2/12/04: Jon Bosak, SUN Microsystems.

2/10/04: Ed Cherlin, Simputer evangelist.

by Mohammed Abdoolcarim
The Stanford Daily

Imagine a “smart card” that can track information using a Web-enabled central database. This may seem like a gadget Safeway would use to track your grocery shopping. Or perhaps, a way American Express could learn about your buying habits to cater credit card plans for your shopping needs. But not if this smart card is part of the Digital Vision Fellowship, which allows working professionals to utilize technology in innovative ways.

In this case the smart card is being used to track the date of immunizations in a child’s life in India. Health assistants could then monitor the weekly coverage and identify drug inventory and gaps in treatment.

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2/5/04: Saul Kato, CEO and Founder, WideRay Corporation.

1/29/04: Reid Hoffman, CEO and Co-Founder of LinkedIn.

1/27/04: Doug Hickey, Partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.

1/22/04: Dipak Basu, Executive Director for NetHope

1/15/2004: Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings.

1/13/04: Doug Kalish, Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights.

1/8/04: Glenn Otis Brown, Executive Director of Creative Commons.

By Srikumar Bondyopadhyay
The Financial Express

Today deprivation is not only about lack of food, clothing, shelter and healthcare, but also about information and knowledge gap. In fact, bridging the gap can help one in overcoming the other shortcomings, too.

This is what the inhabitants in seven remote villages adjoining Parvathapur in draught-prone Mahbubnagar district in Andhra Pradesh are banking on. It depends upon the recently launched Computer-On-Wheels for People-Centred Development (COW) project evolving into a self-sustaining, enterprise model after its trial phase, though.

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