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Come join disaster relief effort at Hack and Save

April 1, 2014 – LeAnn Noh

Want to bring innovative solutions to disaster relief effort? Come join us at Hack and Save!

The Harvard School of Public Health Student Society for Refugee Health and Public Health,  Innovation, and Technology Student Forum are organizing Hack and Save this April 12th. 

Hack and Save is an ideas hack-a-thon focused on improving the quality of life of victims of disaster, disaster relief efforts, and access to medicine in disaster settings. The mission of Hack and Save is to harvest innovative and disruptive solutions to address the challenges in humanitarian efforts from the rich pool of talents in the greater Boston area.

Hack and Save is a 24-hour event that will invite experts and hackers to exchange and develop solutions for general challenges in humanitarian efforts or for specific problems posed by the organizers. Both individuals and teams are welcome to participate.  For more information and registration check out www.HackandSave.org

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LIDS Adviser Katrin Kuhlmann Launches New Markets Lab

September 15, 2013

LIDS adviser Katrin Kuhlmann launched a nonprofit called New Market Labs earlier this year. NML intends to generate and house innovative approaches in economic law, regulation and policy to address impediments to market expansion in developing countries. Based in Washington, DC, NML is already partnering with TransFarm Africa, the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on projects in Tanzania and Ethiopia.

Kuhlmann, together with former LIDS co-President Colette van der Ven and Erum Sattar of Harvard Law School, has also set up the Trade Innovation Institute, an informal group that gives students at Harvard and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy an opportunity to research legal and policy matters relevant to NML”s mission.

Katrin Kuhlmann is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, President of TransFarm Africa, a fellow at ANDE, and Executive Director of the U.S.-Africa Business Center. She was a 2012-13 Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School.

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