Speaker Location:
Cordura 100, Stanford University
3-4:30 pm

“Social Entrepreneurship is as Ginger Rogers is to Fred Astaire: You have to be able to do everything backwards and in high heels.” - Sally Osberg, Skoll Foundation Read the rest of this entry »

Danny Ayala and Gene Gutierrez of Wells Fargo: User-based product development and the global market for remittances. Read the rest of this entry »

Joshua Reeves, Product Manager of Zazzle, will be speaking to the fellows about building a business around user-content and what Zazzle is doing in this space. Zazzle is a customized products marketplace started locally by Stanford graduates.

Thursday, November 10, 2005
4:00pm-5:00pm
Cordura Hall, room 100

From zazzle.com:

” Zazzle is the leading customized products marketplace for consumer enthusiasts to share and celebrate their interests by creating apparel, posters, cards, stamps and more. We combine on-demand manufacturing, a robust community, the largest online collection of customizable digital images and unmatched personalization tools to empower you to create your own products.”

Tech Laureate Tahis Corral will speak with the DV group about her work with CEMINA, a non-profit activit group working with poor Brazilian women to increase their accessibility to ICTs.

Thursday, November 10, 2005
3:00pm-4:00pm
Cordura Hall, room 100

From CEMINA:
“CEMINA, like many other women’s organizations that were created during the 80´s, understood that the moment had come for women to use their voices and assets to occupy a place in society, questioning traditional values, shaking up old structures and streaming new ways forward.

We embraced this mission, investing in the idea of “empowering the voice”. That was it! We opened a channel which enabled not only us, but also our partners, the women from Rio de Janeiro and from Brazil as a whole, to speak candidly about women’s issues. The radio program “Women Speak Up,” our first initiative, was created in 1988. The program was initiated by a group of volunteers and soon acquired a more professional profile. It was replicated and continued broadcasting for 10 years, transforming women of the street into communicators of all ages and serving as a model for numerous similar initiatives. These radio programs grew out of the training courses that CEMINA first promoted in 1992.

From a simple seed, CEMINA has blossomed into a fragrant flower. The organization is, well recognized not only in Brazil but also abroad throughseed, a fragrant flower has blossomed (I like that! the innovative and coherent way in which it has worked towards fulfilling its mission. While CEMINA has received many awards, we refused to stop there. After occupying the radio waves from the North to the South of Brazil, we are working now to apply what we have learned through the radio to the new technologies for communication and information (ICTs) in the cyber space

The proposal to use the technology to expand and broaden the power of the radio to penetrate people’s hearts is at the core of this strategy. The program “Women Speak Up” has acquired the dimension of a radio itself. It is broadcasted 24 hours a day through the following Internet address: www.radiofalamulher.com. Our programs and campaigns, previously available only by mail in the form of cassettes or CDs, now can be heard and downloaded free of charge through the radio site.

The members of the Women’s Radio Network, women who have attended our training courses, now have access to the Cyberela Network, as we acquire more resources and funds to promote the digital inclusion of these popular communicators and their respective radio stations. The benefits promoted by the radio for their respective communities have expanded in the form of “Telecenters”. These are special locations in the community that provide women with access to the Internet to help promote digital inclusion. It is our commitment to ensure that women will not, once again, be left behind and lack access and opportunities to this important tool for social development.”

John Sherry speaks to RDVP about his current projects at Intel’s Digital Health Group. Read the rest of this entry »

Sohaib Abbasi, President & Chief Executive Officer of Informatica. Read the rest of this entry »

Akhtar Badshah, Microsoft Community Affairs: “The value of technology is when you bring social and economic change.” Read the rest of this entry »

Marko Ahtisaari, NOKIA: “The challenge: How do we design to be ’sometimes off’ in a world that is itself ‘always on’?” Read the rest of this entry »

Roberto Milk shared his experiences starting his company, Novica , linking consumers and artisans. Read the rest of this entry »

Dipak Basu’s project, Ganges Delta Network, has evolved into a newly established NGO in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) called Linkage India. Linkage’s mission is to to create livelihood opportunities for unemployed and marginalized poor. Linkage will fulfill its mission through computerized resource centers for rural entrepreneurs, to train and empower them with access to markets and capital. Read the rest of this entry »

Tony Perkins, ALWAYSON: “Is the Internet Under-Hyped? HELL YEAH!” Read the rest of this entry »

Please join the Reuters Digital Vision Program for a reception to welcome the
2006 Digital Vision Fellows

Tuesday, 4 October 2005
5:30pm - 8:00pm
Cordura Hall, room 100
Stanford University
Directions

Light refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP to: events(at) rdvp (dot) org

We invite you to meet the 2006 Fellows and learn more about their projects.
Reuters Digital Vision Program (RDVP) Fellows work on interdisciplinary projects that utilize information and communication technologies (ICTs) to address real needs in underserved communities. RDVP Fellows bring a unique understanding of the realities of a particular emerging market or community to the Program. During their nine-months on campus, they collaborate with Stanford faculty and students, private sector firms, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to translate this market knowledge into culturally relevant and sustainable product and service concepts. The end goal of the RDVP is two-fold: accelerate community development and acquire valuable market knowledge.

Jim Fruchterman will be speaking with the 2006 DV Fellows.
Location: DV Lounge, Cordura Hall

Jim Fruchterman is the President, CEO and Founder of Benetech. A technology entrepreneur and engineer, Fruchterman has been a rocket scientist, founded two of the foremost optical character recognition companies, and developed a successful line of reading machines for the blind. His efforts at Benetech concentrate on developing technology tools for human rights groups and people with disabilities. Fruchterman has been active in public service, with two stints on U.S. federal advisory committees, and has won numerous awards for his work in the social sector. He was named a Schwab Social Entrepreneur of 2003, which has included speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Fruchterman believes that technology is the ultimate leveler, allowing disadvantaged people achieve more equality in society.

Location: Cordura 100, Stanford University

Eric Auchard is Reuters chief technology correspondent.

Eric Auchard began covering politics for Reuters in 1992, and switched to technology writing in 1993. He has covered the rise of the Internet and technology industries ranging from semiconductors to software to mobile communications. His current focus is on the Internet, emerging technologies and venture capital. He is based in San Francisco. For four years through 2004, he was Reuters global technology correspondent, coordinating the news organization’s technology, telecommunciations and media coverage around the globe.

Eric, 44, grew up in Silicon Valley. He attended the University of California, Berkeley and Birmingham University in England, where he studied history and journalism. You can read some of his latest stories at: http://today.reuters.com/news/newssearchresults.aspx?srch=auchard&qtype=a/

Helen Wang ‘05 makes progress with her DVF project e-Mobilizer, with concentrations on defining eMobilizer’s market, developing a working prototype, and further exploring partnerships.
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Moulaye Ely Diarra recently presented his project, Virtual Agricultural Product Market (VAPM), to Mali’s National Agricultural Committee. VAPM is a virtual agricultural information center that connects farmers and traders. Moulaye will be conducting special training with a sample of eight enumerators during the next few months. Read the rest of this entry »

Information about the 2005-06 DV Fellows, who will be arriving at Stanford in mid-September, will be posted on our website soon.

Applications for the 2006-07 academic year will be available by December 2005. You can be kept informed about the application process by subscribing to the RDVP-Updates mailing list.

05/09/05: Motoo Kusakabe spoke to the fellows about “ICT Strategies for human development”. Read the rest of this entry »

05/04/05: Karen Mullarkey spoke to the Fellows about “Photo Journalism.” Read the rest of this entry »