{{Short description|Project to improve quality of life in third world countries}} {{Infobox website | name = International Development Design Summit | owner = | logo = | caption = | company_type = | foundation = | founder = Amy B. Smith<ref name="smith">{{cite news|url=http://iddsummit.org/about?sub=2007|title=IDDS 2007|date=January 23, 2009|access-date=2012-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424235942/http://iddsummit.org/about?sub=2007|archive-date=April 24, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> | area_served = Worldwide | location_city = {{nowrap|Cambridge, Massachusetts}} | location_country= United States | key_people = | url = {{URL|www.idin.org/what-we-do/international-development-design-summits}} | registration = | launch_date = 2007 | current_status = Active | language = English, multilingual subtitle, transcript | alexa = | website_type = Academic conference }}
The '''International Development Design Summit''' '''(IDDS)''' is a collaboration to find cost effective technology solutions for the third world. It was first held in 2007 at MIT.<ref name="MIT D-Lab">{{cite web |title=International Development Design Summits |url=https://d-lab.mit.edu/about/international-development-design-summits |publisher=MIT D-Lab}}</ref> It is held annually to study problems in the developing world and create real, workable solutions to them.<ref name=PCOLMitnews/>
==Background== "I believe very strongly that solutions to problems in the developing world are best created in collaboration with the people who will be using them", said founder Amy Smith .<ref name=PCOLMitnews/> "By bringing this group of people together, we get an incredibly broad range of backgrounds and experiences.<ref name=PCOLMitnews>{{cite web | url= http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/iddesignsummit-0713.html | title = Making a difference in the developing world | author = Heather Manning | work = MIT News | date = 2007-07-13}}</ref>
''WorldChanging'' reported on August 14, 2007 that the results from the first International Development Design Summit (IDDS) had been very positive with end products including an off-grid refrigeration unit tailored for rural areas using an evaporative cooling method to store perishable food and a low-cost greenhouse from recycled and widely available materials.<ref name=PCOLWorldchanging>{{cite web | url= http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007106.html | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070826185714/http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007106.html | url-status= dead | archive-date= 2007-08-26 | access-date=2007-08-26 | title = South-South Design Flourishes at MIT Summit | author = Jonathon Greenblatt | work = World Changing | date = 2007-08-14}}</ref>
==See also== *International development
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==External links== * {{cite web| url = http://www.appropedia.org/International_Development_Design_Summit | title = International Development Design Summit | work = appropedia.org}} * {{cite web| url = http://www.idin.org | title = International Development Innovation Network | work = IDIN}} * {{cite web| url = http://tribune.com.pk/story/1031947/potential-to-lead-using-technology-to-overcome-poverty | title = IDDS Lahore in the Tribune}}
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