MIT Tata Center for Technology + Design
The Tata Center for Technology and Design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, was founded in 2012 with support from the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and the Allied Tata Trusts. The Center’s research and education mission is to develop solutions to challenges facing resource-constrained communities globally, with an initial focus on India. Center affiliated Faculty and graduate student Fellows engage in hands-on projects, with an approach that is rigorous and relevant to societal, economic, environmental and political factors. Solutions must create sustainable value and foster an entrepreneurial approach towards implementation in the public and private sectors. The Center is developing global leaders and is proud to partner with the sister Tata Centre, founded in 2014 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
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National rural drinking water monitoring: progress and challenges with India's IMIS database
(IWA Publishing, 2016-02)National drinking water programs seek to address monitoring challenges that include self-reporting, data sampling, data consistency and quality, and sufficient frequency to assess the sustainability of water systems. India ... -
Scaling the Maternal and Neonatal Survival Initiatives (MANSI) program in low resource settings
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)The Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) are very high in parts of rural India when compared to other developing and developed countries. To address these high rates the World Health Organization ... -
Extending the reach of anterior segment ophthalmic imaging
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)Eye exams via a slit lamp are critical in screening for conditions such as cataracts, corneal opacities and pterygia early on to avert vision loss. The slit lamp, however, is a purely qualitative optical device that is ...
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