Cisco Impact Philanthropy is about building strong and productive global communities -- communities in which every individual has the means to live, the opportunity to learn, and the chance to give back. Any one of these essentials is enough to make a difference in the present, but it takes all three to set in motion an enduring cycle of health and prosperity.

Our goal is to identify nonprofits that do outstanding work in one or more segments of the cycle, as shown at right. We support such organizations as they respond to communities in immediate distress, and we help expand their long-term capacity by encouraging the innovative integration of technology into their operational strategies.

The result? Nonprofits reach new levels of productivity, and chronic intervention steadily gives way to lasting transformation. That's what sets our philanthropy apart. That's the Cisco Impact.

The City of San José is sponsoring the "People's Choice" Award for the ZeroOne San Jose Festival, a residency at the Norman J. Mineta San Jose International Airport by London-based artists Ben Hooker and Shona Kitchen, and hosting the Global Leadership Forum on Economic and Cultural Development. From its founding in 1777 as California's first city, San Jose has been a leader, driven by its spirit of innovation. San José has a world-renowned quality of life, offering a wide variety of exciting cultural, recreational, and educational and entertainment opportunities. In addition, San José has the nation's best public safety record of any metropolitan area, a marvelous ethnic diversity and a beautiful climate. The largest city in Northern California, San José stands as the Capital of Silicon Valley and is committed to remaining a top-ranked place to work, play and live. For more information, visit, www.sanjoseca.gov

San Jose State University is Academic Host and sponsor of ISEA2006 and The Pacific Rim New Media Summit. CADRE is sponsor of Karaoke Ice residency with Katie Salen, Nancy Nowacek and Marina Zurkow and On Translation: Social Networks by Antoni Muntadas.

San José State provides a comprehensive university education, granting bachelor's and master's degrees in 134 areas of study. Quality teaching and small classes are a priority at SJSU, where tenured professors teach introductory as well as advanced courses. One of the 200 top research universities in the nation, SJSU offers rigorous course work and research opportunities to more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students in eight colleges.

The CADRE Laboratory for New Media is an interdisciplinary academic and research program dedicated to the experimental use of information technology and art. A theoretical and critical orientation provides a conceptual context in which artistic activities are defined. Faculty and students have participated in the evolution of media technology for over 15 years.

Barco is a world leader in professional markets, in which it offers display and visualization solutions. Based upon in-depth market knowledge, the company designs and develops solutions for large-screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection.

Currently Barco is active in the markets of medical imaging, defense & security, traffic management, avionics, media, events, digital cinema, presentation, simulation, traffic & surveillance, utilities & process control, broadcasting and textiles & plastics.

Barco is headquartered in Belgium, and has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, America and Asia-Pacific. Worldwide, Barco employs about 4,200 people and realized sales of euro 712 million in 2005.

Comerica Bank, one of the nation’s top 25 financial services companies, focuses on relationships, and helping businesses and people be successful. Comerica Bank’s western market, headquartered in San Jose, includes 58 banking centers in key California markets, including: San Jose, San Francisco and the East Bay, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Fresno, Sacramento, and Santa Cruz /Monterey; four banking centers in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Ariz.; and offices in Washington, Nevada and Colorado.

IDEO has sponsored a residency with Cobi van Tonder for the ZeroOne San Jose Festival and ISEA2006 Symposium. There will also be a exhibition of IDEO's work and processes at the Palo Alto Arts Center during the Festival.

IDEO helps companies innovate. We design products, services, environments, and digital experiences.

“Head in the sky...” IDEO’s teams, culture, and methods are the special ingredients that fuel our approach to innovation and design. We begin with a deep exploration of business, human, and technical factors. Observe. Brainstorm. Prototype. Repeat.

Point of View. Essence. Heart. “...ness.” Whatever you call it, it’s there: a shared mindset, the place where the efforts of our problem-solving engine converge. Expressed in a visible and tangible way, it informs and inspires the design process.

“...feet on the ground.” What’s a good idea worth if it can’t be realized? IDEO’s world-class designers and engineers ensure that the power of the vision is preserved in the journey from concept to final production.

Knight Ridder is a communications company engaged primarily in newspaper and Internet publishing. It is the nation’s second-largest newspaper publisher in terms of circulation, with papers in more large cities than any other company. In 2004, it produced revenue of $3.0 billion.

Knight Ridder’s goal is to be pre-eminent in news, information and advertising in its markets: developing high-value products and services to complement our traditional businesses; growing reader and advertising share every year; reaching a majority of adults every day; holding the dominant share of local online consumer and advertiser business.

The Hotel Montgomery is a treasure of San Jose that was considered cutting edge when it opened in 1911, and with this renovation has once again established itself as a bastion of taste, comfort, innovation and style. Today's techy traveler will be quite content to discover the Hotel Montgomery, a chic and contemporary environment where they can tap on their laptop or mingle with fellow business travelers in style.

The addition of Paragon Restaurant & Bar offers guests a clubby and contemporary environment that includes an impressive collection of almost 100 vodkas that are chilled and frosted while resting on custom ice shelves behind the bar.

The Paragon Plaza features the unusual presence of bocce ball courts. Its location makes it desirable for corporate and group travelers, with close proximity to the Convention Center, the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Opera San Jose, and the HP Pavilion.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been making grants since 1966 to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world.

The Foundation concentrates its resources on activities in education, environment, global development, performing arts, and population. In addition, the Foundation has programs that make grants to advance the field of philanthropy, and to support disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

David and Lucile Packard believed America to be the home of a unique type of organization dependent upon private funding and volunteer leadership. Together, universities, national institutions, community groups, youth agencies, family planning centers, and hospitals constitute a great American tradition that complements government efforts to focus on society's needs.

For more than 65 years, HP has combined its ingenuity, engineering prowess and customer focus to help people around the world apply technology in meaningful ways to their businesses, personal lives and communities.

We engineer and design trusted, reliable products and services to help businesses and communities thrive and help people do the things they want to do so they can enjoy more of life. We focus on creating value and understanding our customers - working side-by-side to jointly develop solutions that make our customers' experience with technology more simple and manageable.

NEC Corporation of America is a leading technology provider of network, IT and visual display solutions. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, NEC Corporation of America is the North America subsidiary of NEC Corporation (NASDAQ: NIPNY), and delivers technology and professional services ranging from server and storage solutions, digital presentation and visual display systems to biometric security, optical network, radio communications and IP voice and data solutions. NEC Corporation of America serves carrier and both SMB and large enterprise clients across multiple vertical industries. For more information, please visit www.necam.com.

Divco West Properties has over time and through commitment emerged as a market leader in private real estate investment. Since its inception in 1993, Divco West has acquired, managed, and leased over 15 million square feet and disposed of over nine million square feet of commercial properties in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Phoenix and other markets. Divco currently has over $898 million in assets under management. In late 2003, the Company announced the closing of Page Mill Properties, L.P., a $290 million real estate equity fund focused on acquiring commercial real estate assets in Northern California and other technology-dominant markets.

Divco West Properties focuses on uncovering overlooked, distressed and undervalued opportunities while enhancing the experience of our tenants through unparalleled service and improved facilities. As a full service real estate investment and management company, Divco takes a proactive, hands-on approach to real estate investment that is dedicated to creating value through efficient management, aggressive leasing and targeted capital improvements. Our core capabilities include deal sourcing and structuring; acquisitions, sales, leasing and financing; entitlements; development; and managing institutional-quality commercial real estate.

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Sun Microsystems Laboratories has sponsored a residency by Mumbai-based artist, Ashok Sukumaran.

The Participation Age is built on a model of networked human beings who share, interact and solve problems. Their participation creates ideas, information, opportunites, entertainment and value - social and economic - everywhere on the network.

The NEA is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Arts Endowment is the largest national funder of the arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities, and military bases.

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After 30 years of presenting a wide variety of independent film -- including foreign, underground and re-released classics -- and more recently the latest Hollywood releases, the Camera Cinemas have become an important institution in the local film community. Our theaters have made vital contributions to the cultural life of San Jose, Campbell and Los Gatos, and, most importantly, have become a symbol of the very loyal and committed support of their audiences, people like you.

The mission of The James Irvine Foundation is to expand opportunity for the people of California to participate in a vibrant, successful and inclusive society.

The purpose of the Flora Family Foundation is to promote selected activities of charitable organizations and institutions as determined by members of the Board and Family Council. It is predicated on the belief that each individual has an obligation to go beyond the narrow confines of his or her personal interests and be mindful of the broader concerns of humanity. The Foundation pursues these goals in order to provide the descendants of William and Flora Hewlett with a vehicle for philanthropic activity. The Flora Family Foundation, incorporated as a private foundation in the State of California late in 1998, was established by the family of William and Flora Lamson Hewlett, for whom the Foundation is named.

OnSSI is a NY-based market leader in non-proprietary, open-architecture IP Video Delivery solutions. OnSSI’s Camera Management/Recording platforms and Virtual Matrix Switches are geared toward intelligent event detection, convergence with physical security systems, and comprehensive video distribution to users via multiple clients. OnSSI currently powers over 7,500 IP Video Delivery systems.

Applied Materials is the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions for the electronics industry with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, services and software products. Applied Materials applies nanomanufacturing technology to improve the way people live. Because the company measures its value as a global citizen, in part, by its efforts to make a positive social contribution in communities where it does business, Applied Materials commits one percent of pre-tax income to support charitable organizations and initiatives focused on education, civic development and arts & culture.

IBM is the fourth largest high tech employer in the Bay Area, employing approximately 7,000 people. The company’s San Jose-based research and development expertise is an ongoing source of innovation that has contributed to IBM’s lead among all companies worldwide in U.S. patents for thirteen consecutive years. The world's first facility devoted exclusively to computer software development, today IBM Silicon Valley Lab is one of the largest software development complexes in California. One of eight laboratories worldwide that make up IBM Research, Almaden Research Center is advancing fundamental scientific understanding in areas such as database research, computer science, physical and materials science, and storage systems. Other major activities at IBM's Burlingame, Menlo Park, Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo, San Ramon, and Santa Cruz facilities include a diverse portfolio of software development for the IBM DB2, WebSphere, and Rational software brands; storage software and hardware development; venture capital relations; services; and sales. For more information, visit www.ibm.com.

The Mondriaan Foundation was created to stimulate visual arts, design and the cultural heritage from the Netherlands.

We are committed to strengthening the international position of contemporary visual arts and design, and we accomplish this by offering financial support to enable institutions, companies and authorities, both national and international, to reach their audience and extend that reach.

Simultaneously we also believe it to be important that artists, professionals and the public in the Netherlands are able to have an accurate conception as to the latest international developments. To this end we stimulate initiatives designed to bring foreign projects of topical interest to the Netherlands.

Our international ambitions are in line with our primary goal of increasing interest in, and demand for, contemporary visual arts, design and cultural heritage from the Netherlands.

www.mondriaanfoundation.nl

Jim and I were fortunate to have been transferred to Silicon Valley in 1968. As small town, farmers' children by birth, we have benefited from the growth and prosperity of the region. Our desire to give back stems from our gratitude for our good fortune and our belief that those who are so blessed have a unique responsibility to help others. The Morgan Family Foundation is our effort to make a difference by helping individuals and organizations reach their full potential, just as we have been helped over the years to reach our goals. We believe that whether wealth is earned or inherited, it is important to help others and to do our part to leave some part of the world better than we found it.

Giving back to the community has been an essential part of eBay since the very beginning. In 1998, with a donation of 107,250 shares of pre-IPO stock, eBay created a charitable fund known as the eBay Foundation™. Today, eBay Foundation remains an important part of eBay and serves as the primary vehicle through which eBay contributes to community organizations. Annually, eBay Foundation provides grants to numerous non-profit groups that are working to make local communities better places to live and work.

1stACT (Arts, Creativity, Technology) is a cross-sector collaborative that seeks to ensure that the role arts and cultural activities play in building a region of innovation is understood and valued in Silicon Valley.

Brothaman/Stablished, a motion graphics design collective founded by collaborators Ratha Nou and Fred Vieux, launched 18 months ago in 2005. Veterans of design school with a long-term vision for art and life – their fresh approach to motion graphics includes incorporating the best work of emerging artists in the field with the qualities of seasoned client services. As a design studio their portfolio of services includes: illustration, traditional animation, 3D animation, fine art, print design, and motion graphics.

GoCar, located in San Francisco, renters of the world first GPS Guided Story Telling cars powered by ZeeZou gps tour software is sponsor of the C5 Quest for Success. Nominated by Time Magazine as one of the most innovative technologies of the year, GoCar and ZeeZou combine to provide a unique smart car based experience.

Smart Design has a 25-year history of turning insight and innovation into successful consumer products, communications, environments and brands. The firm’s multi-disciplinary approach brings together experts in product, graphic and interaction design, engineering, and design research to ensure that its solutions connect with people. Smart’s consistent results are delivered by its international staff of 70, working in teams across offices in New York, San Francisco and Barcelona.

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Pro Helvetia is a foundation under public law dedicated to promoting cultural endeavours of nationwide interest. Founded in 1939, it is funded entirely by the Swiss Confederation. Its annual budget for the year 2005 is 33 million Swiss francs.

The Arts Council is intent on providing Swiss cultural practitioners with the best possible conditions for the creation and dissemination of their works. It helps them to optimize their impact at home and abroad and fosters encounters with artists from other countries.

Pro Helvetia also devises its own programmes in priority areas. These areas include fostering mutual understanding in Switzerland, intercultural dialogue, popular culture and dance.

The organization and mission of the Arts Council are set out in the 1965 law concerning Pro Helvetia.

The Asian Cultural Council is a foundation supporting cultural exchange in the visual and performing arts between the United States and the countries of Asia.

Asian Cultural Council

For more than 50 years, Community Foundation Silicon Valley has been helping improve the quality of life for people in Silicon Valley.

It has touched the lives of many, from the people who benefit from its grants and endowments to the people looking for the most efficient way to give back to their own community.

Emfit is a manufacturer of innovative, dynamic thin-film sensors for a variety of applications. The company focuses in biomedical applications. The latest development the non-body-contact vital signs monitor (DVM), which is used to introduce a novel kind of interactive cinema genre to be presented in cooperation with the enactive movie OBSESSION during the Zero One festival in San Jose.

Horn Murdock Cole provides accounting, finance and information technology consulting services with national coverage through a growing network of offices in 10 major metropolitan areas. Whether you require a few top caliber consultants locally or a large, coordinated team across our national network, HMC delivers results based on your specific needs.

Today’s complex accounting and information technology landscape requires partners with a solutions-orientation. Horn Murdock Cole not only has the most experience in its consulting services segment, but also the greatest focus on vertical specialization. We understand your industry, the marketplace and challenges. As a result, we provide you with precisely the talent you need – and that sets us apart. Our structure also enables us to be flexible - whether you need the complete outsourcing of a project, or a subject matter expert to support your internal staff. HMC provides a full solution, from assessing the project scope and designing a project plan, to managing the staffing and execution of those plans.

Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products, and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Explore the many ways Intel's belief in innovation has defined our corporate identity.

Knight Foundation’s twin missions are to seed and inspire great journalism everywhere, and to build strong communities in the 26 cities and towns where our founders ran newspapers.

As a national foundation with local roots, we seek opportunities that can transform both communities and journalism, and help them reach their highest potential. We believe nothing big happens without a big idea, nothing new without a new idea. In every project we fund, the idea comes first.

Every day, we ask the question, of ourselves and our partners, ‘Is this the best there is?’ We seek out leaders who ask the same, who can identify the best opportunities and turn the big ideas into action.

SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software*. Today, more than 33,200 customers in more than 120 countries run SAP® applications—from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small and midsize enterprises to suite offerings for global organizations. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver® platform to drive innovation and enable business change, SAP software helps enterprises of all sizes around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. SAP solution portfolios support the unique business processes of more than 25 industries, including high tech, retail, financial services, healthcare and the public sector. With subsidiaries in more than 50 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol “SAP.” (Additional information at http://www.sap.com)

(*) SAP defines business software as comprising enterprise resource planning and related applications such as supply chain management, customer relationship management, product life-cycle management and supplier relationship management.

Habitat is the Canadian Film Centre's new media lab. Created in 1997, Habitat New Media Lab provides a unique training and production think-tank environment designed for both emerging and accomplished new media content developers. Based on a cycle of training, production and community building Habitat New Media Lab is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning training and production facility.Habitat New Media Lab recognizes that as technologies revolutionize our lives, new opportunities for writers, designers, producers, programmers, filmmakers, visual artists and creative thinkers are emerging. More importantly, the need for talented, forward thinking and technology-savvy content creators is becoming more critical than ever.Habitat is committed to nurturing the development of new talent and new projects for the Canadian and international industry and to push this evolution forward. Attracting residents who are drawn to one-of-a-kind training and production environment - encouraging exploration, entrepreneurial drive and boundless imagination - Habitat provides the highest level of analytical and practical new media training in Canada.

Cycling '74 was founded in 1997 by David Zicarelli to sell some of the software he had lying around the house. The company currently has 22 full- or part-time employees and consultants scattered around in various places, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Plum produces VoiceXML interpreter software and VoiceXML gateways. Plum also provides hosting for VoiceXML applications via secure and redundant datacenters. Hundreds of applications have been built on the Plum VoiceXML IVR platform by Plum, partners, and enterprise developers.

An arm of the United Kingdom's international organization for educational and cultural relations, the British Council USA increases recognition of the wide array of learning opportunities available in the UK and facilitates educational cooperation between the US and UK. The organization also showcases British creativity by introducing the American public to high-quality, groundbreaking artistic achievement, and highlights the UK's scientific innovation in disciplines ranging from biotechnology to planetary science. Through its work, the British Council USA endeavors to promote an image of the UK that is up-to-date, vibrant, in the vanguard of new thinking and fully representative of the country's geographic and cultural diversity.

Arts Council Silicon Valley is a private, nonprofit arts organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for Santa Clara County residents by creating and fostering arts and culture throughout the region.

As a grantmaking agency, we provide funding and fundraising support services to more than 140 local arts organizations and individual artists. We also provide advocacy, marketing, and support services to more than 600 local arts organizations and strive to help make the arts accessible to our youth.

As the official state and local partner with the California Arts Council and the County of Santa Clara, we are now the largest private nonprofit arts council in the state.

FileMaker Pro is used by millions of individuals and workgroups around the world to be more productive and efficient. Business, education and government customers rely on FileMaker to manage people, projects, images, assets and other information. In addition to being the number one-selling easy-to-use database software, the award-winning FileMaker product line also includes low-cost Applications that automate basic business tasks, ready-to-use Starter Solutions, and tools to create and share solutions from the desktop to the web. FileMaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc (AAPL).

Magellan® is the consumer brand of Thales Navigation, one of the world's leading innovators of navigation and positioning solutions with operations worldwide. Magellan was the brand that introduced the first consumer handheld GPS solution in 1989, and it has maintained its place as a leading global GPS brand for consumers.

We eat, drink, and sleep SMS technology. If you can find another firm that provides the same expertise, creativity, and enthusiasm as Unwired Appeal, we will eat our text-messages. Founder-backed/operated and fueled by constant innovation, UA sets the industry standards for technology and customer service.

The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach.

We promote knowledge of the German language abroad and foster international cultural cooperation. We convey a comprehensive picture of Germany by providing information on Germany's cultural, social and political life.

Since 1930, San Jose Blue has served as the model for quality reprographic services in the heart of the Silicon Valley. In 1996, the company's name was shortened from San Jose Blueprint to San Jose Blue to reflect changing markets and technologies while maintaining linkage to the origins of our business. Today, San Jose Blue's technologically, advanced equipment and processes, professional staff, multiple locations, pickup and delivery, and 24 hours service are an assurance of superior work completed on schedule. San Jose Blue is certified in all PlanWell products, can scan, vectorize, or even redraft your hardcopy to a perfect CAD file and offers electronic work orders.

Individuals and businesses all over the world have found Intellisys to be the most uncomplicated and effective project management tool for Mac, Linux, Unix and Windows.

Intellisys Project Desktop is a visual tool to help plan and track business or home projects. It helps you organize the tasks in a complex project, assign budgets, estimate completion times and costs, create dependencies among tasks, and automatically schedule the tasks in a logical way. Print profesional reports and charts. Track progress and costs for your project. Read and write MS Project files. Get the functionality of MS Project, without the complexity and feature-clutter.

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Consulate General of France in San Francisco is pleased to support the participation of French artist Olga Kisseleva in ZeroOne SanJose/ISEA2006.

Axis Communications is the global market leader in network video products and the leading independent provider of print servers. Axis has been developing solutions that add value to networks since 1984. With about 700,000 professional network video products and over 3 million networking products sold, Axis has the experience to meet customers' networking needs.

Lockheed Martin is committed to a program of philanthropy that supports the Corporation’s strategic business goals and invests in the quality of life in the communities where our employees work and live. Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., the Corporation employs about 135,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services.

The Steelcase Foundation was established in 1951 to make grants to non-profit organizations, projects and programs in the communities where our employees live and work. The Foundation focuses on the areas of human service, health, education, community development, the arts and the environment -- giving particular concern to people who are disadvantaged, disabled, young and elderly as they attempt to improve the quality of their lives.

Catered Too is a catering company located in San Jose, California. Large or small, we can make your special day an Event to Remember.

LiteScape Technologies, Inc. develops enterprise software that enhances the value and utility of IP Telephony. By extending interactive voice, text and image capabilities to telephones and other IP devices, LiteScape solutions improve business communications, employee productivity and the customer experience.

Pietra Santa is a family-run estate creating artisanal wines and olive oils in the beautiful Cienega Valley just 25 miles from Monterey Bay. The proximity to the Coast provides cooling, maritime breezes that result in vibrant and flavorful wines. The wines also benefit from the estate's granite and limestone soils, much like soils found in the best vineyards in the world. The winery is named Pietra Santa or "Sacred Stone" in honor of these unique soils.

Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada supports Canadians abroad; helps Canadian companies succeed in global markets; promotes Canada's culture and values; and works to build a more peaceful and secure world.

Together Dan and Dean opened the first Gordon Biersch brewery restaurant in Palo Alto in 1988. Since then, they have opened additional brewery restaurants in five western states, including California, Hawaii, Nevada, Arizona and Washington. Gordon Biersch serves authentic German style lagers made on the premises. The Gordon Biersch menu consists of appetizers and entrees influenced by a variety of cuisines, all designed to complement Dan's signature lager beer.

Amicis Pizzeria
Hawg’s Seafood Bar and Grill
Loft Bar and Bistro
Ari Salomon
The Old Spaghetti Factory
Zanotto’s Downtown Market