The International Development Design Summit (IDDS) is a collaboration to find cost effective technology solutions for the third world.
[2] It is held annually to study problems in the developing world and create real, workable solutions to them.
[3] "I believe very strongly that solutions to problems in the developing world are best created in collaboration with the people who will be using them", said founder Amy Smith .
[3] "By bringing this group of people together, we get an incredibly broad range of backgrounds and experiences.
[3] WorldChanging reported on August 14, 2007 that the results from the first International Development Design Summit (IDDS) had been very positive with end products including an off-grid refrigeration unit tailored for rural areas using an evaporative cooling method to store perishable food and a low-cost greenhouse from recycled and widely available materials.