National Geographic Recaps Extreme Projects
Take a look at “Big Ideas, Little Packages“.
Noora Health (Extreme 2012) Named one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies”
Noora Health, a project out of Design for Extreme Affordability’s 2012 cohort, was named #4 on Fast Company’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2017 in India. Congratulations to the Noora Health team! Read the full story here. Over 2.4 million nurses are need to meet India’s current healthcare needs. Noora Health helps close […]
Extreme profiled on CNN’s The Next List with Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta of CNN’s The Next List profiled Jim Patell, Co-Founder of Design for Extreme Affordability and the Design for Extreme Affordability Program at Stanford University in a 30 minute video segment. Take a look at the CNN article, “Addressing tough poverty problems with innovation and design“, and the video segment below!
A Look at EarthEnable (Extreme 2013), Profiled by the Stanford GSB
Check out Stanford Graduate School of Business’ profile, “Paving the Way to Healthy Homes“, featuring EarthEnable, an Extreme project from 2013 that has now blossomed into a startup operating in Rwanda. From the article: “[EarthEnable] sells floors to poor people. Specifically, the social enterprise, which [Gayatri Datar, CEO] cofounded and runs, makes paved flooring from compressed earthen materials that […]
Marketplace discusses Extreme and getting affordable products to those in need
Check out “Design: where dollars are scarce and need is great” by Marketplace, discussing how U.S. universities are developing affordable products for those in need.