Benjamin Boutboul

May 10, 2020

MIT Africa Takes on COVID-19: Snapshot of the weekend’s solutions

Last weekend, over 1,250 participants from 106 countries — including 44 in Africa — participated in the MIT COVID19 Challenge: Africa Takes on COVID-19. Over the course of 48 hours, 174 teams proposed an equal number of solutions to tackle the most pressing issues faced by many on the African…

Africa

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Africa

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Dec 16, 2019

Why clean cooking matters? A portrait of the women of Côte d’Ivoire

In August 2019, sponsored by the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, Clea Kolster and Benjamin Boutboul traveled to Côte d’Ivoire to research the potential for clean cooking solutions. They met with over 100 households in four areas of Abidjan and two more rural areas in Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire’s…

Environment

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Why clean cooking matters? A portrait of the women in Côte d’Ivoire

Environment

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Benjamin Boutboul

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Benjamin is a soon-to-be graduate of MIT Sloan where he is earning his MBA. He has previously worked in off-grid solar in Uganda, Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire.

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