Recognitions

Jhonatan Rotberg recognized with the "Future Mind" Award from Discovery Channel and Quo science Magazine, for his work in "creating technologies that transform lives" (October 2010). Click here to see Video Capsule of Mentes Quo+Discovery Awards .
NextLab's Open Courseware (OCW) offering featured as a favorite at OCW's Editor's Picks.
The Smithsonian Institution's Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design has selected three NextLab spinoffs for its renowned National Design Triennial, an exhibition of work by designers and firms who are setting trends and transforming their disciplines. From May 2010 to January 2011, the Next Billion Network, Moca, and Interactive Alerts for Child Pneumonia exhibited (January 2010).
Senior Technology Advisor to the Interamerican Development Bank's Mobile Citizen Program (November 2009).Member of the High-Level Scientific Committee of the Interamerican Development Bank's "Innovation for Inclusive Development" Grant Program (Spring 2008).
Spring 2009 NextLab teams made 40% of the semifinalists of the mobile technologies track of the MIT $100K Business Plan Contest (March 2009); one of them won 2nd place.
Four out of 6 Spring 2009 NextLab teams made the semifinals of the Dell Social Innovation Competition at the University of Texas, Austin (March 2009).
Based on our coursework during Fall 2008, two NextLab students won the IEEE Gold Humanitarian Fellowship (January 09). Only 10 are granted per year around the world.
NextLab spinoff SANA (previously MOCA) has a growing number of international recognitions:
- First place winner of the 2010 m-Health Alliance Award (US$50,000).
- Third place winner of the 2010 Vodafone Wireless Innovation Award (US$100,000).
- Winner of the 2011 Harvard Business School Business Plan Contest, Social Venture Track.
- Winner of the Massachusetts Medical Society 2010 Information Technology Award.
- Featured in 2010 United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals.
- MIT IDEAS 2009 Development Grant Winner.
- Winner of 2 OpenMRS internships to enter "Google Summer of Code". Only 16 awarded.
- Presented at MIT ILP's April 2009 MIT Information and Communication Technology conference.
- Selected to present at the International Conference on Open Source Software in Healthcare.
Our NFC-enabled "Interactive Alerts for Child Pneumonia" project's recognitions are: First place winner of NFC Global Competition 2009, with app named "Best NFC Service of the Year" over 52 other competitors from 21 countries. Prize was €5,000.
Presenting "Using NFC-enabled Mobile Phones for Public Health in Developing Countries" at the Spring 2009 Congress of American Medical Informatics Association (May 2009)Presented "Using NFC-enabled Mobile Phones for Public Health in Developing Countries" at IEEE's 3rd annual NFC Congress 2009 in Hagenberg, Austria (February 2009).

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