We are now accepting applications for the 2005-06. For this academic year the Digital Vision Program will focus on applicants whose work is in the following broad categories:

• Micro-finance, remittance, and alternative currency software
• Low cost Internet connectivity networks, devices and interfaces
• Rural telemedicine networks, equipment, and health services
• Community-building “social” software and learning tools

The application deadline is Tuesday, March 15, 2005. Please visit the Become a Fellow section for additional details.

Digital Vision Scholarships

We are pleased to offer six Digital Vision Scholarships for 2005-06, courtesy of the Reuters Foundation, the Google Corporation and the Advanced Micro Devices Corporation.  Digital Vision Scholarships help defray the living expenses for the duration of the 9-month program. They are awarded in addition to the Stanford University Fellowship funded by the Reuters Foundation. Recipients are from developing world countries. For eligibility requirements see the Become a Fellow section.

Twenty-Five Global Innovators Recognized for Work to Use Technology for the Benefit of Humanity

SAN JOSE, California, USA, November 16, 2004 – NetHope, an information technology consortium of fifteen of the world’s leading humanitarian organizations, was one of several organizations honored by The Tech Museum Awards: Technology Benefiting Humanity on November 10, 2004. NetHope received the Agilent Equality Award for their use of technology to benefit mankind.

“This award recognizes the impact computers and communications can have in making a significant difference on relief, development and environmental efforts of humanitarian organizations,” said Dipak Basu, Executive Director of NetHope and a Cisco Systems Leadership Fellow. “Our passion is to accelerate and scale the adoption of information technology for humanity, which in turn helps tens of thousands of aid workers in the developing world, and to serve hundreds of thousands if not millions of their beneficiaries.”

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