"The land of the free has become a legal minefield, says Philip K. Howard -- especially for teachers and doctors, whose work has been paralyzed by fear of suits. What's the answer? A lawyer himself, Howard has four propositions for simplifying US law."
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Showing posts with label ted. Show all posts
Monday, July 12, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
TEDxTalk: Cameron Herold, "Let's Raise Kids to be Entrepreneurs"
Great talk by Cameron Herold.
Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. At TEDxEdmonton, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish -- as kids and as adults.
Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. At TEDxEdmonton, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish -- as kids and as adults.
Friday, June 11, 2010
TEDTalks: Michael Sandel on The Lost Art of Democratic Debate
I like Professor Michael Sandel a lot. I heard him speak a few times and enjoyed every one of his presentations. I even referenced one of those talks in one of my articles for InsideWork ("Communicating to Connect").
Democracy thrives on civil debate, Michael Sandel says -- but we're shamefully out of practice. He leads a fun refresher, with TEDsters sparring over a recent Supreme Court case (PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin) whose outcome reveals the critical ingredient in justice.
Democracy thrives on civil debate, Michael Sandel says -- but we're shamefully out of practice. He leads a fun refresher, with TEDsters sparring over a recent Supreme Court case (PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin) whose outcome reveals the critical ingredient in justice.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
TEDTalk: Gary Lauder's New Traffic Sign - Take Turns
Gary Lauder is the co-creator of the Socrates Society at the Aspen Institute along with his wife, and I am happy to say that I've been a part of and enjoy their events.
Gary spoke at this year's TED about changing from stop signs to roundabouts like they have in Europe. Great presentation and great idea! Summary from TED:
Fifty percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder shares a brilliant and cheap idea for helping drivers move along smoothly: a new traffic sign that combines the properties of "Stop" and "Yield" -- and asks drivers to be polite.
Gary spoke at this year's TED about changing from stop signs to roundabouts like they have in Europe. Great presentation and great idea! Summary from TED:
Fifty percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder shares a brilliant and cheap idea for helping drivers move along smoothly: a new traffic sign that combines the properties of "Stop" and "Yield" -- and asks drivers to be polite.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
TEDxSoMa: David Sibbet
My fellow Coro alum and current board colleague at Coro Northern California speaking at TEDxSoMA. David Sibbet was the creator of graphic facilitation.
Friday, March 12, 2010
What Motivates Your Heart?
My article at InsideWork is up and also reposted below. Heads up since it has religious references.
What Motivates Your Heart?
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
Recently I watched Dan Pink’s TEDTalk where he sought to answer the question of what motivates people.
Pink talked about Karl Duncker’s candle problem and variations of his experiment that explored the science of motivation. One experiment asked a group to solve this problem and explained that it would be timed to established norms. A second group was offered financial incentives. If you were in the top 20% of the fastest times, you would receive five dollars. If you were the fastest of everyone, you would receive twenty dollars.
The results were obvious, right? The second group, motivated by financial incentives, took on average 3.5 minutes longer. Yes, longer. Would this work in third world countries and developing economies? Yes. This study has been replicated over 40 years across numerous cultures.
What is basic knowledge in the social sciences should have been an epiphany in the corporate world, but this hasn’t occurred yet. Dan Pink went on to explain how extrinsic motivators, such as carrots and money, work for simple tasks, but not for complicated tasks.
He stated, “If you want engagement, self-direction works better.”
As long as the task involved only mechanical skill, bonuses worked as they would be expected: the higher the pay, the better the performance. But once the task called for “even rudimentary cognitive skill,” a larger reward “led to poorer performance.
— D. Adriely, U. Gneezy, G. Lowenstein, & N. Mazar, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Pink’s talk sent me back to my high school years where I recalled listening to the common sermon on storing up treasures in heaven (Matthew 6: 19-14) and being turned off. I remember thinking as a young believer, “Why would the idea of storing up riches in heaven motivate me at all? If accumulating wealth didn’t interest me as a non-believer, why would it interest me as a believer?”
Reflecting back on all those sermons, I don’t remember a pastor ever analyzing this and bringing out God’s wisdom that was as insightful as Dan Pink’s talk. Maybe these pastors should have read what Pink discovered. Of course, part of my lack of recall could have been due to my own ignorance since I incorrectly assumed these pastors were discussing a similar monetary system would be established in heaven as on earth. Heavenly dollars? Who cares about storing up treasures in heaven?
Now since I’m a bit older and a little more informed, I realized after listening to Pink’s talk that God already knew this about us.
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21
The treasure that motivates us in what’s in our hearts. Hopefully as believers it’s Christ and God’s words for us. It’s not a promise of material wealth that will motivate people to change and live a life to glorify God, but the relationship that God offers—the daily sanctuary, peace, joy, wisdom and love that he freely gives.
John MacArthur has a great story on this:
During the time of the Decian persecution in Rome, the Roman authorities broke into a certain church thinking they could loot their treasures. The Roman prefect who was in charge stepped up to one saint named Laurentius and said, “Show me your treasures at once.” Laurentius pointed to a group of widows and orphans who happened to be eating a meal and said, “There are the treasures of the church. We have invested all we have in them.” That is treasure in heaven. Beloved, remember that what we keep we lose, and what we invest with God we gain eternally.
So if pastors and Christian leaders would pierce into God’s wisdom on the question of what motivates people, how would this reflect on their sermons? Their actions?
As business executives and managers, how does this affect your approach in working with your colleagues? I assume, to understand people better, you would first have to learn more about them and try to see where their hearts lie. This sounds like a commitment of time to me. Some people are open books, but most take time to reveal their hearts. If you can’t find any widows and orphans, investing in the people around you is a good start to building up your treasures in heaven.
What Motivates Your Heart?
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
Recently I watched Dan Pink’s TEDTalk where he sought to answer the question of what motivates people.
Pink talked about Karl Duncker’s candle problem and variations of his experiment that explored the science of motivation. One experiment asked a group to solve this problem and explained that it would be timed to established norms. A second group was offered financial incentives. If you were in the top 20% of the fastest times, you would receive five dollars. If you were the fastest of everyone, you would receive twenty dollars.
The results were obvious, right? The second group, motivated by financial incentives, took on average 3.5 minutes longer. Yes, longer. Would this work in third world countries and developing economies? Yes. This study has been replicated over 40 years across numerous cultures.
What is basic knowledge in the social sciences should have been an epiphany in the corporate world, but this hasn’t occurred yet. Dan Pink went on to explain how extrinsic motivators, such as carrots and money, work for simple tasks, but not for complicated tasks.
He stated, “If you want engagement, self-direction works better.”
As long as the task involved only mechanical skill, bonuses worked as they would be expected: the higher the pay, the better the performance. But once the task called for “even rudimentary cognitive skill,” a larger reward “led to poorer performance.
— D. Adriely, U. Gneezy, G. Lowenstein, & N. Mazar, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Pink’s talk sent me back to my high school years where I recalled listening to the common sermon on storing up treasures in heaven (Matthew 6: 19-14) and being turned off. I remember thinking as a young believer, “Why would the idea of storing up riches in heaven motivate me at all? If accumulating wealth didn’t interest me as a non-believer, why would it interest me as a believer?”
Reflecting back on all those sermons, I don’t remember a pastor ever analyzing this and bringing out God’s wisdom that was as insightful as Dan Pink’s talk. Maybe these pastors should have read what Pink discovered. Of course, part of my lack of recall could have been due to my own ignorance since I incorrectly assumed these pastors were discussing a similar monetary system would be established in heaven as on earth. Heavenly dollars? Who cares about storing up treasures in heaven?
Now since I’m a bit older and a little more informed, I realized after listening to Pink’s talk that God already knew this about us.
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21
The treasure that motivates us in what’s in our hearts. Hopefully as believers it’s Christ and God’s words for us. It’s not a promise of material wealth that will motivate people to change and live a life to glorify God, but the relationship that God offers—the daily sanctuary, peace, joy, wisdom and love that he freely gives.
John MacArthur has a great story on this:
During the time of the Decian persecution in Rome, the Roman authorities broke into a certain church thinking they could loot their treasures. The Roman prefect who was in charge stepped up to one saint named Laurentius and said, “Show me your treasures at once.” Laurentius pointed to a group of widows and orphans who happened to be eating a meal and said, “There are the treasures of the church. We have invested all we have in them.” That is treasure in heaven. Beloved, remember that what we keep we lose, and what we invest with God we gain eternally.
So if pastors and Christian leaders would pierce into God’s wisdom on the question of what motivates people, how would this reflect on their sermons? Their actions?
As business executives and managers, how does this affect your approach in working with your colleagues? I assume, to understand people better, you would first have to learn more about them and try to see where their hearts lie. This sounds like a commitment of time to me. Some people are open books, but most take time to reveal their hearts. If you can’t find any widows and orphans, investing in the people around you is a good start to building up your treasures in heaven.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
TEDTalk: Dan Barber "How I Fell In Love With A Fish"
One of my favorite presentations at TED this year. Dan Barber talks about a revolutionary farming method in Spain. Insightful and informative. Check it out!
"Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie's honeymoon he's enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fish raised using a revolutionary farming method in Spain."
"Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie's honeymoon he's enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fish raised using a revolutionary farming method in Spain."
Friday, March 5, 2010
TED 2010: The LXD: In the Internet age, dance evolves...
We got a sneak preview of The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers at TED. They were pretty amazing and are performing at the Oscars this Sunday. After the intro, if you want to skip the talk by the producer, just go to 4:45.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
What the World Needs Now: The TEDActive Music Video
"When the John Lennon bus drove up to TEDActive, attendees got the chance to collaborate on a music video to share their ideas for what the world needs now.
Jill Sobule, John Doe, Sara Watkins, Stuart Johnson, Don Was, Dave Way, Krish Sharma and the amazing team on the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus came together to write, perform and produce an original song, on-site during the conference. Aaron Koblin directed the video, and the TEDActive community turned their ideas into illustrations, with a little help from artist Jansen Yee."
Jill Sobule, John Doe, Sara Watkins, Stuart Johnson, Don Was, Dave Way, Krish Sharma and the amazing team on the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus came together to write, perform and produce an original song, on-site during the conference. Aaron Koblin directed the video, and the TEDActive community turned their ideas into illustrations, with a little help from artist Jansen Yee."
Monday, February 22, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
TEDTalk: Bill Gates on Energy: Innovating to Zero!
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.
Monday, February 15, 2010
TED Reviews & Links
Unlike TED 2008, I didn't blog actively or daily this year. Some of reasoning was that I was only able to stay for two-thirds of the conference due to our twin girls. The other part of it was because I had work to do during the evenings and couldn't devote the mental energy to effectively reflect upon each day.
Anyway, here are some news and blog reviews of this year's TED:
"Wisdom: Roundup of TED2010, Session 12" TED Blog
Primarily a photo blog.
"David Cameron at TED" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog
"Heroes and Villains at TED" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog
"Thought experiments at TED" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog
"Sergey Brin on Google China at TED" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog
"Introducing TED Fellow: Daniel Zoughbie" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog
"Bill Gates Goes Nuclear" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog
"TED 2010: Halting Blood Vessels Key to New Cancer Treatment; Possibly Obesity" WIRED's Epicenter
"TED 2010: Reality Is Broken. Game Designers Must Fix It" WIRED's Epicenter
"TED 2010: The Price in Human Suffering of Being Open-Minded" WIRED's Epicenter
"TED 2010: Death Star Laser Gun Zaps Mosquitoes Dead" WIRED's Epicenter
"TED 2010: Google Optimistic It Can Remain in China" WIRED's Epicenter
"TED 2010: Wired for the iPad to Launch by Summer" WIRED's Epicenter
"TED 2010: Transformative Transparency" Fresh Influence blog
"TED 2010: Id and Identity Online" Fresh Influence blog
"TED 2010: Innovation NOW" Fresh Influence blog
"Jake Shimabukuro at TED2010" BoingBoing
"TED 2010 in 100 Tweets" Bill Gross
"Highlights from TED 2010, Day One" Brain Pickings
"Highlights from TED 2010: Day Two" Brain Pickings
"TED 2010 Day Three: A New Kind of Middle School and Bill Gates on Energy Miracles" HBR's Anthony Tjan
"TED 2010: Day 3" MIT Sloan Management Review
"TED 2010: Day 4 and Wrapup" MIT Sloan Management Review
"Kevin Bales at TED: We Can End Slavery" Tonic
"Notes From TED: Can Simplicity and Innovation Overcome Complexity and Cynicism?" The Huffington Post
"Bill Gates: We need global 'energy miracles'" CNN
"Ten big ideas from TED" CNN
Anyway, here are some news and blog reviews of this year's TED:
"Wisdom: Roundup of TED2010, Session 12" TED Blog
Primarily a photo blog.
"David Cameron at TED" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog
"Heroes and Villains at TED" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog
"Thought experiments at TED" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog
"Sergey Brin on Google China at TED" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog
"Introducing TED Fellow: Daniel Zoughbie" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog
"Bill Gates Goes Nuclear" BusinessWeek's NEXT blog
"TED 2010: Halting Blood Vessels Key to New Cancer Treatment; Possibly Obesity" WIRED's Epicenter
"TED 2010: Reality Is Broken. Game Designers Must Fix It" WIRED's Epicenter
"TED 2010: The Price in Human Suffering of Being Open-Minded" WIRED's Epicenter
"TED 2010: Death Star Laser Gun Zaps Mosquitoes Dead" WIRED's Epicenter
"TED 2010: Google Optimistic It Can Remain in China" WIRED's Epicenter
"TED 2010: Wired for the iPad to Launch by Summer" WIRED's Epicenter
"TED 2010: Transformative Transparency" Fresh Influence blog
"TED 2010: Id and Identity Online" Fresh Influence blog
"TED 2010: Innovation NOW" Fresh Influence blog
"Jake Shimabukuro at TED2010" BoingBoing
"TED 2010 in 100 Tweets" Bill Gross
"Highlights from TED 2010, Day One" Brain Pickings
"Highlights from TED 2010: Day Two" Brain Pickings
"TED 2010 Day Three: A New Kind of Middle School and Bill Gates on Energy Miracles" HBR's Anthony Tjan
"TED 2010: Day 3" MIT Sloan Management Review
"TED 2010: Day 4 and Wrapup" MIT Sloan Management Review
"Kevin Bales at TED: We Can End Slavery" Tonic
"Notes From TED: Can Simplicity and Innovation Overcome Complexity and Cynicism?" The Huffington Post
"Bill Gates: We need global 'energy miracles'" CNN
"Ten big ideas from TED" CNN
TED Prize Winner: Jamie Oliver
I thought Jamie Oliver's wish was a good step forward for America. His talk with informative and inspiring. Jamie Oliver’s Wish:
“I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.”
More about the plan and needs are here.
CNN's coverage
"Food crusader to reveal secret wish" (video)
"Jamie Oliver: 'Eat your chips,' just not every day" (video)
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Notes From TED2010: Intellectual Honesty, Sam Harris, Peter Singer and Determinism
I wanted my first post from TED to cover my reflection from day one, but I have to rift on Sam Harris' talk this morning. It was unimpressive (again) and I question why some consider him such a strong intellectual.
I was amused by his jabs at "delusional religious" frameworks and thinking without referencing examples outside of religion. Harris correctly scorns religious and cultural thinking that leads a father to think about killing his daughter that was raped to escape his shame and dishonor.
What Harris and others don't do is take rational frameworks from the left and inject intellectual honesty into these discussions. Obviously, Harris is not a fan of Christianity and religion, but having tunnel vision is not a good thing.
Since Harris referenced chimps and degrees of consciousness between animals, a good starting point is the intellectual framework of Peter Singer, Princeton bioethicist and a founding father of the animal rights movement. What I respect about Singer is that he is logically sound. He takes his intellectual framework to the nth degree that is transparent and honest.
Singer doesn't make a distinction between humans and animals, and believes if you do than you are a speciest (animal racist). If there is minimal self-awareness and ability to feel pain, then an animal is on par with humans. I assume this sounds rational to many animal activists, but what does this really mean and where does lead you?
Singer leads you there. He is in favor of infanticide, especially if the child is disabled, and maintains that drug testing and clinical trials should be done on disabled people over healthy animals. I don't even want to discuss the issue of bestiality, but you can talk to him. The logic is sound within his framework but horrifying to me and I hope to most of you.
He has argued the more severely disabled a human is that they lose their personhood status. So "higher" animals would have greater rights that disabled humans. Think about this. Think about how many talented people would not have been alive in Peter Singer's world...
Jim Abbott, professional baseball player
Christy Brown, author of My Left Foot
Itzhak Perlman, world class violinist
Judy Heumann, former Assistant Secretary of Education
Stephen Hawking, physicist
And so many others. If you take animal rights to an intellectual honest endpoint, do you still favor it above human exceptionalism?
Switching gears and examining the beliefs of the last person cited, Stephen Hawking, is another example of taking a framework to an intellectually honest degree. Hawking is one of our intellectual giants and a determinist. It's a world without God and where causality rules. What does this world look like?
Discussing his beliefs, he stated his fear for the long-term survival of our species, “My only fear is this. The terror that stalks my mind is that we have arrived on the scene because of evolution. Because of naturalistic selection, and natural selection assumes natural rejection, which means we have arrived here because of our aggression. And my hope is that somehow we can keep from eating each other up for another 100 years. At that point science would have devised a scheme to take all of us into different planets of the universe and no one atrocity would destroy all of us at the same time.”
Seriously? Our survival rests on the hope that we can progress enough to blast off into space and escape the earth? This is not the world of my beliefs.
I was amused by his jabs at "delusional religious" frameworks and thinking without referencing examples outside of religion. Harris correctly scorns religious and cultural thinking that leads a father to think about killing his daughter that was raped to escape his shame and dishonor.
What Harris and others don't do is take rational frameworks from the left and inject intellectual honesty into these discussions. Obviously, Harris is not a fan of Christianity and religion, but having tunnel vision is not a good thing.
Since Harris referenced chimps and degrees of consciousness between animals, a good starting point is the intellectual framework of Peter Singer, Princeton bioethicist and a founding father of the animal rights movement. What I respect about Singer is that he is logically sound. He takes his intellectual framework to the nth degree that is transparent and honest.
Singer doesn't make a distinction between humans and animals, and believes if you do than you are a speciest (animal racist). If there is minimal self-awareness and ability to feel pain, then an animal is on par with humans. I assume this sounds rational to many animal activists, but what does this really mean and where does lead you?
Singer leads you there. He is in favor of infanticide, especially if the child is disabled, and maintains that drug testing and clinical trials should be done on disabled people over healthy animals. I don't even want to discuss the issue of bestiality, but you can talk to him. The logic is sound within his framework but horrifying to me and I hope to most of you.
He has argued the more severely disabled a human is that they lose their personhood status. So "higher" animals would have greater rights that disabled humans. Think about this. Think about how many talented people would not have been alive in Peter Singer's world...
Jim Abbott, professional baseball player
Christy Brown, author of My Left Foot
Itzhak Perlman, world class violinist
Judy Heumann, former Assistant Secretary of Education
Stephen Hawking, physicist
And so many others. If you take animal rights to an intellectual honest endpoint, do you still favor it above human exceptionalism?
Switching gears and examining the beliefs of the last person cited, Stephen Hawking, is another example of taking a framework to an intellectually honest degree. Hawking is one of our intellectual giants and a determinist. It's a world without God and where causality rules. What does this world look like?
Discussing his beliefs, he stated his fear for the long-term survival of our species, “My only fear is this. The terror that stalks my mind is that we have arrived on the scene because of evolution. Because of naturalistic selection, and natural selection assumes natural rejection, which means we have arrived here because of our aggression. And my hope is that somehow we can keep from eating each other up for another 100 years. At that point science would have devised a scheme to take all of us into different planets of the universe and no one atrocity would destroy all of us at the same time.”
Seriously? Our survival rests on the hope that we can progress enough to blast off into space and escape the earth? This is not the world of my beliefs.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
@TED2010 This Week
In Long Beach for TED2010 this week, so I'm pretty excited. Very thankful to Christine for letting me go since the twins are getting to be a handful. I'll be there for two-thirds of the conference and coming back early on Friday.
Some good coverage of this year's TED before the conference starts...
"TED's Influence and Digital Reach Keep Expanding
While many conferences strive to cover niches, Chris Anderson's long-running think fest known as TED thrives on willful eclecticism" BusinessWeek
"TED 2010 Conference Makes for Strange Bedfellows" WIRED
If anyone from TED's staff is reading, I've been trying to change my profile photo for over a year now. The photo upload doesn't work nor changing the primary photo. Help!
Some good coverage of this year's TED before the conference starts...
"TED's Influence and Digital Reach Keep Expanding
While many conferences strive to cover niches, Chris Anderson's long-running think fest known as TED thrives on willful eclecticism" BusinessWeek
"TED 2010 Conference Makes for Strange Bedfellows" WIRED
If anyone from TED's staff is reading, I've been trying to change my profile photo for over a year now. The photo upload doesn't work nor changing the primary photo. Help!
Monday, January 4, 2010
TEDTalk: Dan Pink on the Surprising Science of Motivation
Insightful and excellent TEDTalk by Daniel Pink, author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, and Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
TED's 2010 Senior Fellows Announced
TED has announced their inaugural class of TED Senior Fellows. Twenty select people from all of the TED fellows around the world were selected for this special program.
A special congratulations to my friend, Adrian Hong, who is the founder of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK).
Here are the twenty:
Taghi Amirani (Iran/UK) – Documentary filmmaker, Amirani Films
Rachel Armstrong (UK) – Teaching fellow, The Bartlett School of Architecture; physician; science-fiction author
Frederick Balagadde (Uganda/US) – Research scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; co-inventor of the microchemostat, a medical diagnostic chip
April Karen Baptiste (Trinidad) – Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Colgate University
Faisal Chohan (Pakistan) – CEO, Cogilent Solutions; founder, Brightspyre, Pakistan’s largest online job portal
Colleen Flanigan (US) – Fine artist; stop-motion armaturist, coral reef restoration expert
Gabriella Gómez-Mont (Mexico) – Founder, Tóxico Cultura, a Mexico City-based artistic think tank
Jonathan Gosier (US/Uganda) – Founder, Appfrica, a business incubator in Kampala
Peter Haas (US/Haiti/Guatemala) – Founder, Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG)
Erik Hersman (Kenya/US) – Co-founder, Ushahidi.com; blogger, AfriGadget and White African
Adrian Hong (US/North Korea/South Korea) – Director, The Pegasus Project; former director, Liberty in North Korea
Juliette LaMontagne (US) – Education consultant; innovation facilitator
Alexander MacDonald (US) – Economist, NASA Ames Research Center
Juliana Machado-Ferreira (Brazil) – Biologist, SOS FAUNA; PhD candidate, Sao Paulo University
VK Madhavan (India) – Executive Director, Central Himalayan Rural Action Group (Chirag)
Naomi Natale (Italy/US) – Founder, One Million Bones, a large-scale social activism art installation
Bola Olabisi (Nigeria/UK) – Founder, Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network (GWIIN)
Alexander Petroff (US/Democratic Republic of the Congo) – Founder, Working Villages International
Juliana Rotich (Kenya/US) – Co-founder, Ushahidi.com; blogger, Afromusing and Global Voices
Mohammad Tauheed (Bangladesh) – Architect; founder, ArchSociety
A special congratulations to my friend, Adrian Hong, who is the founder of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK).
Here are the twenty:
Taghi Amirani (Iran/UK) – Documentary filmmaker, Amirani Films
Rachel Armstrong (UK) – Teaching fellow, The Bartlett School of Architecture; physician; science-fiction author
Frederick Balagadde (Uganda/US) – Research scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; co-inventor of the microchemostat, a medical diagnostic chip
April Karen Baptiste (Trinidad) – Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Colgate University
Faisal Chohan (Pakistan) – CEO, Cogilent Solutions; founder, Brightspyre, Pakistan’s largest online job portal
Colleen Flanigan (US) – Fine artist; stop-motion armaturist, coral reef restoration expert
Gabriella Gómez-Mont (Mexico) – Founder, Tóxico Cultura, a Mexico City-based artistic think tank
Jonathan Gosier (US/Uganda) – Founder, Appfrica, a business incubator in Kampala
Peter Haas (US/Haiti/Guatemala) – Founder, Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG)
Erik Hersman (Kenya/US) – Co-founder, Ushahidi.com; blogger, AfriGadget and White African
Adrian Hong (US/North Korea/South Korea) – Director, The Pegasus Project; former director, Liberty in North Korea
Juliette LaMontagne (US) – Education consultant; innovation facilitator
Alexander MacDonald (US) – Economist, NASA Ames Research Center
Juliana Machado-Ferreira (Brazil) – Biologist, SOS FAUNA; PhD candidate, Sao Paulo University
VK Madhavan (India) – Executive Director, Central Himalayan Rural Action Group (Chirag)
Naomi Natale (Italy/US) – Founder, One Million Bones, a large-scale social activism art installation
Bola Olabisi (Nigeria/UK) – Founder, Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network (GWIIN)
Alexander Petroff (US/Democratic Republic of the Congo) – Founder, Working Villages International
Juliana Rotich (Kenya/US) – Co-founder, Ushahidi.com; blogger, Afromusing and Global Voices
Mohammad Tauheed (Bangladesh) – Architect; founder, ArchSociety
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
TED Fellow Application Deadline, This Friday!
I should have posted this earlier, but if you're interested in attending TED 2010 as a TED Fellow (free!) you can apply here. It's primarily targeting activists, nonprofit leaders, creatives and others who typically cannot afford to attend TED.
More from Tom Rielly, TED Fellowship Director:
About the TED Fellows Program
The TED Fellows program is an international fellowship program designed to nurture great ideas and help them spread around the world. Benefits of the Fellowship include conference admission, round-trip transportation, housing and all meals. Fellows will also participate in a pre-conference with the opportunity to present a short talk for consideration for TED.com, elite skills-building courses taught by world experts, social opportunities and surprise extras.
The program seeks remarkable thinkers and doers who have shown unusual accomplishment, exceptional courage, moral imagination and the potential to increase positive change in their respective fields. The program focuses on innovators in technology, entertainment, design, science, film, art, music, entrepreneurship and the NGO community, among other pursuits. The program targets individuals from the Asia/Pacific region, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle east, though anyone from anywhere in the world is welcome to apply. Applicants are generally between 21-40 years of age, though anyone over 18 and over 40 may apply. They must also be fluent in English.
For more information, please visit www.ted.com/fellows.
More from Tom Rielly, TED Fellowship Director:
About the TED Fellows Program
The TED Fellows program is an international fellowship program designed to nurture great ideas and help them spread around the world. Benefits of the Fellowship include conference admission, round-trip transportation, housing and all meals. Fellows will also participate in a pre-conference with the opportunity to present a short talk for consideration for TED.com, elite skills-building courses taught by world experts, social opportunities and surprise extras.
The program seeks remarkable thinkers and doers who have shown unusual accomplishment, exceptional courage, moral imagination and the potential to increase positive change in their respective fields. The program focuses on innovators in technology, entertainment, design, science, film, art, music, entrepreneurship and the NGO community, among other pursuits. The program targets individuals from the Asia/Pacific region, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle east, though anyone from anywhere in the world is welcome to apply. Applicants are generally between 21-40 years of age, though anyone over 18 and over 40 may apply. They must also be fluent in English.
For more information, please visit www.ted.com/fellows.
Monday, August 17, 2009
TEDx's YouTube Channel
TED has launched their TEDx channel on YouTube:
In the spirit of "Ideas Worth Spreading," TEDx is a program that enables schools, businesses, libraries or just groups of friends to enjoy a TED-like experience through events they themselves organize, design and host. We're supporting approved organizers by offering a free toolkit that includes detailed advice, the right to use recorded TEDTalks, promotion on our site, connection to other organizers, and a little piece of our brand in the form of the TEDx label.
In the spirit of "Ideas Worth Spreading," TEDx is a program that enables schools, businesses, libraries or just groups of friends to enjoy a TED-like experience through events they themselves organize, design and host. We're supporting approved organizers by offering a free toolkit that includes detailed advice, the right to use recorded TEDTalks, promotion on our site, connection to other organizers, and a little piece of our brand in the form of the TEDx label.
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