The International Development Innovation Network (IDIN) empowers a diverse, global network of innovators to design, develop, and disseminate low-cost technologies to improve the lives of people living in poverty. IDIN is a consortium of university and partners led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and funded by the US Agency for International Development’s U.S. Global Development Lab.

IDIN fosters and supports its network through a variety of channels including design summits, local innovation centers, a research program, and student engagement.

Instituto Peabiru is a Civil Society Organization of Public Interest (OSCIP), established in 1998 with headquarters in Belém, Pará, Brazil. The organization’s purpose is to address the socio-economic and environmental issues related to the long-term sustainability of the Brazilian Amazon. We work alongside communities and local civil society organizations to increase capacity of residents to exercise their citizenship to the fullest extent and enjoy the benefits of a sustainable economic model while promoting conservation of the Amazon. We facilitate transformation processes which can occur within communities, civil society organizations and enterprises, and we strive to address exclusion and inequality.

Veracidade as one of our main partner is a Civil Society Organization of Public Interest, established in 2012, in São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil, working out with urban permaculture and popular education, concerned to build with people a social and ecological thought in all society.

The Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica is an institution of higher education and advanced research with emphasis in aerospace science and technology maintained by the Brazilian Federal Government with the support of the Brazilian Air Force. It is located in São José dos Campos, Brazil. ITA is recognized as a higher education institution aiming at conscious discipline practice, ethics, critical attitude, social responsibility and technical development based on human being values.