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problems than their neighbors or colleagues who have access to the same resources.

Rural Innovations Network

Rural Innovations Network (RIN) is a not-for-profit entity based in South India, supported by Lemelson Foundation.

Its mission is to identify and incubate grassroots technological innovations developed largely by rural users that can

have a significant impact on rural lives and to enable these innovations to reach rural markets. RIN identifies these

innovations and helps to develop and retail the innovations that have commercial potential.

Prolinnova

Prolinnova is a network of organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America that promotes and disseminates local

innovation in ecologically-oriented agriculture and natural resource management. Prolinnovas work builds on the

farmer participatory approaches, and it pushes the approach to truly unearth and support innovations coming fromfarmers. They have recently piloted Local Innovation Support Funds in several countries to support farmers in their

experimentation with new innovative practices in the field.

International Development Design Summit

The International Development Design Summit is a month-long collaboration amongst an international and

multidisciplinary group of students, university faculty and other professionals to design and prototype technologies

conceived by local innovators in the developing world. An annual event, IDDS focuses on a new set of projects every

year that address a variety of challenges in agriculture, energy, health and water. The Summit aims to not only

produce technologies with significant impact for the developing world, but also encourage the international

development community, academia and local communities to more systematically utilize novel models of innovation

- including co-creation, cross-disciplinary innovation, and crowd-sourcing - when problem solving.

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