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Allvoices - unedited, unmediated real community based media

Erik Sundelof — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:12:01 -0400

Around the world. Constantly. Something is happening. The snap of the moment. A flash. A picture. A video. A short text message. A reflection.

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TAVOS Media Networks

José Arocha — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:47:15 -0500

TAVOS Media Network is a trail-blazing venture based in Palo Alto, California, that empowers people in underserved communities around the world through local media services. Our vision is to build a global network of local media microfranchises to give voice and promote the life and prosperity of every community.

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Why business models are critical to innovation in emerging economies – From social entrepreneurship to businesses

Gerard Rego — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:30:01 -0400

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;

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Mentorship - I am availble as a mentor to DV Fellows

Gerard Rego — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:51:53 -0400

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;

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How new business models will drive innovation!

Gerard Rego — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:18:31 -0400

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.

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Atif's Birthday

Atif Mumtaz — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:52:56 -0400

The no-rules group

Are you coming to the pizza lunch on 4/18

Vi Le — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:16:19 -0400

* Yes I will be there to feast on the smorgasboard of ideas and pizza.\n* Sorry, I can't make it.\n* Maybe - Microsoft Outlook mysteriously deleted my calendar so I am unsure whether I am free.\n* \n* \n

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Fellows Pizza Lunch

Vi Le — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:01:30 -0400

Event Info:

Informal gathering of fellows - chow down on pizza and exchange words of wisdom or current project conundrums.

PLEASE RSVP!

Location:
DV Lounge

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DV Fellows Meeting

Vi Le — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:38:35 -0400

Event Info:

Project work

Location:
Nora 103

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DV Fellows Meeting

Vi Le — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:35:21 -0400

Event Info:

We will be using this Tuesday Meeting to practice our pitches for the April 18th Mock Pitch.

Location:
Nora 103

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Is a for-profit social venture impossible?

Erik Sundelof — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:42:00 -0500

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?

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Financial Services Innovation Summit

Vi Le — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:45:09 -0500

Location:
Cordura 100, Stanford University

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Mock Pitch

Vi Le — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:33:55 -0500

Event Info:

Karen has been putting together a great mock pitch event. Steve Ketchpel will be both helping organize the event and be a panelist. From Karen:
You will each be given from 10-15 minutes to present your projects to a panel of 2-3 venture capitalists or foundations (you specified your preference, we will try and accommodate that). This panel will then give you constructive criticism of your pitch. The objective is to strengthen your pitch to improve the likelihood of success with a "real" funder.
Atif, Avni, David, Deepti, Erik, Maranga, Sam, Shachi, Saori, Uuve and Michael all expressed an interest in participating. We will do three simultaneous panels to accommodate all of you.
Others are invited to watch...alumni will be invited to observe as well and to benefit from the experience. Please note: we will need a full two hours, so we are starting at 3:00pm

Location:
Cordura 100, Ventura 17, Nora 103

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Pitch Preparation

Vi Le — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:27:53 -0500

Event Info:

2005 Fellow Margarita Quihuis has kindly agreed to hold a business plan presentation workshop. Margarita will both provide a template for you to use in your "pitch" and give advice on how to make it compelling.

Location:
Nora 103

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Mudslide in Guinsaugon, Leyte, Philippines

Jason Banico — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:08:49 -0500

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)

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Preparation meeting for Google visit

Vi Le — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:10:24 -0500

Event Info:

Preparation for the Google visit on February 28th. Please attend to find out all the details on what to expect during the trip.

Location:
Nora 103

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Fellows' Meeting

Vi Le — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:20:12 -0500

Event Info:

Shachi will be leading discussion.

Location:
Nora 103

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Lunch with Gregg Zachary

Vi Le — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:59:18 -0500

Event Info:

Join us for an informal lunch and meet Gregg Zachary, visiting lecturer at Stanford and journalist.

Please let Vi know if you are unable to attend.

Location:
DV Lounge

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Innovation Journalism Social Gathering

Vi Le — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:22:49 -0500

Event Info:

A social gathering for the RDVP Fellows to meet the Innovation Journalism Fellows (see attached document for additional information about the InJo Fellows).

This event will follow the Thursday seminar with Mirek Jach from AMD.

Location:
Cordura 100

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Landscape for Financing International Social Enterprise

Michael Chertok — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:58:58 -0500

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

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Visa International Field Trip

Karen Coppock — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:38:38 -0500

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January 17th DV meeting cancelled

Vi Le — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:01:59 -0500

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

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Note about start times of events

Vi Le — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:01:59 -0500

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)

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DV Fellows Meeting

Vi Le — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:03:07 -0500

Event Info:

Internal Fellows' Meeting

Location:
Nora 103

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DV Fellows Meeting

Vi Le — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:01:53 -0500

Event Info:

Internal Fellows' Meeting

Location:
Nora 103

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DV Fellows Meeting

Vi Le — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:35:20 -0500

Short Description:

Internal Fellows' Meeting.

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Paul Rankin, Living Cultural Storybases

Vi Le — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:33:42 -0500

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.

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New Private Enhanced Current Fellows Directory

Carlos Miranda Levy — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:06:17 -0500

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.

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DV Meeting time change - winter term

Vi Le — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:03:24 -0500

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.

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Project descriptions and personal bios

Vi Le — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:37:32 -0500

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).

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Microsoft - Interest in a Microsoft mentor?

Karen Coppock — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:12:12 -0500

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...

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DV Holiday Party

Vi Le — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:19:41 -0500

Event Info:

DV Holiday party at Cordura Hall Saturday Dec 3 4-7pm Guests welcome Please bring your favorite Holiday Food
Stu and Vi

Location:
DV Lounge

Website:
www.cardfountain.com/do_pickup_ecard.php?nopu=1&pid=730329

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Lunch w/ Dagbevi Yawo Akpawu

Vi Le — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:33:38 -0500

Event Info:

Brown bag lunch with Dagbevi Yawo Akpawu. From his biography (attached): "Dagbevi Yawo Akpawu, a native of Togo, West Africa, is a scholar, educator and activist, working for democratic reform in Africa's longest ruling dictatorship." Dagbevi is an investigative reporter for the Togolese League of Human Rights.

Location:
DV Lounge, Cordura Hall

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Visa International Field Trip - Presentations II

Karen Coppock — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:23:37 -0500

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

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The Perils of Intermediation

Carlos Miranda Levy — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:00:03 -0500

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.

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The Need for a Special Approach in the Development of ICT Projects

Carlos Miranda Levy — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:52:24 -0500

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.

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Survey: Not Private but Not Publicized

Carlos Miranda Levy — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:48:22 -0500

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

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Project Descriptions due for GSB Collaboration

Vi Le — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:26:39 -0500

Event Info:

Chip Heath and Beth Benjamin need project descriptions in order to best match GSB students with your projects. Please be sure to send the requested information (guidelines found here) by November 15th to leadership@gsb.stanford.edu. Please remember to include contact information for where you will be in the beginning of December in case students would like to contact you during winter break.

Website:
http://fellows.rdvp.org/GSB_projectdescrip

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SIFT: Social Impact from Technology

Carlos Miranda Levy — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:23:06 -0500

Short Description:

Methodology for the formulation and deployment of Information Technology Strategies that generate an impact on Human Development and close the gap between stakeholders (beneficiaries), developers and management. Built on the lessons learned through 9 years of developing IT strategies, projects, social networks and virtual environments, from best practices to unexpected complications.

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CODE3: Collaborative Project Development through Continuous Community Direct Engagement.

Carlos Miranda Levy — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:04:10 -0500

Short Description:

Why do some collaborations work and others fall apart? Collaborations are the activities of cohesive communities working toward common goals. Yet, so often, a host of issues, cultural, technical, style of communication, thwart the best intended, well resourced efforts. Carlos Miranda Levy, drawing on 10 years of experience building, working with and in community will highlight some of the essential elements of what works, what doesn't and why. He will use examples from the open source movement such as PHPNuke, PostNuke, Drupal, Civicspace and the Digital Vision Collaboration Framework at Stanford to illustrate his case.

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Social Impact from Technology

Carlos Miranda Levy — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:50:21 -0500

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.

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Fixing inaccuracies in event times and time zones

Carlos Miranda Levy — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 13:25:08 -0500

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.

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Audio Upload and Playback Feature

Carlos Miranda Levy — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 13:16:41 -0500

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.

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e-Commerce Sandbox for fellows

Carlos Miranda Levy — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:13:46 -0500

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.

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Seminar Changes - Thursday, November 10th

Vi Le — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:11:14 -0500

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

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Tech Laureate Tahis Corral

Vi Le — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:04:56 -0500

Event Info:

Tech Laureate Tahis Corral is speaking to the DV group about her work with CEMINA, non-profit activist group that works with poor Brazilian women to create greater access to ICTS by way of radio.

Location:
Cordura 100

Website:
http://www.cemina.org.br/english/

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Seminar Change - Thursday, November 10th

Vi Le — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:45:23 -0500

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

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How do you change a Picture?

Atif Mumtaz — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:21:40 -0500

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.

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Notes from 11/07/05 meeting

Vi Le — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:45:58 -0500

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

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What day are you available for the DV Holiday Party?

Vi Le — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:52:05 -0500

* Saturday, December 3, 2005\n* Sunday, December 4, 2005\n* Tuesday, December 6, 2005\n* I am available any day.\n* I cannot make any of the dates above\n

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