10/31/03: Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute. “Bad technologies are worth more dead than alive.”

10/16/03: Svi2/Digital Vision Fellowship Program joint seminar with focus on Latin America.

By Jon Fortt
Mercury News

Brij Kothari was watching a subtitled film for a Spanish class seven years ago when he had an epiphany: Words on a television screen might help millions of people in his native India learn to read better.

Kothari’s idea — stripping subtitles along the bottom of popular Bollywood Indian music videos — was enough to earn him a nomination for the third annual Tech Museum Awards, which were presented at a gala Wednesday night in San Jose. Research has suggested that the Hindi-subtitled music videos improve the reading skills of barely literate viewers.

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10/13/03: Seminar with Raj Pingali, DV Fellow from 2001-02, visiting from India with updates about her COW project.

10/2/03: Seminar with Bill Davidow, founding partner of Mohr, Davidow Ventures.