Alabama
Massachusetts
4. SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES
Successes Challenges
Students transformed Continuity
Students placed Undergraduate founders
Lives changed Partner expectations
Satisfied partners Distributed teaming
Participation by Travel…
women/underrepresented
Deployment from courses
Institutional support