Audience at RiOS Seminar series, UC Berkeley

"The Business of Social Entrepreneurship"
Jim Koch, Founder, Global Social Benefit Incubator

"Measuring Social Innovation"
Sara Olsen, Founder, Social Venture Technology Group

"Funding Social Entrepreneurs and Technology Innovators"
Kamran Elahian, Founder, Global Catalyst Partners and Global Catalyst Foundation

Silicon Valley Challenge Summit
November 2006

PUBLIC EVENTS

RiOS Institute is organizing periodic events to foster the debate around ICTD.

Seminar Series on Social Entrepreneurship, New Technologies and Social Impact.
School of Information, UC Berkeley.
Fall 2007.

"Social Entrepreneurship in ICTD"
Yahel Ben-David, Founder, Air Jaldi

"Design Thinking"
Matthew Holloway, vp Design Services, SAP

"Markets and Social Change: a Panel Discussion"
Jessica Flannery Co-founder, kiva.org
Darian Rodriguez-Heyman, Executive Director, Craigslist Foundation
Gerard Speksnijder, Silicon Valley Office, McKinsey and Partners

"Innovation in Social Entrepreneurship and New Technologies"
Craig Newmark, Founder, Craigslist
"here is a podcast of Craig's talk"

PUBLICATIONS

iGUIDE launched in May 2008

RiOS Institute’s publications are directed at a wide variety of audiences, in order to encourage the broadest possible discussion around ICTD issues.

iGUIDE: ICTD Resources in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area launched at UN Global Forum in May 2008.

"A Living Lab:" Corporate Delivery of ICTs in Rural India. - Science, Technology and Society 12 (3), 2008.
Article by Anke Schwittay.

Information and Communications Technology for Economic Development: Exploring Possibilities for Multi-sector Technology Collaborations.
Report from e-conference with World Bank Institute.

Building Common Ground: The UN Connecting with Silicon Valley.
Working paper published for Meeting of the Strategy Council of the United Nation's Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN-GAID)
February 2007

"The Missing Piece: Human-Centered Design and Research in ICTD,"
ICTD 2006 IEEE Conference Proceedings.

PRESENTATIONS

Anke Schwittay gave talk on "Corporate Delivery of ICTs in Rural India" at Workshop on "ICTs and Development: Experiences from Asia" at the National University of Singapore, April 2008.

Paul Braund gave a talk on "Business and Management Models for Technology in the Developing World" at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. March 2008.

Anke Schwittay gave a talk about corporate philanthropy programs among Silicon Valley high-tech companies
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
February 2008

Paul Braund presented at the "The Future of Innovation: Digital & Green"
Netherlands-American Foundations, San Francisco Chapter
November 2007

See here for more presentations

WORKSHOP

RiOS workshop at Silicon Valley Challenge Summit

The RiOS workshop “Testing Assumptions in the Design of Solutions” introduces participants to the fundamentals of human-driven design and research (HDDR) in an hands-on, discovery based workshop.

The workshop has been offered to various audiences around the Bay Area, including at the Global Social Benefit Incubator, the Silicon Valley Challenge Summit and at UC Berkeley’s School of Information

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