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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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