Blum Center for Developing Economies
@blumcenter.bsky.social
The Blum Center for Developing Economies is an interdisciplinary hub for understanding and acting on global poverty and inequality at UC Berkeley.
Attention, Berkeley students!
Want to design and build solutions to real-world civic challenges in your own backyard?
The Big Ideas Contest has launched the Civic Innovation Challenge, a fast-paced, 7-day design sprint that empowers you to do just that.
Apps due Dec. 1: bigideascontest.org/CIC/
Want to design and build solutions to real-world civic challenges in your own backyard?
The Big Ideas Contest has launched the Civic Innovation Challenge, a fast-paced, 7-day design sprint that empowers you to do just that.
Apps due Dec. 1: bigideascontest.org/CIC/
October 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Attention, Berkeley students!
Want to design and build solutions to real-world civic challenges in your own backyard?
The Big Ideas Contest has launched the Civic Innovation Challenge, a fast-paced, 7-day design sprint that empowers you to do just that.
Apps due Dec. 1: bigideascontest.org/CIC/
Want to design and build solutions to real-world civic challenges in your own backyard?
The Big Ideas Contest has launched the Civic Innovation Challenge, a fast-paced, 7-day design sprint that empowers you to do just that.
Apps due Dec. 1: bigideascontest.org/CIC/
Congrats to Bioengineering Professor and Blum Center Faculty Director Dan Fletcher for his induction into the @nam.edu!
Dan was recognized for his work developing mobile phone-based microscopy to diagnose infectious diseases in developing countries, among other contributions!
Dan was recognized for his work developing mobile phone-based microscopy to diagnose infectious diseases in developing countries, among other contributions!
October 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Congrats to Bioengineering Professor and Blum Center Faculty Director Dan Fletcher for his induction into the @nam.edu!
Dan was recognized for his work developing mobile phone-based microscopy to diagnose infectious diseases in developing countries, among other contributions!
Dan was recognized for his work developing mobile phone-based microscopy to diagnose infectious diseases in developing countries, among other contributions!
Attention, Cal undergrads interested in understanding and tackling poverty!
The Global Poverty & Practice minor is hosting info sessions Sept 25 and Oct 1 on Zoom.
The deadline to declare the GPP minor is Oct 14!
The Global Poverty & Practice minor is hosting info sessions Sept 25 and Oct 1 on Zoom.
The deadline to declare the GPP minor is Oct 14!
September 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Attention, Cal undergrads interested in understanding and tackling poverty!
The Global Poverty & Practice minor is hosting info sessions Sept 25 and Oct 1 on Zoom.
The deadline to declare the GPP minor is Oct 14!
The Global Poverty & Practice minor is hosting info sessions Sept 25 and Oct 1 on Zoom.
The deadline to declare the GPP minor is Oct 14!
And this year's Big Ideas Contest grand prize winner is...
AgriSolar!
Their mobile and scalable solar-powered irrigation system designed for Nigerian smallholder farmers’ accessibility and affordability.
Read more about Grand Prize Pitch Day here: bigideascontest.org/2025/05/15/a...
AgriSolar!
Their mobile and scalable solar-powered irrigation system designed for Nigerian smallholder farmers’ accessibility and affordability.
Read more about Grand Prize Pitch Day here: bigideascontest.org/2025/05/15/a...
May 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
And this year's Big Ideas Contest grand prize winner is...
AgriSolar!
Their mobile and scalable solar-powered irrigation system designed for Nigerian smallholder farmers’ accessibility and affordability.
Read more about Grand Prize Pitch Day here: bigideascontest.org/2025/05/15/a...
AgriSolar!
Their mobile and scalable solar-powered irrigation system designed for Nigerian smallholder farmers’ accessibility and affordability.
Read more about Grand Prize Pitch Day here: bigideascontest.org/2025/05/15/a...
Congratulations to Development Engineering Prof. @agogino.bsky.social on winning an inaugural Berkeley Climate Action Proof-of-Concept Award for climate-focused multimodal methane (CH4) sensing!
bakarclimate.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berk...
bakarclimate.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berk...
April 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Congratulations to Development Engineering Prof. @agogino.bsky.social on winning an inaugural Berkeley Climate Action Proof-of-Concept Award for climate-focused multimodal methane (CH4) sensing!
bakarclimate.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berk...
bakarclimate.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berk...
We have our finalists!
Out of 150+ apps, here are the final 15 student teams of the 2024–25 Big Ideas Contest — from an AI-powered device to help restore Alzheimer’s patients’ autonomy to a sustainable medical product replacing single-use plastics in healthcare:
bigideascontest.org/2025/02/03/u...
Out of 150+ apps, here are the final 15 student teams of the 2024–25 Big Ideas Contest — from an AI-powered device to help restore Alzheimer’s patients’ autonomy to a sustainable medical product replacing single-use plastics in healthcare:
bigideascontest.org/2025/02/03/u...
February 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We have our finalists!
Out of 150+ apps, here are the final 15 student teams of the 2024–25 Big Ideas Contest — from an AI-powered device to help restore Alzheimer’s patients’ autonomy to a sustainable medical product replacing single-use plastics in healthcare:
bigideascontest.org/2025/02/03/u...
Out of 150+ apps, here are the final 15 student teams of the 2024–25 Big Ideas Contest — from an AI-powered device to help restore Alzheimer’s patients’ autonomy to a sustainable medical product replacing single-use plastics in healthcare:
bigideascontest.org/2025/02/03/u...