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Digital Vision Fellowship
Dedicated to entrepreneurship and
high tech innovation in the service of
social needs
Stanford Digital Vision Program
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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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Sources of tech innovation
20th Century
2 Billion
established
technology
markets
- Military
- Large
enterprise
- Consumer
21st Century
Technology
suppliers
-Hardware
-Network
-Applications
4.5 Billion
emerging
global
customers
- Government
-Universities
-Small
enterprise
Successful ICT solutions have always been based on
understanding and addressing end user needs
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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.”
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Skoll Foundation
Stanford Digital Vision Program
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New agendas
Linking minds and markets
Create curricula that focus on:
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Millennium Development Goals
– Education and health
– Literacy
– Microfinance and e-commerce
– Access to networks
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21st Century research priorities
– Design for affordability
– Needs-driven solutions
– Peer to peer learning
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DV Program: A Do Tank not a Think Tank
• Fellows on campus
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“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
“The last thing I want to see from Stanford is another White Paper.”
-ED, Reuters Foundation 2002
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DV deliverables: From “vision” to visible
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Nine-month program:
– Defining needs
– Prototyping services
– Creating partnerships
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Focus on costeffective:
– 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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2002-2006 DV Supporters
Motorola
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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