Digital Vision Fellowship

1. Digital Vision Fellowship Dedicated to entrepreneurship and high tech innovation in the service of social needs Stanford Digital Vision Program

2. Limiting problems, limitless ICT opportunities Keys to science and technology innovations: • New applications • New interfaces • New cost structure • New partnerships • New research …A new class of entrepreneurs Stanford Digital Vision Program

3. Sources of tech innovation 20th Century 21st Century • 2 Billion established • technology • markets • - Military • Large enterprise • - Consumer • 4.5 Billion emerging • global customers • Government • Universities • Smallenterprise Technologysuppliers -Hardware -Network -Applications Entrepreneurs, Start-ups Global Entrepreneurs Innovation platforms Successful ICT solutions have always been based on understanding and addressing end user needs Stanford Digital Vision Program

4. Global entrepreneurs Stanford Digital Vision Program

5. Social entrepreneurs Leveraging science and technology for humanity “Motivated by a profound desire to promote the growth of equitable civil societies, social entrepreneurs pioneer innovative, effective, sustainable approaches to meet the needs of the marginalized, the disadvantaged and the disenfranchised.” • Skoll Foundation Stanford Digital Vision Program

6. New agendas Linking minds and markets Create curricula that focus on: • Millennium Development Goals • Education and health • Literacy • Microfinance and e-commerce • Access to networks • 21st Century research priorities • Design for affordability • Needs-driven solutions • Peer to peer learning Stanford Digital Vision Program

7. DV Program: A Do Tank not a Think Tank • Fellows on campus • “Visiting scholars” • Project-driven • Needs focused • Practical • Experimental • Failure tolerant Stanford Digital Vision Program

8. Core program • DV seminars and workshops • Project plan • Prototyping • Interdisciplinary collaborations • Graduate School of Business • Computer Science Dept. • Engineering School • Medical School • School of Education Stanford Digital Vision Program

9. DV Projects: Relevance and impact • Design and implement new programs • Real solutions based on real needs • Leverage community pull, not technology push • Innovate, not invent • Create sustainability models “The last thing I want to see from Stanford is another White Paper.” -ED, Reuters Foundation 2002 Stanford Digital Vision Program

10. DV deliverables: From “vision” to visible • Nine-month program: • Defining needs • Prototyping services • Creating partnerships • Focus on cost-effective: • Innovations • Ventures • Visibility Stanford Digital Vision Program

11. Prototypes to ventures Stanford Digital Vision Program

12. Partnering with private sector, Silicon Valley • Exposure to tech firms • Weekly seminars with technology executives • Mentoring program • Network with Diasporas • Contact with venture capitalists Stanford Digital Vision Program

13. Global connections, DV alumni Stanford Digital Vision Program

14. Experience 2002-06 • 80 Stanford fellowships awarded • 58 Community-oriented technology ventures created • 37 pilot tested or implemented (65% survival rate) • 18 Handed off to partner organizations • 11 Incorporated • $12+ million invested in DV projects Stanford Digital Vision Program

15. Motorola 2002-2006 DV Supporters Stanford Digital Vision Program

16. Thank you Digital Vision Program Stanford University Cordura Hall 210 Panama Street Stanford, CA 94305-4115 Tel: +1-650-724-4069 Fax: 1-650-724-4076 http://rdvp.org Stuart Gannes:sgannes@stanford.edu Karen Coppock:kcoppock@stanford.edu Stanford Digital Vision Program