MIT-Africa

#EVENTALERT: Join us next Thursday in MIT Building E40-494 for our inaugural Global Research & Policy Seminar! Geopolitical realignments and the rise of alternative global power centers carry significant implications for movements historically grounded in Western norms and approaches to human rights, anti-corruption, and good governance.?John Githongo,?a leading anti-corruption voice and Robert E Wilhelm Fellow at CIS, will discuss how global anti-corruption efforts can adapt to the evolving rules of engagement in our multipolar world. Please join us at 8:30 AM for breakfast, followed by the seminar at 9:00 AM. MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences MIT Political Science #anticorruption #humanrights #research #policy

It's always exciting to see great things come from the MIT-Africa Seed Funds program and the collaboration that it facilitates!

Our 2023-2024 Annual Report is now available! Thank you to all our friends, colleagues, partners, participants, and supporters who have made—and continue to make—our work possible. And a special thank you to the visionary Gustav Combey for the incredible design work, year after year. https://lnkd.in/gdZbQA3f

“The idea of Ghana Codes was to start a program to train young people in high schools to improve their appreciation of what a career path in computer science, in tech, would be and also to lower the barriers to access for the training that we’ve had in schools inside and outside of Ghana.” - Kwesi Afrifa Check out Kwesi and other Ghanaian students as they talk about their work this summer with Ghana Codes and the ways in which they aspire to give back to their community. https://lnkd.in/gXyvtGRA?

Meet our MIT-Africa Faculty Director, Prof. Mai Hassan!

CIS is proud to announce John Githongo as the 2024-2025 Robert E Wilhelm fellow! Githongo is among the world's leading voices on the relationship between corrupt democracies, development, and poverty in the modern world. He is regarded as a leading light in the Transparency movement--a global initiative focused on freeing the world of corruption. Hailing from Kenya, Githongo was an investigative journalist focused on bribery and fraud in his home country. He was a columnist for The East African between 1995 and 2003, and worked as a correspondent for The Economist, among other publications. Githongo said his time at MIT will be "a period of reflection and writing on the many of the assumptions we held in the 1990s as liberal democracies were introduced across Africa have ended or become irrelevant. What we always discussed as tomorrow's challenges have arrived and define public life today on the world's youngest continent." Read more about John Githongo here: https://lnkd.in/eiDcmyt2 MIT Political Science MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences #WilhelmFellow

Congratulations to the MIT-Africa Seed Fund awardees of this year! The grantees will work on innovative projects that will help lay the foundations for new research between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and African collaborators. MIT International Science & Technology Initiatives (MISTI) MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) Ari Jacobovits

Wonderful to see Mai and Tayo in this video!

A Partilha de Conhecimento é a base da nossa intera??o profissional, a nível nacional e internacional. Os resultados do nosso trabalho permitem a sustentabilidade e a amplia??o dos projetos implementados. A atribui??o desse financiamento, pelo MIT-Global Seed Funds, reconhece o nosso empenho em proporcionar evidencias científicas que possam assistir o processo de tomada de decis?es, oficializando a parceria entre a Universidade Jean Piaget de Cabo Verde, a NOVA Medical School - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, e o MIT em Boston, a melhor universidade do mundo de acordo com o QS World University Rankings 2024. Sendo a ciência um esfor?o colaborativo, agrade?o o MIT/MISTI-Africa Programme e o seu Coordenador, Ari Jacobovits, cujas competências aqui enalte?o, para permitir ao nosso país de integrar estudantes interessados em contribuir aos nossos estudos, como Cindy Xie; o Diretor do Center for Environmental Health do MIT, Jacquin Niles, pela sua extraordinária disponibilidade, e o Professor do MIT-Sloan School of Management, Luis Barros, um profissional altamente qualificado da nossa diáspora cabo-verdiana, por ambos ter acolhido de imediato a minha proposta; a Magnifica Reitora Joanita Cristina Rodrigues e os Professores da Universidade Jean Piaget, Lara Ferrero Gómez, Helio Rocha, e Jo?o Pedro Martins, pelo entusiasmo em estabelecer essas parcerias; e a minha equipa na NOVA Medical School, Illyane Lima e Ana Pêgo, pela vontade de investigar temas cada vez mais complexos, desafiantes e para além fronteiras. O meu obrigada também ao continuo suporte dado pelo Professor Jo?o Resende-Santos, da Bentley University, também quadro altamente qualificado da nossa diáspora cabo-verdiana, com o qual partilho numerosas iniciativas que visam a implementar, em Cabo Verde, projetos educativos, científicos e tecnológicos de qualidade. A Diáspora continua a mostrar o seu Amor a Pátria e o seu Interesse Genuíno de ver Cabo Verde alcan?ar novos patamares, no seu Desenvolvimento! Juntos, lá chegaremos! NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas Universidade Nova de Lisboa Universidade Jean Piaget de Cabo Verde MIT International Science & Technology Initiatives (MISTI) MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) Diáspora Mundi

Fantastic collaboration with the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard!