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.