Program Partners
Our valued partners make this unique program possible. Please visit their websites for more information.
Strategic Partners
Reuters Foundation
http://www.foundation.reuters. com
Reuters Foundation is a humanitarian and educational trust, primarily funded by Reuters, the global news, information and technology group.
Its work reflects the values and concerns of the company and its employees. It focuses in particular on areas where Reuters skills and expertise in information gathering, technology and communications can be put to use in ways which will benefit the communities in which Reuters works worldwide.
The Foundation’s AlertNet service provides fast news and communications for international disaster relief. Carrying reports from Reuters and aid workers at the scene of disasters, AlertNet acts as a clearing house for vital information on humanitarian crises worldwide, helping aid professionals make life-saving decisions.
The Foundation also supports international journalism, through a program of university fellowships and specialist training courses for journalists from the developing world, designed to promote high standards in reporting based on Reuters own principles of accuracy and objectivity.
In support of education the Foundation funds debates and seminars on global economic issues and research and tuition in fields relating to information technology. It also encourages public awareness of global environmental issues, through training courses in environmental reporting and a global media award.
Reuters Foundation is managed and financed by Reuters, and is registered with the UK Charity Commissioners, number 1082139.
Reuters
Reuters is a global information company providing indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Its information is trusted and drives decision making across the globe. Reuters has a reputation for speed, accuracy and freedom from bias.
Although Reuters is best known as the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, more than 90% of its revenue derives from its financial services business. Some 427,000 financial market professionals working in the equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, money, commodities and energy markets around the world use Reuters products. They rely on Reuters services to provide them with the information and tools they need to help them be more productive.
Reuters’ core strengths lie in providing the content, analytics, trading and messaging capabilities needed by financial professionals. Its open technology, based on industry standards, enables its customers to search, store and integrate our information with content from other sources, facilitating the way they work. Reuters provides financial institutions with specially designed tools to help them reduce risk and distribute and manage the ever-increasing volumes of market data. It also offers automated trading products for the treasury market.
Reuters supplies news - text, graphics, video and pictures – to media organizations and websites around the world. It also provides news to businesses outside financial services.
Stanford University
On October 1st, 1891, Jane and Leland Stanford established Stanford University in memory of their only son, Leland Jr., who died of typhoid fever at the age of 15. From the outset, Stanford was untraditional: coeducational in a time when most private universities were all-male; nondenominational when most were associated with a religious organization; and avowedly practical, producing “cultured and useful citizens” when most were concerned only with the former.
Since its beginning, Stanford University has changed tremendously on its way to recognition as one of the world’s best universities. At the hub of a vital and diverse Bay Area, Stanford is an hour’s drive south of San Francisco, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
The university is organized into seven schools: Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering, the Graduate School of Business, Humanities and Sciences, Law, and Medicine. The Stanford Faculty, which numbers approximately 1600, is one of the most distinguished in the nation.
Stanford University’s Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
The Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) is an Independent Research Center, founded in 1983. CSLI is devoted to research in the emerging science of information, computing, and cognition. The Center brings together Stanford’s leading scientists, scholars, and students from computer science, psychology, philosophy, electrical and mechanical engineering, linguistics, communication, and education. CSLI’s multi-disciplinary nature enables problems to be addressed from many perspectives, resulting in unique solutions to theoretical and practical problems.
CSLI is a major leader of Media X, an umbrella organization across the Stanford campus that coordinates the study and design of interactive technology, and The Reuters Foundation is a strategic partner of Media X.
Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of researchers, faculty and students, Media X influences the next generation of interactive technology relevant to commerce, learning and entertainment.
Media X projects address challenges related to people and technology. These challenges include: ease of use, natural forms of input and output, social and emotional responses, enhancement of learning, and interaction strategies in business.
Strategic Partners
Reuters Foundation
Reuters
Stanford University
Stanford University’s Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
Scholarship Partners
Google
Motorola
AMD
Teachers Without Borders
Grameen Technology Center
In Kind Partners
TiE-Talent Ideas and Enterprise
NetSquared
Vital Wave Consulting
SAP/Stanford Digital Vision Mentoring Program
Tracy Prentiss, SAP Labs
2006-20007
Joaquin Alvarado, San Francisco State University
Madhu Anand, Cisco Systems
Rebecca Burns Tufano, CORUM
Jamais Cascio, WorldChanging.com
Chris Cordani, Reuters Inc.
Kip Darcy, Hewlett Packard
Mat Hans, PhD, Motorola
Mirek Jah, AMD
Peter Kelly, Autotradecenter.com
Allen Long, Outward Insights
Michael Looney, PhD, Consultant & Social Entrepreneur
Ami Mehta, Hewlett Packard
Paul Meissner, PhD, Coherent Inc.
Margarita Quihuis, Indigo Financiera
Heather Rosmarin Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
Hardika Shah, Accenture
Khyati Shah, Apple
Rajiv Taneja Motorola
Atul Vashishta, NeoIT
Katrin Verclas N-TEN
2005-2006
Kip Darcy, Hewlett Packard
David Gutelius, Ishtirak, SRI International
David Hornik, August Capital
Timothy Kay, Ph.D., Active Buddy, Inc.
Peter Kelly, Autotradecenter.com
Tom Lee, MD, Metropolitan Medical Group
Allen Long, Outward Insights
Ben Menor, Northside Community Center
Rajkumar Potuneedi, Cisco Systems
Andrea Reichert, End Poverty Foundation
Jay Sullivan, PocketThis
Monika Szamko, Trium Group
Jeff Tangney, Epocrates
Atul Vashistha, NeoIT
Liz Vasile Galin, Ariste Research Group
Greg Widymer, Monogram BioSciences
Past Sponsors
AcrossWorld
Bechtel
Benetech
CGNET
Cisco Systems
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Hewlett-Packard
Microsoft Corporation
Philips
Ricoh Innovations
Roamware, Inc.
Sun Microsystems
UN World Food Programme
Friends and Advisors
Development Space
Dodd Futterman & Dupree LLP
Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Fund at Peninsula Community Foundation
Schwab Foundation
Technology Empowerment Network (TEN)