Science and Technology

China's Minister of Science and Technology presents REAP Director with distinguished collaborator award

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Wed, 11/11/2009 - 12:00

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Wan Gang, China's Minister of Science and Technology, and Bai Chunli, Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, presented REAP Director Scott Rozelle with the 2009 Award for Collaboration in Science and Technology in Beijing, China.

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Legalizing Human Rights in Africa - Fall Quarter

Thursday, December 3, 2009 | 6:00 PM -Thursday, December 3, 2009 | 7:30 PM

This 2009-10 interdisciplinary research workshop examines the trajectory of human rights discourse and institutions in Africa by means of regional and international comparisons. Africa is the third, and most recent, region to establish a regional human rights court, the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights (ACPHR). At this critical juncture in African human rights, there is an urgent need for deeper understandings and applications of the law of human rights.

This workshop will be of interest and benefit to faculty and graduate students conducting research in the following areas: African studies; human rights; law; anthropology; cultural studies; history; political science and international relations; philosophy; and sociology.

The workshop, coordinated by Helen Stacy (Law School, FSI), will meet once this quarter and between three and four times during the Winter and Spring quarters of the 2009-2010 academic year.

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Workshops

Aging in America in the Twenty-first Century: Demographic Forecasts from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society

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Context: The aging of the baby boom generation, the extension of life, and progressive increases in disability-free life expectancy have generated a dramatic demographic transition in the United States. Official government forecasts may, however, have inadvertently underestimated life expectancy, which would have major policy implications, since small differences in forecasts of life expectancy produce very large differences in the number of people surviving to an older age. This article presents a new set of population and life expectancy forecasts for the United States, focusing on transitions that will take place by midcentury.

Methods: Forecasts were made with a cohort-components methodology, based on the premise that the risk of death will be influenced in the coming decades by accelerated advances in biomedical technology that either delay the onset and age progression of major fatal diseases or that slow the aging process itself.

Findings: Results indicate that the current forecasts of the U.S. Social Security Administration and U.S. Census Bureau may underestimate the rise in life expectancy at birth for men and women combined, by 2050, from 3.1 to 7.9 years.

Conclusions: The cumulative outlays for Medicare and Social Security could be higher by $3.2 to $8.3 trillion relative to current government forecasts. This article discusses the implications of these results regarding the benefits and costs of an aging society and the prospect that health disparities could attenuate some of these changes.

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Journal Articles

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December 1, 2009

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The Milbank Quarterly

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John (Jack) W. Rowe

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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0009.2009.00581.x/full

The Impact of Technology Access on Protest Frequency in Authoritarian Regimes

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Korean Innovation Strategies for Regional Economic Development

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | 12:00 PM -Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | 1:15 PM

About the talk:

Despite a short history of economic development, Korea has produced a number of leading products; the Korean economy's success is based on the technological and innovative capabilities it has accumulated over several decades.

However, a major structural weakness is the concentration of its economic power in the capital city of Seoul and its outskirts, where most industrial firms are located. In addition, eastern Korea is more industrialized than the west. This technological and innovative imbalance will lead to a gloomy outlook for the Korean economy.

Having recognized this problem, over the past decade the central and regional governments have been making great efforts to enhance regional economic and innovative potential development. Daeduck Science Town, in the center of the Korean peninsula, along with a number of technoparks are evidence of these development strategies.

Dr. Chung will present and discuss the history and characteristics of Korean regional innovation strategies for this seminar.

About the speaker:

Dr. Chung received the Ph.D from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. He worked at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (FhG-ISI) in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been a senior researcher at the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI), under Korea's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).

In 2004, on the basis of his research work, Dr. Chung was selected as the youngest lifetime fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) (Korea's equivalent of the National Academy of Sciences). Since March 1, 2008, he has worked as Director of KAST's Policy Research Center.

In 2008 he established the William F. Miller School of MOT (Management of Technology) at Seoul's Konkuk University. Dr. Chung currently serves as Dean of the Miller MOT School.

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Seminars

China 2.0: The Rise of a Digital Superpower (May 2010)

China 2.0 at Stanford University, May 24-25, 2010

This two-day forum looks at the rise of China as a digital superpower.

May 2010 marks 15 years of China's first connection to the public Internet and 15 years of digital mobile communications. Home to 400 million online and 750 million mobile consumers, China is giving birth to innovative start-ups and established multi-billion dollar enterprises in social networking, games, video, music and e-commerce.

Companies thriving in China will increasingly shape the global digital economy, either by their sheer scale at home or through investments and mergers and acquisitions in the United States and other developed economies.

Join this invitation-only forum to meet with industry leaders from China and overseas to assess the likely future shape and implications of China's rise for consumers, industry players, investors, researchers and policy makers.

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China 2.0 Introduction	Video: Tencent, Taobao and Baidu	Enabling China's Mobile Market	Chinese Digital Music Scene
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TV & Online Video	e-Commerce	Online Games

	MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010
8:30 - 9:00	Registration and Light Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15	Session 1--Welcome Remarks and Introductory Presentation
	Marguerite Gong Hancock, Forum Co-Chair/Associate Director, SPRIE, Stanford University
	Duncan Clark, Forum Co-Chair/Chairman, BDA China; Visiting Scholar, SPRIE, Stanford University
9:15 - 10:00	Session 2--Case Studies of China 2.0 Leaders: Tencent, Taobao & Baidu
	Duncan Clark & Liu Ning, BDA China Presentation
	Moderator: Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes
10:00 - 10:45	Special Session--Reporting China 2.0
	Loretta Chao, Reporter, Beijing Bureau, The Wall Street Journal
	Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes
	Moderator: Daniel Sneider, Associate Director for Research, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
11:00 - 12:15	Session 3--Enabling China 2.0: Infrastructure, Devices and Access
	Håkan Eriksson, CTO, Ericsson presentation
	Stanley Chia, Senior Technology Consultant, Vodafone Group R&D
	Moderator: Duncan Clark, Forum Co-Chair/Chairman, BDA China; Visiting Scholar, SPRIE, Stanford University
12.15 - 1.15	Lunch
1.15 - 2.15	Session 4--Digital Music in China
	Gary Chen, CEO, Top100.cn presentation
	Eric Priest, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon presentation
	Moderator: Loretta Chao, Reporter, Beijing Bureau, The Wall Street Journal
2.15 - 3.45	Session 5--China's Future TV Landscape
	Graham Kill, CEO, Irdeto presentation
	Caroline Pan, Director-China Strategy Office, Intel presentation
	David Strehlow, Director of Marketing, Media Solutions, Huawei
	Moderator: Andrew Lih, Associate Professor, USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
3.45 - 4.00	Break
4.00 - 5.30	Session 6--e-Commerce in China
	James Jianzhang Liang, Co-Founder and Chairman, Ctrip
	Alan Tien, General Manager, PayPal Beibao China
	Fritz Demopoulos, CEO, Qunar.com
	Moderator: Mei Fong, Wall Street Journal Correspondent & Visiting Professor, USC Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism
5.30 - 6.30	Networking Reception
	TUESDAY, MAY 25, 2010
8:30 - 9:00	Registration and Light Breakfast
9.00 - 10.30	Session 7--Online & Mobile Games
	Jason Wang, Partner, Cypress River Advisors, LLC
	Ben Sternberg, Executive Director, Raine Group
	Lisa Cosmas Hanson, Managing Partner & Founder, Niko Partners
	Liu Ning, Principal Analyst - New Media, BDA China
	Moderator: Loretta Chao, Reporter, Beijing Bureau, The Wall Street Journal
10.45 - 12.15	Session 8--Financing China 2.0: VC & IPO Outlook
	York Chen, Founding Managing Partner, iDTechVentures presentation
	Olivier Glauser, Managing Director, Steamboat Ventures presentation
	Richard Hsu, Managing Director, Intel Capital China presentation
	David Lam, Managing Director, WI Harper Group presentation
	Moderator: Martin Haemmig, Senior Advisor on Venture Capital, Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
12.15 - 1.15	Lunch
1.15-2:45	Session 9--How Can Global Firms Thrive In & With China
	Alan Tien, General Manager, PayPal Bei Bao China
	Graham Kill, CEO, Irdeto
	Carter Agar, Former VP, GM, Walt Disney Internet Group (China), VP, Altius Education
	Jason Wang, Partner, Cypress River Advisors, LLC
	Moderator: Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes
3:00 - 4:30	Session 10--China 2.0 Firms: The Talent Dimension
	Mark Baldwin, CEO, Oxus and Founder, Zhaopin.com
	Kelly Sang, former General Manager, Alibaba.com Americas
	David Strehlow, Director of Marketing, Media Solutions, Huawei
	Moderator: Kyung H. Yoon, CEO, Talent Age Associates LLC
4:30 - 4:45	Wrap-up

Audience

Media & tech executives, entrepreneurs, academics and researchers, venture capitalists/private equity investors, policymakers.

Format

Presentations by the on-the-ground pioneers of China 2.0
Roundtable discussions on key issues and emerging trends
Premiere of "vox pop" video interviews of Chinese Internet users filmed in Beijing, Chengdu, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xiamen and Xi'an
Conference highlights to be available online (subject to speaker approval)
Interactive event, including a mobile application custom-made for participants

Participation and Pricing

Participation is by invitation-only. For more information, please contact SPRIE by email at sprie-stanford@stanford.edu.

The USD $50 fee covers conference sessions and materials, continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshments. A limited number of free spaces are available for current Stanford faculty, students and staff.

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Map and parking:

The conference is being held in the Bechtel Conference Center, located at 616 Serra Street on the first floor of Encina Hall. Free event parking is available at the Galvez Field Event Parking Lot, located at Galvez and Campus Drive East. It is less than .5 mile from the parking lot to the event. If you park at a meter, be aware that parking is $1.50/hour and is monitored from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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