2006 DV Fellows

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Why business models are critical to innovation in emerging economies – From social entrepreneurship to building an idea or a business – Part 1

Emerging economies represent new challenges for ideas and businesses, which is why new social entrepreneurship opportunities are now the Petri-dish for what is emerging. Some examples exist of great reference;

Hi:

Based on my experience at the DV Fellow 05 program and being a mentor to Jose Arocha and team http://fellows.rdvp.org/josearocha I volunteer if necessary and will be available in the form of;

From a recent Fortune magazine that I read that most companies in S&P have been rated as risky. This represents a huge challenge for companies as new emerging economies such as India, China or other countries mean new business models which have to be sustainable and scalable and I do not think that there are in most text books or case studies of today.

I am collaborating with the Graduate School of Business here at Stanford, and usual working with students is always an intriguing and fruitful experience, which I usually cherish a lot. We did touch a quite interesting matter of what a social venture really is during a discussion on the project. Do all social ventures include a non-profit approach or can you have social ventures based on a ‘purely’ for-profit model? Can a commercialised approach ever do any good?

Alertnet: Hundreds feared dead in Philippine mudslide

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who had expressed concern on whether I have friends/family affected in the disaster area. Thankfully, there are none. I live on the southern part of Mindanao island in the Philippines and Leyte island is located somewhere in the middle. (map image below)

I'v attached the Powerpoint presentation from the seminar Cheryl Dahle and I did on January 24th.

With the full-day retreat on Monday, we decided to cancel the Tuesday DV meeting on January 17th.

There seems to be confusion regarding the start times of our meetings/seminars.

They do vary between starting at 3 and 3:30. Therefore, please make a special effort to note the times.

1) Tuesday meetings start at 3:30 (Nora Suppes 103)

Attached is the powerpoint presentation from Paul Ranking about his current project, Living Cultural Storybases. Please feel free to contact Paul if you are interested in collaborating with him on this project.

As requested by some users and the usability group, I have enabled an enhanced directory with current fellows contact information.

This directory is only visible to fellows.

Please make sure you add the relevant information to your user profile so that it's listed there.

To follow up on the topic of changing the Monday meeting times for winter term, we will be holding our DV meetings on Tuesdays from 3:30pm-5:00pm, starting January 10, 2006.

Please plan accordingly.

Please send the folllowing to Vi by Monday, December 5, 2005.

1. Project description (60 word limit)
2. Personal bio (60 word limit)
3. (optional) You are welcome to send me longer descriptions and bios for the website. Please keep this at a reasonable length (~100 words).

Greetings All!

Would anyone benefit from having an informal mentor from Microsoft?

Microsoft employees have been mentors in the past and are willing to do so again in the future. Because we are half way into the Program, this would be an informal mentorship...imagine it would be for someone who has a specific technical/business need that would lend itself well to Microsoft support. This would be non-financial support....intellectual/technical...

Here is the last presentation...guess we can only attach 4 things to one forum message

Unless research groups remain in continuous contact, interaction and exchange communication with the rest of the stakeholders, their separation from the actual development and deployment process generates a dangerous discontinuity and an unnecessary gap between observation, design, deployment and redesign.

The Different Nature of ICT Projects

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) projects are different from common manufactured or consumer products in that they are not built through an expensive production line that requires physical resources difficult to change and modify.

Please express your preferences about posts being profiled on the front page of RDVP.org. Click here for More information on this issue...

The Illusion and Negative Effect of Social Impact from Information and Communication Technologies

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are wonderful tools with an enormous potential for Social Impact, Human Development and improving the lives of the people they serve.

I took some time to investigate the inaccuracies many of you have found and pointed out in the display of times for events.

I discovered that the discrepancies were caused both by the use of different time zones by the users and the system and the recent time saving change in the US.

Note: This note is old, I just updated it with some additional information and clearer instructions.

Users can now upload podcasts or audio files to the collaboration framework that visitors can listen to on-line or download for offline listening in their computers, Ipods or mp3 players.

Several of our projects aim to become sustainable by offering some sort of service or product on-line and charging for it.

I thought it would be a good idea to enable a couple of e-commerce applications, on-line stores and shopping carts for the fellows to play around with them and explore their configuration and how they could be used easily for their projects.

Here is the schedule for today's seminars:

3:00pm: Talk with Tech Laureate, Tahis Corral. Tahis is with CEMINA.

4:00pm: Talk with Joshua Reeves with Zazzle 

There has been a last minute change tomorrow with the seminar. Paul Braund with RIOS is unable to speak tomorrow, but Josh Reeves from Zazzle is still speaking from 4-5pm.

Please still plan to meet

Dear All,

Does anyone know how to change their own picture on the PUBLIC RDVP website? I know how to change it on Fellownies, but need to know on RDVP. I actually do not want a happy face picture of me out there when my last few blogs have been about death and destruction in Pakistan.

Here are my notes from the DV meeting on November 7, 2005. As this was a non-public, internal meeting, these notes are private.

DV Meeting Agenda & Notes

Monday, 11/07/2005