DV Workshop:
Date: October 31, 2006

Speaker bio:

Ken Banks joins the Program as a Collaboration Fellow, working with other DVP Fellows to help design and develop their projects. He has a degree in social anthropology and development studies and brings with him over 20 years of high-tech experience from the private, corporate and non-profit sectors. Over the past thirteen years Ken has worked on numerous conservation and development projects in Zambia, Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique and for the past three has run his own consultancy - kiwanja.net - specializing in the application of mobile technology in the non-profit sector. Ken project managed the European rollout of the first conservation-based mobile portal in 2003/2004 with Vodafone and has more recently worked with the likes of Microsoft, Fauna & Flora International and United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) on the practical application of technology for social and environmental benefit.

DV Seminar:
Location: Cordura 100
Date: October 26, 2006
Time: 3:30-5:00

Speaker bio:
Doug came to the Lemelson Foundation in April 2005, and is primarily responsible for developing the Foundation’s portfolio of technology dissemination projects, as well as overseeing the Foundation’s impact monitoring and evaluation. Doug brings with him 20 years of experience living and working in developing countries in Africa and Asia. After serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon, he worked for nearly 17 years with CARE, one of the foremost international relief and development agencies. He worked as a field representative for CARE in Niger, Mali and Bangladesh, and then served as the CARE country director in Niger and Angola. Doug holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Michigan and a master of science degree in natural resource policy analysis from the University of Washington. He speaks French and Portuguese.

DV Workshop:
Date: October 24, 2006

Internal Meeting

Ventures in Social Entrepeneurship
(in conjunction with the Haas Center for Public Service)
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Haas Center
Stanford University

DV Workshop: Les Cottrell
Date: October 17, 2006

Speaker bio:
Les Cottrell left the University of Manchester, England in 1967 with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics to pursue fame and fortune on the Left Coast of the U.S.A. He joined SLAC as a research physicist in High Energy Physics, focusing on real-time data acquisition and analysis in the 1990 Nobel prize winning group that discovered the quark. In 1973/3, he spent a year’s leave
of absence as a visiting scientist at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and in 1979/80 at the IBM U.K. Laboratories at Hursley, England, where he obtained United States Patent 4,688,181 for a a dynamic graphical cursor. He is currently the Assistant Director of the SLAC Scientific Computing and Computing Services group and lead the computer networking and telecommunications areas. He is also a member of the Energy Sciences Network Site Coordinating Committee (ESCC) and the chairman of the ESnet Network Monitoring Task Force.

Les was a leader of the effort that, in 1994, resulted in the first Internet connection to mainland China. He is also the
leader of the DoE sponsored Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring (IEPM) effort. In 2002/3, He was the co-PI of teams that captured the Internet2 Land Speed Record twice, a feat that was entered in the Guinness Book of World Records and also earned us the CENIC 2003 On the Road to a Gigabit, Biggest Fastest in the West award. In 2003, 2004, and for a third
time in 2005 he was the co-leader of the teams that won the SuperComputing Bandwidth Challenge for the maximum bandwidth utilization.

Seminar details:
Thursday, 12 October, 2006
3:30pm-5:00pm PST
Cordura 100

Seminar speaker:
Scott Heiferman was named the 2004 M.I.T. Technology Review “Innovator of the Year” for his work as co-founder and CEO of Meetup. Meetup first came to fame as the grassroots backbone of the Howard Dean presidential campaign and has since revolutionized how millions of people use the internet to organize local community groups with real-life meetings. Meetup’s investors include eBay, Omidyar Network, DFJ, Esther Dyson, and others. Scott also started Fotolog (a billion-monthly-pageview online photo community) and i-traffic (the first ad agency dedicated to online media). Previously, Scott was “Interactive Marketing Frontiersman” at Sony, where he created Sony’s first consumer online presence. In 2005, Scott received the Jane Addams Award from the National Conference on Citizenship. He graduated from The University of Iowa and has posted a photo on his personal Fotolog every day since 2001. http://scott.heiferman.com

Seminar details:
Date and time: 10.10.2006 at 3:30pm

Speaker Bio:
Jonathan Dugan, Ph.D., is founder and CEO of Matson Systems, a software startup building web-based collaboration tools.

Jonathan has worked as a consultant providing business strategy and technical implementation on the topic of building and maintaining community.

Previously, Jonathan worked in business development at SRI International in Menlo Park. He is a co-founder and director of BioE2E, a non-profit group focused on building and supporting a community of entrepreneurs in life sciences. He is an advisor for the Stanford/MIT venture lab and a member of the board of directors for the Life Sciences Society.

Jonathan completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2002 in computer science and medicine.

Please join the Digital Vision Program for a reception to welcome the
2007 Digital Vision Fellows

Tuesday, 5 October 2006
6:00pm - 8:30pm
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 2007 Fellows and learn more about their projects.
The Digital Vision Program (DVP) Fellows work on interdisciplinary projects that utilize information and communication technologies (ICTs) to address real needs in underserved communities. DVP 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 DVP is two-fold: accelerate community development and acquire valuable market knowledge.

Seminar details:
Thursday, 05 October, 2006
3:00pm-5:00pm PST
Cordura 100

Seminar speaker:
Susan Davis leads Ashoka’s Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship and oversees Ashoka’s expansion to the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. She serves on the Ashoka board committee that selects social entrepreneurs around the world. She is a founding board member and now chairs the Grameen Foundation, a microfinance and technology organization to support the poor. She also serves on the boards of Project Enterprise and Aid to Artisans and the Advisory Council of Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative. Susan has served as senior advisor to the Director General of the International Labor Organization 8 years. Susan was the Executive Director of the Women’s Environment & Development Organization, a global women’s advocacy organization that pioneered new mechanisms for the global women’s movement to influence negotiations at global United Nations meetings from 1993-1998. Prior to that, she led innovative initiatives aimed at scaling up microfinance institutions that were owned and governed by poor women at Women’s World Banking and the Ford Foundation in Bangladesh. During her four and half years in Dhaka, she helped to start Ashoka in Bangladesh and served as its first volunteer representative. Susan served as the Assistant Director of the first quasi-public export trading company launched in the 1980s by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Susan was educated at Georgetown, Harvard and Oxford universities and is from Louisiana.

Seminar details:
Thursday, 5 October, 2006
11:00a.m.-12:30p.m. PST
Cordura Lounge

Seminar speaker:
Ajit Jaokar is the author of the book ‘Mobile web 2.0′ and is also a member of the web2.0 workgroup. Currently, he plays an advisory role to a number of mobile start-ups in the UK and Scandinavia. He also works with the government and trade missions of a number of countries including South Korea and Ireland.

He is a regular speaker at technology events including Real-World AJAX (June 2006 - New York http://www.ajaxseminar.com ) and AJAXWorld Conference & Expo (Oct 2006 Santa Clara http://www.ajaxworldexpo.com ).

He also featured recently on CNN money. Ajit chairs Oxford University’s Next generation mobile applications panel. He is the founder and CEO of a publishing company – Futuretext (http://www.futuretext.com )

Ajit lives in London, UK, but has three nationalities (British, Indian and New Zealander) and is proud of all three. He is a member of the RSA – The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

Workshop details:
Tuesday, 3 October, 2006

Workshop speaker:
Richard Brewer is the Senior Manager for Market Research Intelligence at Intuit’s Small Business Division (SBD), which includes its QuickBooks and Quicken product lines, in the firm’s Mountain View, CA headquarters. In this role, Mr. Brewer helps the Intuit SBD senior leadership understand the key industry and competitive trends affecting the organization through on-going market research and analysis of studies from the industry analyst,
financial analyst, and trade press communities.

Before joining Intuit, Mr. Brewer served as the Director of Consulting at Federal Sources, Inc. in Tysons Corner, VA, where Mr. Brewer helped high-tech clients increase their government IT product and service sales through federal market intelligence consulting, government contract and legislative analysis, and competitive landscape research.

Prior to Federal Sources, Mr. Brewer served as Director of Software Industry Research in the Tokyo, Japan office of International Data Corporation (IDC). Preceding his assignment in Tokyo, Mr. Brewer served as the Director of IT and Network Services Research at IDC’s Framingham, MA headquarters where he conducted market assessment studies for firms including: AT&T, MCI, Sprint, BellSouth, SBC, Lucent, Cisco, and Symantec.

Before joining IDC, Mr. Brewer served as a Statistical and Policy Analyst for a subcontractor on NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) project in Landover, MD. Prior to this, Mr. Brewer worked as a PR and marketing Account Associate at Cunningham Communication in Santa Clara, CA for clients including 3Com Enterprise Networking and Kodak Software.

Mr. Brewer holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) in International Communications Policy from the Fletcher School of Tufts University, and Bachelors of Arts in Economics and Asian Studies from Cornell University.