MIT researchers launch technology evaluations for global development in Mali, India
The Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE) at MIT has announced its 2017 product evaluations. Over the next year, the interdisciplinary program will bring together faculty, staff, and students from across MIT to evaluate two new product families — vegetable cooling and storage technology, and food packaging — and to kick off a new collaboration to better understand decision support for post-harvest storage technologies. CITE, which is based in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, was created in 2012 with support from the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Higher Education Solutions Network. It is a pioneering program dedicated to developing methodologies for product evaluation globally. CITE works closely with various partners — including Mercy Corps, the World Vegetable Center, the Self Employed Women’s Association, United Cerebral Palsy, and the Human Engineering Research Labs at the University of Pittsburgh — to identify technologies that could benefit from rigorous evaluation. CITE...