Advisory Board Meeting Center for Science, Technology, and Society

Advisory Board Meeting
Center for Science, Technology, and Society
2 October 2K8
Advisory Board Meeting
Center for Science, Technology, and Society
2 October 2K8
Biotechnology
Agrobiotechnology Program
2008–2009
Brown-bag Presentations
◊ Organic vs. Conventional Agriculture:
Does the Perception Equal the Reality?
◊ Playing God or Serving Mammon:
Catholic Ethical Concerns about
Transgenic Crop Technologies
Panels
◊ Communicating Biotechnology Issues to
the Public
◊ The Global Food Crisis: Third World
Challenges
Marquee Speakers
◊ Paul Polak: Out of Poverty: What Works
When Traditional Approaches Fail
Marquee Speakers
◊ Lawrence Busch: TBA
Advisory Board Update
Presented by Jim Koch
Oct. 2, 2008
Skoll Grant
Extending the Reach and Impact
• Sector Strategy
– 2008 Water Sector Pilot
– Others (Energy/Clean-Tech; IT)
• Geographic nodes
– Regions
– Jesuit Commons
• Advancing the field. . . case studies
Skoll’s Assessment
• Program strengths
– Best social enterprise ventures
– Best content (hybrid delivery/in-residence)
– Silicon Valley mentoring and teaching
• Sally Osberg, Skoll Foundation CEO
“Universities are very good at seeking the truth,
but not so good at action. Well this university
(Santa Clara) is good at both.”
Silicon Valley Zeitgeist
Jeff Skoll in creating the Foundation, understood in a very
intuitive way, that there was magic in Silicon Valley—something
really remarkable about the spirit of innovation, the
entrepreneurship, the system that had been developed of
investors and universities and innovators and entrepreneurs. He
understood that there was something special about that and that
it was our responsibility to identify partners who could really work
with the social entrepreneurs. Well Santa Clara and the Global
Social Benefit Incubator have been ideal for that purpose.
Sally Osberg
Welcome BBQ for GSBI Class
Sector Strategy Pilot
• Phase I
– Reverse osmosis/UV (India, 2 business
models)
– Riverbank Filtration (India)
– Elephant Pump—WISH / Pump Aid (Malawi)
• Phase II—Catalyzing the Sector
– White Paper on innovation eco-system
– Targeted sector post conference with key
players
(Water for People, Global Water Challenge,
investors, suppliers, government/NGO, water
projects)
GSBI
SCU
Monterrey
Canary
Islands
Geographic Strategy
Taiwan
Monterrey
Monterrey
Puebla
Guadalajara
México
Canary Islands
GSBI Santa Clara
GSBI Canary I.
Taiwan
GSBI Santa Clara
GSBI Taiwan
Selected Case Study Candidates
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DDD (Cambodia)
IDE-India
Drishtee (India)
Kiva (Multi-country)
Scojo/Vision Spring (Multi-country)
Sprinkles (Multi-country)
Pump Aid (Africa)
Fundacion Paraguaya (South America)
Thamel.com (Nepal)
Thank You
A part of the Social Innovation Platform
Advisory Board Meeting
Center for Science, Technology, and Society
2 October 2K8
SCU & STS Missions
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educates leaders of competence, conscience, and
compassion who help fashion a more just, humane, and
sustainable world.
Center:
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researches and promotes the use and understanding of
science and technology for the common good.
brings together scholars, industry leaders, and public
advocates to collaboratively serve humanity by leveraging
the Center’s unique strengths.
VID
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Identifies the ways in which social and
political values are built into information and
communications technology.
Creates an interdisciplinary community of
researchers (information systems, computer
science, law, STS) that encourage value
centered design by conceptualizing,
developing and implementing software and
network applications that address social and
economic need.
VID Example: Geotagging
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Make visible the everyday pathways which are traveled by
women who are trafficked into the sex trade in L.A.
480,000 to 640,000 women and girls are trafficked for forced
labor and sex worldwide each year. (US State Dept.)
US is one of top 3 destination countries for sex traffickers.
14,500 to 17,500 trafficking victims brought into US every year.
(CIA)
California is one of the top 4 states. (NY,Tx,Nv.)
Thousands of trafficked women in S.F. and thousands more in
L.A.
Hard to know how many and to whom to provide assistance
given the isolation and dangers many of these women face.
Women who have become witnesses have been burned with
acid, have disappeared, or have had their homes ransacked and
their families harmed or threatened in their home countries.
VID: GEOTAGGING
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Make visible the everyday pathways which
are traveled by women who are trafficked into
the sex trade in L.A.
Organizations such as free clinics, human
rights organizations and concerned
governments need a better method for
identifying victims and communicating the
scale of the problem without placing the
victims at risk.
Shadows of Slavery (SOS) makes use of
readable stickers which are later geotagged
and mapped on the internet to represent the
pathways of human trafficking.
VID: GEOTAGGING
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The stickers will be distributed on the back of business cards
which contain the contact information for national hotlines for
victims of trafficking. Such cards are often made available in
locations like free clinics.
Women who are given the cards and self-identify as trafficked
may communicate their situation by posting their sticker in a
public place they pass through that feels safe.
The social signaling via stickers will be translated into a webbased map developed through the efforts of citizens using GPS
enabled camera phones.
The stickers will be located by everyday citizens, such as
geocachers, who seek out hidden objects.
VID: GEOTAGGING
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Enhancement of Summer Program
SCU/STS Interdisciplinary team
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Business
Engineering
Law
Silicon Valley
http://flickr.com/photos/titanas/2231737490
KnowledeX &
CSTS Social Innovation Platform
Status report
for
CSTS Advisory Board
October 2, 2008
Andy Lieberman
Vision earlier this year:
KnowledeX & GSBI Online
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KnowledeX
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An online community of Tech Laureates
Funded by Applied Materials
Team: Pedro Hernández-Ramos, Andy Lieberman
GSBI Online
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Allow GSBI curriculum to reach more emerging
entrepreneurs
Funded by Skoll Foundation
Team: Jim Koch, Pat Guerra
Vision now:
CSTS Social Innovation Platform
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One online platform to support:
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Steering committee:
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Tech Laureates
GSBI Fellows
Other Social Entrepreneurs
Other CSTS initiatives
Geof Bowker, Jim Koch, Pedro Hernández-Ramos
Implementation team:
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Pat Guerra, Andy Lieberman
Desired outcomes (1):
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Intelligent Resource and Knowledge Center
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Accelerates Knowledge and Skill Transfer
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Establishes a Community of Practice
Key outputs (2):
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Silicon Valley-style
Ecosystem working
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Overcome barriers
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Seize opportunities
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Create innovation
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Learn
Key outputs (3):
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Social entrepreneurial ventures:
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identifying their current stage in the Social
Venture Life Cycle (discover, aggregate, qualify,
select, incubate, scale, and celebrate)
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focusing on moving to the next stage
Key outputs (4):
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CSTS partners/clients meet their objectives
more effectively and more efficiently
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Potential downstream Revenue opportunities for
CSTS
Research data generated
KnowledeX update
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www.knowledex.org
is live!
2008 Tech Laureates
are participating
Prototype Laureate
database
CSTS Social Innovation Platform–
Design and Development
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Social Kinetics
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Consulting services
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Pilot site development
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Intelligence layer for learning
communities
Timetable
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Launch pilot with water
projects: late November
Q&A
Your ideas and support are
always welcome!