MIT Solve

Let's give a warm welcome to our 2024 Indigenous Communities Solver teams! 👏 Each of these innovators integrates traditional knowledge with modern technology to support social, environmental, and economic resiliency in their communities. 🌎 ʻĀinaQuest: Using gameplay to cultivate pilina (relationships) between native plants and people. 🌎 Consultation Corral: Advancing the Indigenous community’s position in Tribal Consultation. 🌎 Renewable Rebirth (Eighth Generation Consulting): Empowering Indigenous communities to lead the recycling of legacy renewable energy assets. 🌎 Yucayekeno Connect: Connecting Borikua Taino heritage through a matrilineal kinship system. 🌎 wâsikan kisewâtisiwin-using AI for Good: Combatting hate speech against Indigenous People with AI internet monitoring. 🌎 Resilient Roots: Otoe-Missouria ThriveMap: Preserving the Otoe-Missouria tribe's climate jurisdiction with a storytelling map. Find out how these change-makers are shaping the future for both their communities and the world: https://lnkd.in/enWqJxZ5

Today is the International Day of Care and Support, a day to recognize the dedication of care providers everywhere and the importance of elevating their work. Caregivers support over one billion people globally, yet most care work is unpaid or undervalued. In 2022, MIT Solve selected eight Care Economy Solver teams whose solutions strengthen the care economy by making it accessible, affordable, and valued for all. Each team addresses pressing needs in caregiving, from elder care to disability support to accessible childcare. 💙 Jamii Life, 💙 RE-Assist, 💙 Kidogo - quality child care through social franchising, 💙 Care Xchange - Staff Share (Labour Xchange), 💙 Carina Care Matching Platform, 💙 DawaMom (Dawa Health), 💙 Pie for Providers, 💙 Dasuns Learn more about these Solver innovations: https://lnkd.in/eV8BX4gb #Caregivers #Dayofcare

We love to see our Solver teams in the news! Congrats to 2024 climate Solver, Oorja Development Solutions Limited, 2020 climate Solver, Beewise, 2019 health Solver, change:WATER Labs, and 2022 Solv[ED] youth innovator, Hydroquo+ Labs, who are making headlines for their work!

If you're interested in the connection between entrepreneurship and "AI for good," check out our latest edition of The Reach. Our main feature is about Charu Singh, CEO and Founder of Just Value, who received a $50,000 grant from MFF MIT Solve. Read more at https://lnkd.in/gfbb-A3Y

We're eager to share the innovations from the 2024 Learning Solver teams! Their groundbreaking solutions use technology to make education more inclusive, adaptive, and equitable for all learners while empowering educators and communities. 📚 MakerDost (MakerGhat): Supporting hands-on learning among teachers and youth from underserved communities using a LLM chatbot. 📚 Musa: Delivering accessible, personalized microlearning to democratize education across Latin America. 📚 Hunu (Craft Education ): Helping children with behavior and learning challenges through collaboration between therapists, parents, and teachers. 📚 The Tatum T1 (Tatum Robotics): Supporting DeafBlind individuals with an independent, tactile-sign communication tool. 📚 Lirvana Labs, Maker of Yeti Confetti Kids: Teaching out-of-school refugee children in Lebanon with an AI learning companion. 📚 NABU Multilingual Reading App and Web Reader: Providing children with equal access to high-quality, mother-tongue, bi-lingual digital content. Learn how these innovators are bridging the gaps in educational opportunities: https://lnkd.in/enWqJxZ5 #EdTech #Educationforall #Innovation

Our 2020 Climate Solver, Alexia Akbay, founder and CEO of Symbrosia , is featured in this Forbes article! Solve is proud of all the growth and impact you've made! 👏👏

📢 Say hello to our 2024 Economic Prosperity Solver teams! These exceptional innovations harness technology to accelerate economic mobility, create new opportunities, and enhance financial and digital inclusion—key components of fostering peaceful, resilient societies. 🌱 Adalat AI Court Transcription: Improving access to justice with an AI legal transcription tool. 🌱 FreeWorld: Placing formally incarcerated individuals into living-wage careers. 🌱 NaTakallam: Connecting displaced & conflict-affected language teachers with clients world wide. 🌱 Just Value Inc.: Tackling the undervaluation of homes in communities of color. 🌱 VunaPay: Providing instant payments to farmers delivering to the Agricultural Cooperative. 🌱 Symplifica APP: Streamlining job formalization for domestic workers in Colombia and Mexico. Learn more about these visionaries and their innovations: https://lnkd.in/enWqJxZ5 #SocialImpact #Innovation #WealthCreation

🏥 Today we're featuring the 2024 Global Health Equity Solver teams! Each innovator is working on solutions dedicated to equitable and quality healthcare using technology. Johnson & Johnson Foundation is a Global Health Equity Anchor Supporter. 🩺 NiADA (Monere:) Non-invasive, point-of-care, real-time AI app that detects and monitors anemia. 🩺 SAANS (InnAccel): Portable, non-invasive CPAP system for universal neonatal and pediatric breathing support. 🩺 OpenFlexure Microscope: Open-source 3D-printed automated microscope for diagnostics. 🩺 ThriveLink: AI phone agent for enrolling families into social programs without internet or literacy. 🩺 MediBot (Equitech Collective): AI clinical support chatbot for primary care providers in Timor Leste. 🩺 AmarDoctor (MedAi): AI health platform for Bengali and English speakers, tackling health inequality. Learn more about their innovations and how to support their work: https://lnkd.in/enWqJxZ5 #HealthEquity #Innovation #AccessToCare

This week is dedicated to our 2024 Solver class, the 30 winners of our 2024 global challenges announced at our recent event, Solve Challenge Finals. Over the next nine months, these teams will receive personalized support to scale their groundbreaking solutions: 🌏 Today we are introducing the six climate Solver teams! Each of these innovators is addressing how communities can create a zero-carbon world and adapt to a warmer climate. 🌱 SXD: Patent-published AI platform repurposes fabric waste. 🌱 Earthbond Solar for SMEs: An easy transition to clean, affordable solar energy for businesses. 🌱 Oorja Development Solutions Limited: Pay-Per-Use solar technology model for smallholder farmers. 🌱 Amini: AI-powered platform to help African farmers adapt to climate change. 🌱 SOS Biotech: Transforming invasive seaweed into valuable products. 🌱 OX Delivers: Electric delivery trucks for African farmers. Learn more about their work: https://lnkd.in/enWqJxZ5 #Sustainability #Innovation #ClimateChange

Check out our 2024 Fellows featured in Tribal Business News for their community-based solutions by and for Indigenous communities across the United States and Canada. ʻĀinaQuest, Consultation Corral, Renewable Rebirth, Yucayekeno Connect, wâsikan kisewâtisiwin, and Resilient Roots: Otoe-Missouria ThriveMap https://hubs.li/Q02Tqdj30