January 21. 2011 Ramona Albert joins the $300 House advisory group.
January 20. 2011 Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi, gives the $300 House a mention!
January 18. 2011 Rafael Smith is now an advisor for the $300 House.
January 17. 2011 Stuart L. Hart is now an advisor for the $300 House.
January 17. 2011 Manoj Sinha of Husk Power Systems is now an advisor for the $300 House.
January 14. 2011 Umair Haque is now an advisor for the $300 House.
January 13. 2011 The $300 House gets a favorable mention in The Economist blog.
January 10. 2011 Dow Corning CEO + Chairman Stephanie A. Burnsblogs about the $300 House on the Harvard Business Review blog
January 07. 2011 Students at RMCAD.edu to design $300 Houses. [stay tuned!]
January 05. 2011 Harvard Business Review's Scott Berinato is now an official advisor to the $300 House.
January 04. 2011 3 new advisors: David Sands - the world's leading bamboo architect; Sunil Suri of Menlo Capital Group; and Arun Lal of miloka.com
January 02. 2011 VG's 2011 Agenda in the Harvard Business Review is our $300 House!
The idea of the $300 House originated with Christian Sarkar, an entrepreneur and marketer who came up with the idea while working on a project in Haiti, helping the Solar Electric Light Fund raise money to solar-electrify clinics for Partners In Health. To promote the idea of the $300 House, Christian submitted a blog post to one of his clients at the time, Professor Vijay "V.G." Govindarajan at Dartmouth, and suggested they send it to the Harvard Business Review. As spokesman for the idea, VG was awarded the Thinkers50 "Breakthrough Idea Award" in 2011.
Thanks to Harvard Business Review and Jovoto, the $300 House project took off and today there are dedicated individuals and businesses working on this across the globe:
- Dartmouth has an initiative working on the project under Jack Wilson and VG
- Mahindra are working on a "whole village" concept in India and Africa
- IKEA Foundation developed a refugee flat-pack
- Worldhaus has over 50 houses constructed in India
- Individuals like Harvey Lacey, David Sands, Pete Abrams, and P. Stouter continue their passionate quest to design affordable houses for the poor
- The Emergent Institute, led by Stuart Hart is actively training entrepreneurs and investing in affordable housing
- UC Berkely and ReMaterials have teamed up to create a new low-cost roofing material
The $300 House still needs you: students and teachers, individuals, universities, institutions, businesses, and governmental agencies - learn howyou can participate!
1) turn this idea a reality,
and
2) test it out in the field.
We are continuously building and rebuilding an online collective - with passionate, caring participants who choose to collaborate to make this project a reality across the planet.
Chairul Tanjung, the Chairman of the National Economic Committee of Indonesia, joins the $300 House as an advisor.
