DVP is featured on the public radio program Tech Nation with Dr. Moira Gunn. Read the rest of this entry »

DVP is featured on the public radio program Tech Nation with Dr. Moira Gunn. Read the rest of this entry »

2006 Fellow Robert Maranga was featured in Red Herring magazine as one of six “Unselfish Technologists”. Read the rest of this entry »

DVP Alumni Njideka Harry ‘04, Rajendra Nimje ‘04, and Rajeswari Pingalo ‘02 have been selected as finalists in the 2006 Stockholm Challenge Event for the world’s best ICT projects. Read the rest of this entry »

Seminar details
Cordura Hall, room 100
3:30pm-5:00pm

Speaker biography
Dorothy Hamachi Berry is Vice President, Human Resources and Administration, for the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. She is playing a leadership role in an organizational change effort to create a flexible, people-oriented IFC that is able to respond to changing client demands and to overcome internal boundaries.

Under Ms. Berry’s leadership, the IFC has received the board of director’s endorsement of innovative compensation practices that are unique in the World Bank Group and are designed to help create a performance culture. These include:

• a long term incentive program to provide monetary awards to teams and individuals for outstanding developmental and financial results over time
• performance awards programs which reward organizational units, teams, and individuals for exceptional delivery against annual performance objectives
• a competency-based career progression scheme for investment officers which is designed to strengthen the skills and knowledge base of IFC’s core occupation.

Prior to joining IFC, from March 1996 to December 1998, Ms. Berry was Vice President, Human Resources, for the World Bank, where she led the human resource policy reform, approved by the board in March 1998, a significant change in personnel and compensation policies for the Bank group.

Ms. Berry has extensive experience in managing significant change in complex organizational environments, both in the public and private sectors. Immediately before joining the World Bank Group, she was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management at the U.S. Department of Education, where she was responsible for a broad range of management functions, including human resources, information technology, labor relations, facilities management, and business process reengineering. She played a key role in a government-wide review to improve customer service and efficiency of the federal government, and has held senior-level positions in the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and Texaco, Inc. Ms. Berry was born and raised in Kamakura, Japan. She holds a Bachelors degree from Cornell University and a Master’s degree in public administration from New York University. She is married to Andrew Clark Berry and has a 14-year old son, Andy.

Seminar details:
9 March 2006, 3:00pm-4:30pm
Cordura Hall, room 100

Speaker bio:

Barbara Waugh is the Co-Founder of World eInclusion with Hewlett Packard.

From her biography:

A longtime radical activist, Barabara Waugh joined Hewlett-Packard 20 years ago, and used her successive positions as company recruiting manager, and personnel director and worldwide change manager for the renowned HP Labs to transform HP’s corporate culture. Along the way she invented and discovered a set of “radical tools” for introducing practical change and energizing altruism at all levels of the organization. The book has received enthusiastic reviews from Dow-Jones to Fast Company to the San Francisco Chronicle; and has been the subject of dozens of talk shows and interviews. Barbara’s work has been featured in many publications on organizational change, including The Dance of Change; The Rebel Rules; The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, Surfing the Edge of Chaos; Fast Company, Business 2.0, and Strategy & Business.

Determined from the beginning to put teeth into the idea of “doing well by doing good,” Barbara developed HP’s breakthrough programs for women and minority recruiting, mentored outstanding people throughout HP, and received Management Legacy awards from both the HP Technical Women’s Conference and the HP Deaf and Hard of Hearing Forum. She co-founded HP’s Sustainability Network, as well as e-Inclusion, a business initiative and program to provide the four billion people at the bottom of the global economic pyramid access to the social and economic opportunities of technology. Barbara is currently a researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, and an HP internal consultant and coach. HP Lab’s function is to deliver breakthrough new and advanced technologies and strategies that provide a competitive advantage for HP, and contribute to the world.

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Seminar details
2 March 2006, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Cordura Hall, room 100

About the seminar:
Michael Keller is with the Stanford University Librarian’s Office and will be speaking to RDVP about Digital Libraries, Google Scholar, and other current initiatives.

Speaker bio
At Stanford, Michael A. Keller is the Ida M. Green University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, Publisher of HighWire Press, and Publisher of the Stanford University Press. These titles touch on his major professional preoccupations: commitment to support of research, teaching and learning; effective deployment of information technology hand-in-hand with materials; active involvement in the evolution and growth of scholarly communication. He may be best known at present for his distinctively entrepreneurial style of librarianship. As University Librarian, he endeavors to champion deep collecting of traditional library materials (especially of manuscript and archival materials) concurrent with full engagement in emerging information technologies.
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