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Idea Transform partners with Humanitarian Centre and CUTEC to support Global Health Hack Day

Posted on March 12th, 2012 by
Idea Transform partners with Humanitarian Centre and CUTEC to support Global Health Hack Day

As part of its programme to help develop innovative ideas that can make a positive difference to society, Idea Transform is joining forces with the Humanitarian Centre and the Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC), to support the forthcoming Global Health Hack Day.
Being held as part of this year’s Cambridge Science Festival the Global Health Hack Day is an exciting ‘open innovation’ event that will see eight teams of bright, enterprising students presenting their (more...)

Registration is Open for the Global Health Hack Day!

Posted on February 6th, 2012 by
Registration is Open for the Global Health Hack Day!

The Winning Team from the CUTEC & Medimmune 2011 Open Innovation Challenge proudly display their certificates
The Cambridge Science Festival has a unique offering this year for anyone interested in exploring the relationship between science and entrepreneurship.  The Global Health Hack Day is an “open innovation” event being run by the Humanitarian Centre, in partnerhsip with the Cambridge University Technology and Entreprise Club (CUTEC).
The Global Health Hack Day is based on a pioneering (more...)

Impact of Aid in Africa: Reflections on the Debate

Posted on November 7th, 2011 by
Impact of Aid in Africa: Reflections on the Debate

Andrew Mwenda, speaking at TED Global 2007 in Arusha, on African aid. Photograph: Andrew Heavens for TED.com
In gauging the net impact foreign aid has had in Africa, speakers at Cambridge Union Society reframed the debate as the antithesis of aid-fuelled statism and home-grown entrepreneurship. By concentrating capital in government hands, foreign aid was said to crowd out the domestic private sector: “We don’t need aid, we have so many entrepreneurs, creative people,” Andrew Mwenda (more...)