Stanford Digital Vision Program Digital Vision Fellowship Dedicated to entrepreneurship and high...

Stanford Digital Vision Program

Digital Vision Fellowship

Dedicated to entrepreneurship and high tech innovation in the service of

social needs

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Stanford Digital Vision Program

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

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Stanford Digital Vision Program

Sources of tech innovation

Technologysuppliers

-Hardware -Network -Applications

2 Billion established technology markets

- Military - Large enterprise- Consumer

4.5 Billion emerging global customers

- Government-Universities -Smallenterprise

Successful ICT solutions have always been based on understanding and addressing end user needs

20th Century 21st Century

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Global entrepreneurs

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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

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Stanford Digital Vision Program

New agendas

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

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Linking minds and markets

Stanford Digital Vision Program

DV Program: A Do Tank not a Think Tank

• Fellows on campus– “Visiting scholars”– Project-driven– Needs focused– Practical– Experimental– Failure tolerant

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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

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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

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“The last thing I want to see from Stanford is another White Paper.”-ED, Reuters Foundation 2002

Stanford Digital Vision Program

DV deliverables: From “vision” to visible

• Nine-month program:– Defining needs– Prototyping services – Creating partnerships

• Focus on cost-effective:

– Innovations – Ventures – Visibility

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Prototypes to ventures

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Partnering with private sector, Silicon Valley

• Exposure to tech firms• Weekly seminars with

technology executives• Mentoring program• Network with Diasporas• Contact with venture

capitalists

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Global connections, DV alumni

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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

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Stanford Digital Vision Program

Motorola

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2002-2006 DV Supporters

Stanford Digital Vision Program

Digital Vision Program Stanford University

Cordura Hall210 Panama Street

Stanford, CA 94305-4115Tel: +1-650-724-4069Fax: 1-650-724-4076

http://rdvp.org

Stuart Gannes: sgannes@stanford.eduKaren Coppock: kcoppock@stanford.edu

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