Project Milestones
The project teams progressed through a sequence of seven milestones during the term. Presentation slides summarizing the milestone requirements are provided below for the first three milestones.
- Elevator Pitch and Related Work (PDF)
- Needs Assessments Initial Results (PDF)
- System Design, and Initial Implementation Results (PDF)
- Sustainability / Financial Factors
- Feature Complete, General Progress Report
- Working Demo
- Final Presentation Event
Project Team Pages
From a longer list of potential projects, student teams worked on the following seven projects. Each of the following links goes to a page presenting videos and slides of final results, as well as interim milestones and some supplemental project materials.
| ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT |
| Giving Farmers a Fighting Chance (with ITESM Zacatecas, Mexico) |
| Get New Money: Multilevel marketing for microfinance (with Cobiscorp Bank, Ecuador) |
| M-commerce (with United Villages, India) |
| HEALTH |
| MoCa: Mobile diagnostics for cervical cancer (with CIDRZ, Zambia) |
| EDUCATION |
| Fellows Forum: Mobile social network for students in low-income communities (with Telmex, Mexico) |
| ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNITY |
| NextMap: Disaster Management (with CRS, India and InnovGreen, Vietnam) |
| Thrive in 5 Baby Blog (with Mayor’s Office, Boston) |