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  Students

  Gifted university students from emerging regions eager to learn Internet and mobile technologies and experience entrepreneurship.

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  Instructors

  Sourced from the MIT community: graduate and undergraduate students from CSAIL, Sloan and other disciplines.

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  Curriculum

  Incubator courses that focus on mobile software development and technology entrepreneurship experience.

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  Impact

  Course projects that develop into successful startups along with a transfer of teaching skills and curriculum to partner universities.

What is AITI?

AITI is a multidisciplinary group of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that promotes development in emerging regions by cultivating young technology entrepreneurs. AITI develops curriculum materials, software technologies, platforms, and networks that enable undergraduate students to innovate in the area of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

AITI Programs

AITI partners with universities and organizes advanced courses taught by MIT student/instructors. Our courses focus on mobile and Internet technologies, and are structured so that our students are awakened to the commercial possibilities of the technologies. Components of the course include detailed technical curriculum, funded business competitions, guest lectures, and networking events.

Scaling Impact

AITI scales its impact by transferring teaching expertise to our partner universities so that they can incorporate components of our courses with little intervention. AITI helps to organize extension courses at partner universities instructed by former AITI students. Furthermore, AITI creates online course material so that we can reach students across the globe.

Why Mobile Technology?

A mobile phone is not only a communication device, it also represents the most accessible computing device to the majority of humans. Mobile phones are tools that can promote development by inspiring new business opportunities and increasing efficiencies. Local entrepreneurs' innovative use of mobile technology is at the heart of this revolution.

AITI Igniting Mobile Enterprise Video

This short video suggests the creative sparks that ignite the students and teachers of AITI around the world. AITI Program Head Michael Gordon reviews the aims of the program and the ways cross-cultural learning stimulates enterprising ideas for students in developing nations. One new start-up, HeHe, was founded just last year by Clarisse Iribagiza who with her team cite the value of AITI in helping them self-identify as an enterprise with a future. The producer is currently following HeHe, Ltd. to reveal the process of innovation in a series of webisodes.

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