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.

DV Seminar:
Thursday, 28 September, 2006

Seminar speaker:
Brooke Partridge is the founder and principal consultant of Vital Wave Consulting, Inc. With 15 years of international and high-technology business experience, she provides a unique set of skills and knowledge for leading large-scale efforts towards business growth in emerging markets. She manages an organization with broad and deep expertise in terms of geography, business function and technology to provide clients with comprehensive support in the areas of market research, solution design, business case development, and pilot commercialization.

Previously, Partridge was the Business Director of the Emerging Market Solutions Organization at HP where she built the team that designed and commercialized HP’s first technology solutions for developing economies. In this capacity, she led all business functions including R&D, Marketing, Support, Supply Chain, Sales and Business Intelligence. Partridge directed the creation of a global segmentation model for emerging markets as well as the market sizing and business case analysis of a wide variety of emerging market solutions. As a result, her team successfully designed, built and globally commercialized the HP Multi-user 441 Desktop Solution. To support HP’s emerging markets business activities, Partridge led the creation of an ecosystem of worldwide, multi-lateral partnerships with multinational and emerging market corporations, global and local non-government organizations and government entities. Her contributions helped establish HP as the IT leader in emerging market business.

Throughout her career, Partridge has brought to market a wide variety of innovative technology solutions, managing all business functions and maintaining a strong emphasis on business intelligence and market research. In the HP Pavilion PC business she was responsible for the design and development of their first interactive support software program that shipped into 12 language regions around the world. In this process, she managed the global market research – primary and secondary – to validate and address the varying support needs of PC end users around the world. Earlier in her career, she conducted on-site research at the United Nations in Santiago, Chile to assess the market potential across Latin America for MIPS Computer Systems. She also conducted market research and analysis in Mexico for Syntex Pharmaceuticals.

Partridge has lived and worked in several developing economies, including Perú, Chile and México, and spent extended periods of time in Western Europe and in South Africa. She lectured in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University and holds a Master’s of Pacific International Affairs from UC San Diego, as well as a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and International Relations from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

2005 fellow Dipak Basu’s NPO Anudip has seen its first graduating class of 20 from a LINKAGE training class at the Asha Welfare Society in Namkhana. The course is designed to teach information technology to those in rural India so they can get employment and gradually uplift the community. Read the rest of this entry »

The GIS model developed by Farai as a fellow is now being used by Population Services International in Zimbabwe. This model is now being used effectively to monitor and plan targeted HIV/ AIDS interventions in Zimbabwe. Amazing program outputs are being achieved through application of this model. Interventions are now being directed to the people who need them most. His abstract on this model was accepted for an oral presentation, at the International Conference to be held in Toronto, Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

India’s farmers switch faith to mobile phones

FOR centuries, Indian farmers have relied on ancient rituals, the study of wind direction and local gossip to ascertain the annual onset of the unpredictable monsoon rains. Deciding when to sow their crops and when to take their produce to market is based on experience and instinct. Read the rest of this entry »

Reuters ‘06 Fellow, Erik Sundelöf was interviewed on Thursday, July 27 on CNN’s American Morning regarding the cell phone news blogs and specifically “Lebanon-Israel Conflict Via Cell Phones,” the blog documenting the Lebanon-Israel conflict. Read the rest of this entry »

by Mark Glaser
MediaShift

Perhaps some day in the not so distant future, every person on the planet who has a cell phone camera will be able to snap a photo of a newsworthy event happening in front of them and easily send it to a web clearinghouse of such news images. That’s the dream of Erik Sundelof (pictured at left), a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, a program that aims to develop technology to advance humanitarian goals in underserved communities.

For the full text of this blog click here.

Erik Sundelöf, Class of 2006 was recently featured in the PBS Media Blog, Mark Glaser’s MediaShift. In a blog titled “Stanford Fellow Imagines Every Cell Phone as Citizen Media Outlet,” Glaser describes Erik’s project as well as including an edited transcript of a discussion between the two about the vision, logistics, and future of cell phones as a media outlet. Read the rest of this entry »

Michael Chertok and Adam Tolnay have articles featured on the Global Knowledge Partnership’s website Beyond Tunis (http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkpbeyondtunis).

Read the rest of this entry »

Seminar details:
Thursday, 1 June 2006
3:30pm-5:00pm PST
Cordura 100

Seminar speaker:
Audrey Codera is the Chairman of the Philippine Youth Employment Network,
Inc., an organization aimed at bringing employment and employability to
grassroots youth in the Philippines (www.yesweb.org) relying heavily on
youth volunteers and the use of ICT. She works with various sectors of the
Philippine government, the Private sector such as the Philippine Chamber of
Commerce and Industry, NGOs and international institutions such as the
International Labor Organization in Manila in ensuring that youth
employment are included in policy-making. She has been the Youth Employment
Summit - Philippines Country Coordinator since August 2003. She started a
micro-finance company with a specific credit window catering to
underprivileged youth entrepreneurs and has a small business promoting
hand-made native bags and accessories which provides women and youth the
opportunity to work at home and add income to their households.

She has a Bachelors degree in Humanities with a special certificate in
Political Economy and an MA - Political Economy, International Relations
and Development. She is currently taking another graduate degree course in
Public Management. She is also certified trainer of the Basic
Entrepreneurship Development Course. She is currently a Visiting Scholar
at the Center for the Study of Human Rights at the School of International
and Public Affairs, Columbia University, a Foreign guest at the
International Center for Tolerance Education and an Emerging Fellow of the
Youth Social Enterprise Initiative.

Audrey has been engaged in youth work for nearly ten years starting with
volunteer work for various non-government organizations, moving on to
working for the business sector, which brought her back to her passion -
youth development work.

Her stay in ICTE and Columbia University will give her the chance to
evaluate PYEN’s Community-based Youth Entrepreneurship Program, revise
CYEP’s training program to incorporate a module on cultural understanding
between Muslims and Christians as well as analyze current youth employment
policies. She’s also working on toolkits for the training modules for
underprivileged youth entrepreneurs. She also hopes to learn strategies
on development work catered to grassroots youth and microfinance for
grassroots youth entrepreneurs.

2006 Fellow Saori Fotenos speaks on panel: “Citizen Journalism: A Look at How Blogging is Changing the Media Landscape from the Congo to Korea”, hosted by Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. Read the rest of this entry »

2006 Fellow David Lehr has been accepted into the Acumen Fund Fellows Program, a competitive fellowship program for individuals with the dedication to serving the poor in the developing world and the business skills to effect change. Read the rest of this entry »

Dipak Basu, Class of 2005, continues to develop and grow his project Linkage India, now known as Anudip. On May 8th, 2006 Anudip inaugurated its first rural entrepreneur development center in Namkhana Island in the south Sunderbands. Read the rest of this entry »

Seminar details:
Thurdsay, 18 May 2006
3:30pm-5:00pm PST
DV Lounge, 2nd floor Cordura Hall (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE)

Seminar speaker:
Aman Verjee graduated from Stanford University in 1996, with a degree in Public Policy and Economics. After three years at Lehman Brothers in New York, where he was a bond trader in their Financial Engineering group, he went to Harvard Business and Law Schools and graduated in 2001. He then joined McKinsey & Co., in Dallas, Texas, as an associate consultant.

Aman is now a Senior Director at PayPal, where he has been since July, 2002. In his four years at PayPal, Aman established and built out the Quantitative Marketing function, then headed up PayPal’s Strategy team, which lead the company into several new businesses, including mobile payments.

Seminar details:
Thursday, 11 May 2006
3:30pm-5:00pm PST
Cordura 100

Seminar speaker:
Amy Hill is the Community Projects Director at the Center for Digital Storytelling.

The Center for Digital Storytelling is a California-based non-profit 501(c)3 arts organization rooted in the art of personal storytelling. We assist young people and adults in using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share, and value the stories of individuals and communities, in ways that improve all our lives.

Seminar Details:
Tuesday, 9 May 2006
3:30-5pm
Nora Hall

Seminar Speakers:

Jim Fotenos concentrates on corporate, securities, and pass-through entity law. He has extensive experience in representing issuers in public and private equity and debt financing, corporate governance, SEC reporting and compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and broker-dealer and investment advisor regulation. He serves as primary outside counsel to one of the largest container leasing companies in the world. He joined Greene Radovsky in September 2000 after eight years as a principal with Fotenos & Suttle, P.C., of San Francisco.

Mr. Fotenos is a member of the Opinions Committee of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar. He served as Co-Chair of the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section for 2004-2005, and as the Committee’s Vice-Chair of Legislation for 2003-2004. While serving as Co-Chair of the Committee, Mr. Fotenos was one of the editors of the Committee’s 2005 report, “Legal Opinions in Business Transactions (Excluding the Remedies Opinion).” He served as a member (1991-1994) and Treasurer (1993-1994) of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section, and as Chair of the Partnerships Committee of the Business Law Section from 1989-1990. Mr. Fotenos also served as a member of the California State Senate Commission on Corporate Governance, Shareholder Rights and Securities Transactions, known as the Killea Commission.

Jim was an advisor to the drafting committee of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, which prepared the Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 (known as RUPA). Jim is a frequent lecturer on partnerships and limited liability companies.

Heather Rosmarin is an associate in the Cooley Godward Business department. She joined the firm in 2003 and is resident in the Palo Alto office.

Her practice consists of general corporate and securities law matters, with an emphasis on the representation of emerging companies, venture capital funds, and public companies in the technology sector.

Ms. Rosmarin received a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2003, where she served as supervising editor of the California Law Review. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1993.

Ms. Rosmarin is a member of the State Bar of California.

Information about the showcase:

The 2006 Digital Vision Fellows will be showcasing their work. Come learn about the innovative applications of technology that these Digital Vision entrepreneurs are developing for the social sector in emerging markets. Sip on wine and nibble on cheese while you browse through the poster-board exhibit of the 20 Digital Vision and learn more about their work firsthand.

Please RSVP to events@rdvp.org
Please indicate whether you will also attend the Financial Services Innovation Summit

When and where?

Light refreshments will be served.

About the DVP Fellows:

The current group of DV Fellows represent 9 countries, speak 17 different languages, have an average of 10 years professional experience, and many are experienced entrepreneurs. They are working on projects ranging from e-commerce, to microfinance to education; and in countries such as Brazil, Estonia, India, Kenya, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Venezuela.
Visit our Meet the Fellows page for more information.

Introduction

Financial services are fundamental to community development as they enable individuals to build assets, manage risks, and increase earnings. The Financial Services Innovation Summit launches the Digital Vision Programs Advancing Financial Services Initiative. Digital Vision Fellows in the Advancing Financial Services Initiative will harnesses the power of information technology to improve the reach, scope and effectiveness of critical financial services in underserved markets. They will employ a needs-based approach to conceptualizing innovations in the following areas: microfinance, microinsurance, remittances, market information, and e-commerce.

Please RSVP to events@rdvp.org.
In your message, please indicate whether you will be attending the Summit and/or the Showcase.

When and where?

Schedule of Events

Panel: Next Generation Financial Services for Untapped Markets

Come learn about the next generation of financial services for untapped markets. We will explore trends in disintermediation, discover how multinational corporations and social entrepreneurs are entering into the cross-border payments market, gain insights into the nuances in the cultural marketing of financial services for low-income markets, and hear about how microfinance institutions are making decisions on bundled services – which service bundles are the most profitable and for which market segments.

Moderator:
Danny Ayala, Senior Vice President and Product Management Manager, Wells Fargo’s Global Remittance Services. More

Panelists:
Margarita Quihuis, President and Founder, Indigo Financiera. More
Segeni Ng’ethe, President and Founder, MamaMikes. More
Bhairav Trivedi, Co-Founder and CEO, PayQuik. More
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Gabriel Manjarrez, Co-founder and EVP, Progress Financial Corp (Progreso Financiero).More
Nat Goldhaber, Founder of Claremont Creek Venture and Cybergold. More

Keynote Speakers

Speaker:Nancy Barry, President of Women’s World Banking
Bringing Technology to Micro-entrepreneurs

The Women’s World Banking network aims to have a major impact on expanding the economic assets, participation and power of low income women as entrepreneurs and economic agents by opening their access to finance, knowledge and markets. Stanford alumni Nancy Barry will highlight Women’s World Banking’s strategy of Bringing Technology to Micro-entrepreneurs. Women’s World Banking is assisting its affiliates with creating technological tools to assist with MFI product diversification, expansion into rural areas, and managing micro-enterprises. Through this strategy, and all of its work, the Women’s World Banking network aims to have a major impact on expanding the economic assets, participation and power of low income women as entrepreneurs and economic agents by opening their access to finance, knowledge and markets.

Barry’s bio:
http://www.swwb.org/English/1000/global_team/office_of_the_president.htm
Women’s World Banking:
http://www.swwb.org

Speaker:Javier Sarro, Chief Executive Officer, Grupo Elektra
Achieving Scale: From Zero to 80,000 loans per week in less than three years

Grupo Elektra is Latin America ’s leading specialty retailer and financial services company, serving the mass market by providing consumer credit. It operates more than 1,000 stores in four countries. Javier Sarro will share his perspectives on Grupo Elektra’s strategy of combining retail with banking operations. Launched in October of 2002, Banco Azteca now has a presence in the majority of Grupo Elektra’s 1,000 stores in Mexico and opens 50,000 new savings accounts and 80,000 new loans every week. Banco Azteca also offers basic insurance, medical coverage, and free entrepreneurship training to its low and middle-income clients. Grupo Elektra has well established systems to effectively monitor and manage credit risk for small denomination loans on a weekly basis.

Sarro’s bio:
http://www.gruposalinas.com/whatis/team.shtml#
Grupo Elektra:
http://www.grupoelektra.com.mx/elektra/English/default.asp