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Announcing the USAID/DFID Humanitarian Innovation Initiative

February 21, 2013

USAID and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) are pleased to announce a collaboration to invest in cost-effective breakthrough solutions to humanitarian challenges. Read More.

Work at DIV! Now seeking applicants through the Presidential Innovation Fellows program 

February 8, 2013

DIV is seeking applicants for two positions through the Presidential Innovation Fellows program, a high-profile White House-sponsored program that brings top innovators, entrepreneurs, and change agents into government for 6-12 month “tours of duty” to develop game-changing solutions that benefit the American people. 

Using a biometric database to curb tuberculosis

November 25, 2012 | BBC News

BBC Horizons presenters visit Operation ASHA, a DIV grantee that uses fingerprinting and a computer database to reduce the number of tuberculosis sufferers in India. Watch Part 1 of the Horizons episode here.