IN THIS ISSUE
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A Letter from the DIL Directors
4
A Device That Could Change Healthcare
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Electrification for “Under Grid” Households in Rural Kenya: Five
Questions for Ken Lee
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Outreach at Conferences
8
TechCon 2014
9
Beyond Providing Clean Water: A Profile of Development Engineer
Syed Imran Ali
11
New Faces at DIL
12
Mezuri: Smart Data for Development
13
Mezuri: Eight Questions for Eric Brewer
14
A Contest to Catalyze Literacy via Mobiles Worldwide
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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 creative 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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