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Brij Kothari
Dr. Brij Kothari (Cornell University) and his team have innovated, researched, and nationalized the use of "Same Language Subtitling" (SLS) on Bollywood film songs on TV, for mass literacy in India. He laid the foundation for the SLS project as an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) in its Centre for Educational Innovation.
Brij is an Ashoka Fellow and the President of PlanetRead, a non-profit involved in scaling SLS efforts in India and other countries. He is also the CEO of BookBox Inc, a for-profit social venture producing children's animated stories in more than 25 languages. He co-founded PlanetRead.org and BookBox.com as a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University.
Brij grew up in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry and went on to get a Masters in Physics at IIT Kanpur, a Masters in Development Communication and a Ph.D. in Education from Cornell University. His doctoral research was on the conservation of local knowledge in Andean Ecuador. |
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Stuart Gannes
Stuart Gannes served as the Director of Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship at Stanford University. Prior to that, he was the Vice President for Advanced Development and Internet Applications at AT&T Labs, Menlo Park, California. Stuart was also Director of Improvenet and Founder & CEO of Books At Work, an award-winning graphics software company that pioneered the use of PCs for home improvement and gardening applications.
Earlier he was an Associate Editor at Fortune Magazine for science and technology. Stuart has also worked as a journalist for Time, Discover and PC Letter, and is a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. Stuart earned a BA from the University of Michigan and an Ed.M. from Harvard University.
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