Organizers
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8 Local, 4 International
Our team, selected through the application process, based on skills, experience and knowledge, is made up of a group of people who are committed, creative, dreamers, believers in collective construction, in social innovation, and in design for international and local development.
Ikalany Betty
Betty Ikalany is an alumni of IDDS 2014 Arusha Tanzania and IDDS Cookstove 2016 Uganda. She is also a trainer of trainers in creative capacity building and Scales up Fellow of International Development Innovation Network (IDIN) 2015 and longtime training partner of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT DLAB).
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Betty is also the founder of Appropriate Energy Saving Technologies (AEST) LTD a women-led social enterprise that creates livelihood opportunities for women in the cook stove and fuel value chain in Eastern Uganda. The enterprise aims to eradicate over-dependence on wood fuel in Uganda by making organic charcoal for cooking from agricultural waste as an alternative to wood fuel among households and institutions in urban and peri-urban areas in Eastern Uganda
Amen Emmanuel Tebele
Amen is a Creative Capacity Building Trainer for Kulika Uganda, Was a participant in international development design summit (IDDS) – Zambia 2013, attended rethink relief summit in Pader 2014, Helped in organizing IDDS cookstoves in 2015 from Kulika
Training Centre Uganda and Creative Capacity Building Training of Trainers in 2016.
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He's currently the Ecological Training Centre Manager with Kulika Uganda based in Wakiso district. He also worked as a Districts coordinator coordinating Maracha and Alebtong districts in Northern Uganda under the Creative Capacity Building Research Project for 3 years with Kulika Uganda implemented in partnership with Makerere University and International Food Policy Research Institute - USA.
Hadijah Nantambi
Hadijah is a social entrepreneur and co-founder of Ecolife Foods in Uganda. She is a private horticulture consultant since 2015 specializing in designing post-harvest technologies and training post-harvest trainers.
Liz Hunt
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Liz has an aerospace engineering degree, so sometimes jokes that she’s a blonde rocket scientist. Over the years, while employed by companies like frog and Google, she developed a passion for and expertise in technology, user experience design, and business strategy. She loves learning something new every day (whether it’s work-related or not). When Liz isn’t in the office, you’ll find her outdoors—most likely on or under the water. She was a participant in IDDS Botswana 2016 and one of the organizers in IDDS Botswana 2018, so is super excited to be joining the organizing team of IDDS Uganda 2019!
Abhinav Dey
Abhinav is a maker at heart. He has founded a sustainable livelihoods design enterprise since 2016, Free design, working in rural areas across 5 states in India. The initiatives include rural maker spaces, co-creating assistive devices with differently abled, designing water conserving farming methods,agro-processing, water purification. The work has been supported by India Inclusion Foundation, Plus Trust Foundation, International Development Innovation Network, GIZ, SELCO Foundation, Red Cross (Geneva).
Jessica Huang
Jessica's first IDDS was in 2008, which changed her life. She has since helped organize summits in the US, Ghana, Brazil, India, Colombia, and Guatemala. Jessica is beyond thrilled to be joining the Uganda organizing team, thinking about ways to create a supportive learning environment for this participatory design experience. She enjoys working with the incredibly diverse and collaborative IDDS/IDIN community, and is looking forward to welcoming the new members this year.
Jessica has worked as an instructor at the MIT D-Lab and completed a Master's in Learning, Design and Technology from Stanford, where worked on ways to expand access to educational resources in the Ayilo refugee camps in Adjumani, Uganda. Jessica is currently a doctoral candidate in public health at Harvard with a concentration in humanitarian studies, for which she is exploring ways to promote health education in the Kakuma refugee camps in Turkana, Kenya.