Entries from TED Blog tagged with 'TED Prize'
12 November 2009
Video: Malaysian kids talk about compassion
R.AGE TV presents this series of interviews with Malaysian students about compassion, asking: What does it mean to you? and What's an act of compassion you're recently witnessed? Their answers are surprising and charming.
12 November 2009
Charter for Compassion: Twitter reaction
It's been 5 hours since the launch of the Charter for Compassion. Some reaction from around the Twittersphere:
@vrimj: This is beautiful and made me cry. I have not read something this humane in a while.
@Deepak_Chopra Please join me in joining the Charter for #Compassion. Please RT & ask others to affirm
@VirginiaMiracle: Karen Armstrong - this is a call for compassionate moderates to become as organized as extremists are
@Lightkin Tears of #compassion in my eyes: Video- the Charter for Compassion is read by a myriad of people: http://tr.im/EPMU
@TommyGSync Been waiting 4 2day 2 arrive ever since hearing #Ted #Compassion 2008 Wish. Please consider http://digg.com/d115hbr
In photo above: Karen Armstrong, winner of the TED Prize, right, and Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, director of the Department of Religion at the Chautauqua Institution, unveil the "Charter for Compassion," which was globally launched at the National Press Club on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, in Washington. (Kevin Wolf, AP Images for TED Prize)
12 November 2009
Video: Australians on Compassion
Voices from all cultures and religions are coming together to affirm The Charter for Compassion. Along with the celebrations and events that will be taking place around the globe to mark this momentous occasion, we sought to understand what compassion meant to some inspiring Australians.
In order of appearance, they are: Adriano Zumbo, Cathie McGinn, Dr Stephen Saunders, Neil Perry, Melissa Leong, Barry Saunders, Mitzi Macintosh, Mark Pollard, Julie Posetti, Venerable Sujato Bhikkhu, Gavin Heaton, Reverend Raymond Minniecon, Bronwen Clune, Reverend Bill Crews, Rabbi Mendel Castell, Graham Long and Tim Burrowes.
Learn more and affirm the Charter now at charterforcompassion.org.
Australians on Compassion from TED Prize on Vimeo.
12 November 2009
Powerful quotes from the Charter for Compassion launch
Pulled from Twitter coverage of the live Charter event:
"Compassion is a dangerous dream beacause it rocks the foundations of old interests and gives us new ground to stand on." Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell
"In this room, we have words that make a difference between death and life. Words can bring life and words can kill." - Rev. Peter Storey
"This is the most collaborative undertaking of religious communities in history." - Rabbi David Saperstein
"We often talk about one corner of the world as the holy land. The whole world is the holy land." - Rev. Peter Storey
"The Charter is a hit song. Melody, rhythm, groove." -Pakistani musician Salman Ahmad #compassion [let's dance]
"This is the world's now. We're giving it away. What will you do to spread compassion?" Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell
Photo: The Charter for Compassion plaque at the Ghandiji Ashram, Penang, Malaysia.
12 November 2009
Charter around the world: Sydney, Australia
Outside the Sydney Opera House, an ecumenical group holds the Yves Béhar-designed plaque for the Charter for Compassion.
12 November 2009
Charter for Compassion launches!
This morning at 10am, Karen Armstrong unveiled the powerful text of the Charter for Compassion -- the culmination of her 2008 TED Prize wish.
Read and affirm the text of the Charter for Compassion >>
The Charter for Compassion asks that people of all religions and moral codes to recognize the core value we share -- that we wish to act toward others as we'd like them to act toward us. This bedrock value is the foundation for a greater understanding.
Look for photos from today's announcement and from events around the world on the TED Blog throughout the day. And follow @TheCharter on Twitter for ongoing news (look for the hashtag #Compassion).
Learn more about the Charter for Compassion -- and find or start an event to share and celebrate it!
Become a Fan of the Charter for Compassion on Facebook >>
27 September 2009
Live on the web today: Karen Armstrong and the Dalai Lama talk about compassion
A TED Prize wish is about to be granted. We'd love you to participate.
On Sunday, September 27, 1pm PDT, TED Prize winner Karen Armstrong, joined by 4 Nobel laureates -- the Dalai Lama, Jody Williams, Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Betty Williams -- will unveil plans for the launch of the Charter for Compassion. The event will include short TEDTalks on the true meaning and significance of compassion by some of the world's most inspirational figures. The event begins with a musical interlude.
We invite you to watch the event, live-streamed over the web ... and to consider joining thousands of people around the world for the celebration of a truly giant idea, perhaps the biggest idea humanity has ever had.
Please be part of this. Details here >>
Share the news on Twitter with this short URL: http://on.ted.com/3M
18 June 2009
Designing the classroom of the future on the Open Architecture Network
Via TEDPrize.org: 2006 TED Prize winner Cameron Sinclair recently wrote to update us on the amazing success of this year's Open Architecture Challenge. The challenge was for teams of teachers, students, architects and designers to work together to design the classroom of the future for a school of their own choosing. Tens of thousands of participants and hundreds of schools from 45 countries submitted their designs.
The submission period ended on June 1 and will now go through a three step jury process. The winners will be announced in the fall.
Equally as exciting is the groundbreaking of the SIDAREC community center - the first winner of our OAN challenge - tomorrow in Kenya.
The Open Architecture Network is truly helping make innovative design more accessible.
08 June 2009
It's World Oceans Day! Take a poll to help Sylvia Earle's wish come true
Take 3 minutes to help celebrate World Oceans Day by helping us grant Sylvia Earle's 2009 TED Prize wish.
Our partners at Razorfish have created an ocean survey regarding the threats to marine life today. This survey will offer valuable insights into the public's knowledge of the dangers facing our oceans. We would love to hear from the TED community -- please tell us, how often do you think about the ocean?
Please take a few minutes to fill out this survey, and help us move one step closer to making Sylvia Earle's wish come true. Keynote Solutions, a test and measurement company, will be organizing the information gathered here, and it will be used to help design an awareness campaign to fulfill this inspiring wish.
Share this poll: http://on.ted.com/h
Watch Sylvia Earle as she makes her TED Prize wish:
04 June 2009
James Nachtwey honored at the US Capitol tonight
TEDsters in the Washington, DC, area may wish to attend a congressional reception tonight honoring photographer James Nachtwey, on Thursday, June 4, at the US Capitol. James Nachtwey's TED Prize wish, in 2007, asked the world to help him share images of XDR-TB, a scary and underreported new strain of tuberculosis. The reception tonight is from 6-8pm at the US Capitol, in the Mansfield Room. To attend, you must RSVP to this email: SeeingChangeTB@gmail.com
21 May 2009
SETI Institute is hiring: Become the project manager for Jill Tarter's TED Prize wish
This spring, astronomer Jill Tarter made a far-reaching TED Prize wish -- to search for signs of intelligent life on other planets.
As part of making this wish come true, the SETI Institute is looking to hire a project manager with the experience, qualifications and energy to run the TED Prize wish project for at least two years. For the full job description and contact info, read on.
This is a unique opportunity to work in both open-source software and social media, on a project whose ramifications are literally beyond global.
Watch Jill Tarter's TED Prize wish to get inspired:
We are seeking someone with deep experience in managing open-source software projects and the communities that power them to drive a bold and agenda-setting initiative. The initiative will involve managing a traditional open-source software project, as well as a complex public-facing system that will enlist the general/nontechnical public’s assistance in conducting our search. To succeed, a candidate above all needs a history of success in managing major open-source projects. While it’s not essential that this person be a coding engineer, it is essential that s/he be comfortable enough with C++ code to have technically meaningful interactions with committers and the broader open-source community. It’s also essential that s/he be a strong evangelist -- able to speak inspiringly in public, and to energize, recruit and maintain engagement with key influencers in the open source coding world.
The other part of the job will be governing a project that will in many ways resemble Galaxy Zoo (an intriguing “citizen scientist” system). This will involve managing a respected Web development company as it creates the site, and thereafter overseeing/”gardening” a large community of nontechnical contributors. We expect this community to be self-policing and self-monitoring, like Wikipedia’s editorial community. But it will need leadership and a baseline architecture, and our hire will be responsible for delivering this.
This is a unique opportunity to work in both open-source software and social media, on a project whose ramifications are literally beyond global.
This will be a full-time role at the SETI Institute for two years, funded by the money TED has allocated toward granting Jill’s wish. However, because this is a TED Prize wish, one in which many people and individuals are giving a lot to make happen, we do hope to find someone who will do this at a reduced rate. We have a large brainstorm taking place on June 1 and would love to have the right person chosen and at the table for that meeting.
Please send a resume and cover letter to tedprize1@ted.com if you are interested in the position.
And please forward this opportunity on to anyone you believe possess the right skills!
12 May 2009
A piano performance that balances chaos and harmony: Eric Lewis on TED.com
Eric Lewis (who plays the White House tonight!) explores the piano's expressive power as he pounds and caresses the keys (and the strings) in a performance during the 2009 TED Prize session. He plays an original song, a tribute to ocean and sky and the vision of the TED Prize winners. (Recorded at TED2009, February 2009, in Long Beach, California. Duration: 4:54.)
Watch Eric Lewis' performance on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 400+ TEDTalks.
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05 May 2009
The incredible El Sistema music program is coming to the US
Three months ago, the visionary Venezuelan musician Dr. José Antonio Abreu made his TED Prize wish -- to create and document a special training program for at least 50 gifted young musicians, passionate for their art and for social justice, and dedicated to developing El Sistema in the US and in other countries.
Today we are proud to introduce the Abreu Fellows Program at New England Conservatory of Music. It is a one-year postgraduate certificate program for accomplished young musicians who desire to become ambassadors of El Sistema and who are committed to developing it outside of Venezuela. Abreu Fellows will spend a year studying between Boston and Caracas, and leave with the tools to return to their communities to teach the El Sistema model.
Subject to funds raised, the program is ready to open this fall with spots for the first 18 fellows.
More detailed information on the program, the fellows and funding scholarships is online at a beautiful new website, elSistemaUSA.org.
el Sistema USA is a support and advocacy network for people and organizations inspired by Venezula’s monumental music education program. It will grow to provide comprehensive information on the El Sistema philosophy and methodology, and host a variety of resources that will aid those building, expanding and supporting El Sistema programs in the US and beyond.
Check out the site and be inspired. Help build the program by identifying or supporting a fellow. And if you haven’t already, watch the unforgettable youth orchestra performance from TED.
A huge thanks to Albertson Design, who did an amazing job branding the fellows program and designing and building the website.
And thanks to The Rackspace Cloud for hosting the site.
15 April 2009
TED nominated for 3 Webby Awards!
The Webbies are here again and TED has been nominated in 3 categories for 2009. TED.com is in the running for Best Use of Video or Moving Image and Podcasts. The third nomination is for Pangea Day in the Movie and Film category. Pangea Day is the progeny of TED Prize and Razorfish Inc., maintaining a site alive with amazing short films, documentaries and performances.
In 2008, TED was nominated for and won 3 Webby Awards. Let's keep our fingers crossed for another clean sweep.
03 April 2009
Around the World in 80 Telescopes
TED Prize winner Jill Tarter tips us to this event going on right now: Around the World in 80 Telescopes, a live 24-hour telescopecast from astronomical observatories around the world. It's part of the "100 Hours of Astronomy" celebration happening April 2-5. From the site:
"Around the World in 80 Telescopes" is a unique live 24-hour webcast, following night and day around the globe to some of the most advanced observatories both on and off the planet. You can watch it right here on the 100HA website, and on the 100HA channel on Ustream.tv.
The 24-hour webcast ends 4 April 2009, 09:00 UT (Universal Time/GMT). Both viewing channels are being hit heavily, so be patient, but the images are worth it. On right now: The Millimeter Array at NAOJ Nobeyama in Japan.
The Allen Telescope Array -- an effort of the SETI Institute (along with the Radio Astronomy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley) -- has its 20 minutes of fame tomorrow at 4:40 pm EDT (23:40 UTC). Jill Tarter says: "If you think big telescopes are cool, you can take a look now, or tune in live to see us observing with the ATA."
Download a short video clip that introduces the ATA >>
Follow 100 Hours of Astronomy on Twitter >>
And watch Jill Tarter make her TED Prize wish to expand the ATA to search for alien intelligence:
01 April 2009
LA Times: Linda Ronstadt hails El Sistema in front of House subcommitee
From the LA Times' "Culture Monster" blog, this item by Mark Swed: "Linda Ronstadt hails Gustavo Dudamel in testimony on Capitol Hill":
In a remarkable testimony by Linda Ronstadt to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment & Related Agencies Tuesday, the pop singer made an impassioned plea for government support of the arts. And Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's soon-to-be music director, was her poster boy.
We quote from her written testimony here:
In the United States we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music together does all this and more.
José Abreu, the founder of El Sistema, the children’s music curriculum currently considered to be the best in the world, says this: “An orchestra is a community that comes together with the fundamental objective of agreeing with itself. Therefore, the person who plays in an orchestra begins to live the experience of agreement. And what does the agreement of experience mean? Team practice, the practice of a group that recognizes itself as interdependent where one is responsible for others and the others are responsible for oneself. Agree on what? To create beauty.”
... As you may know, there is a conductor of staggering talent who has been hailed as the next Leonard Bernstein. His name is Gustavo Dudamel and he has toured the United States and Europe with the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra to ecstatic reviews. He joins the Los Angeles Philharmonic as their Music Director in the fall. Here’s what matters to us today: this young conductor has a passion for music education because he knows its true power to alter the course of young lives. He was brought up in Venezuela in the extraordinary music education system that I mentioned earlier called El Sistema.
Imagine what can be accomplished if we support the arts, engage ‘at risk’ youth and help them succeed in school and in their lives. For ‘underserved’ families, indeed for all families, participation in music and the arts can help people reclaim and achieve the American Dream.
Read Linda Ronstadt's full testimony here >>
Learn more about El Sistema >>
Learn how YOU can help spread El Sistema >>
And watch Gustavo Dudamel as he conducts the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela in a spine-tingling performance:
Hat tip: Phantom Galleries LA
Photo: TED/Asa Mathat
24 March 2009
James Nachtwey speaks in Rio to mark World TB Day
Photographer James Nachtwey, whose TED Prize wish was to raise awareness of TB and the mutant strain XDRTB, will speak in Rio de Janeiro today to mark World TB Day. The Stop TB Partnership is twittering live from the meeting, and it's being webcast live, with yesterday's sessions available for viewing as well.
See James Nachtwey's powerful photographs of the XDRTB epidemic:
13 March 2009
Writing the Charter for Compassion: The Council of Conscience meets in Geneva
Cross-posted to the TED Prize blog: Last week, an amazing group of religious thinkers and leaders, the Council of Conscience, met outside of Geneva to finalize the Charter for Compassion. Previously called the Council of Sages, the group consists of individuals from the five major religions and almost every continent.
The Councilors spent two days together; they discussed the idea of compassion, sorted through the written submissions from the world, determined the key ideas necessary to include in the Charter and created a plan for how the Charter will live in the world. The discussions were thought-provoking, candid, and heartfelt. Everyone involved came away both inspired and committed to working towards creating a more compassionate global society.
Details will be revealed in the coming weeks and months. There are many ways which everyone can help propagate the Charter for Compassion and we encourage everyone to register on charterforcompassion.org to receive updates about ways to participate.
For more on the Council of Conscience meeting, read this report from council member Sr. Joan Chittister >>
Photo credit: TED Prize/tedprize.org
12 March 2009
Watch Karen Armstrong on Bill Moyers Journal
My work has continually brought me back to the notion of compassion. Whichever religious tradition I study, I find at the heart of it is the idea of feeling with the other, experiencing with the other, compassion. And every single one of the major world religions has developed its own version of the Golden Rule. Don’t do to others what you would not like them to do to you.
… We’ve got to do better than this. Compassion doesn’t mean feeling sorry for people. It doesn’t mean pity. It means putting yourself in the position of the other, learning about the other. Learning what’s motivating the other, learning about their grievances.
Confirm airdate and time on your local PBS station >>
Watch Karen Armstrong make her audacious wish during the TED Prize session at TED2008:
09 March 2009
Design for the minds of the future -- a new contest!
Architecture for Humanity wants your ideas and designs for the classrooms of the future. Their 2009 Open Architecture Challenge invites students, teachers and architects to submit their designs for classrooms in the places that need them most. You don't have to be a licensed architect, just submit the best possible plans and they'll find you a team.
The plans must be site specific and the designer can partner with a school of their choice, but AFH offers three very deserving partners. Orient Global needs design solutions for classrooms in high-density, urban India. Modular Building Institute and Blazer Industries want to produce relocatable classrooms to get around traditional school district constraints. Finally, Building Tomorrow is asking for classrooms that would work in remote and rural areas of Uganda. Challenging scenarios all three, but bursting with possibilities.
From Cameron Sinclair: Register by May 4, and enter by June 1. The winning team receives $5,000, AND the selected school receives $50,000 to renovate their spaces to become more sustainable. Runners-up get $1K/$10K. If you have any questions on how to enter, feel free to email me or visit the site for more details.
Cheers,
Cameron
The competition is hosted through the Open Architecture Network that was born from Cameron Sinclair's 2006 TED Prize wish. To discover more about the organization and humanitarian design watch his 2006 TEDTalk:
20 February 2009
Exclusive interview with TED Prize-winner Jill Tarter of SETI
Astronomer Jill Tarter is director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute. She was awarded the TED Prize in 2009, and at the TED Conference she wished that the TED community would "empower Earthlings everywhere to become active participants in the ultimate search for cosmic company." (Her talk on why the search for alien intelligence matters is now online.)
Yesterday the TED Blog interviewed Tarter over the phone about her TED Prize wish. She talked about some of the challenges and practicalities of SETI research, her new plans to help bring the world into the search for cosmic company, and a few new ideas about extraterrestrial intelligence that intrigue her. It's a fascinating look at the pragmatic thinking that goes into this "stellar" project. Here's a snippet:
If we could start out by recording data and having people develop algorithms for this class of signals in higher dimensions for us, then we could take the best algorithms and see if we can get them made efficient enough to run real time and put those on the telescope as well. And now you open up a whole universe of looking for something completely different -- something we weren't sensitive to before.
But what about the folks that don't have that technological know-how? Can we get them involved too, if they're passionate and eager to participate? Well, the eye is just a fabulous pattern-detection machine. It took a lot of years of evolution to make that work well. And so perhaps what we could do is involve people in using their eyeballs to find these complex signals.
Read the complete interview, below the fold >>
20 February 2009
Why the search for alien intelligence matters (TED Prize winner): Jill Tarter on TED.com
From TED2009! The SETI Institute's Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to keep looking for cosmic company. Using a growing array of radio telescopes, she (and all of us) can listen for patterns that may be a sign of intelligence elsewhere in the universe. (Recorded February 2009 in Long Beach, California. Duration: 21:23.)
Watch Jill Tarter's TED Prize wish from TED2009 on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 385+ TEDTalks -- including many more TED Prize wishes.
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19 February 2009
Sylvia Earle's TED Prize wish: Here's how to protect the blue heart of the planet
From TED2009! Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean -- and shocking stats about its rapid decline -- as she makes her TED Prize wish: that we will join her in protecting the vital blue heart of the planet. (Recorded February 2009 in Long Beach, California. Duration: 18:16.)
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18 February 2009
How a transformative musical experience came to TED
In a basement studio in Caracas, Venezuela, three weeks ago, I had the most powerful musical experience of my life. TED Prize Director Amy Novogratz and I were standing five feet away from the conductor's stand in front of 200 Venezuelan virtuoso musicians -- their average age 16. Many of these kids had been born in the slums of Caracas or the poverty-stricken villages outside. They were part of the astonishing El Sistema program that had provided them instruments from an early age and countless hours of individual rehearsal and orchestral practice: a discipline that -- as some of them told us -- was transformative for them personally and even for their families.
They were known as the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra, the pride of Venezuela, and we were hoping that they might be able to do an unannounced live-by-satellite performance for TED2009, which was just 10 days away. We were curious as to what kind of impact they might have. The conductor raised his baton. The first three notes had us leaping out of our skins, overwhelmed by a wall of sound. I had heard Shostakovitch before, but never like this. Passion, brilliance, precision and total commitment shone from every face. They didn't just play the music, they entered it, bodies swaying and occasionally darting to the rhythm. For 15 minutes, though it could have been a second or a lifetime, we were lost.
At the end of the performance, we got to tell them that they were soon to perform to a global audience connected by satellite -- and that their conductor that night would be the international phenomenon Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema's most famous graduate. The performance was to celebrate the TED Prize being granted to the revered founder of El Sistema, Jose Antonio Abreu. The air crackled with excitement. We got to film some of the kids playing individually and sharing some of their stories and views (and you can see some of them in Maestro Abreu's TED Prize acceptance speech).
10 days later, standing on the TED stage after Abreu's inspirational talk, shaking with anxiety about whether the technology would work, and whether the experience could possibly be shared this way, I announced the surprise performance. Unbelievably, it happened again. Electricity down the spine like never before. The a/v team in Caracas live-edited the talk to a quality level that boggled the mind. Dudamel entrancing, magnetic, the children sharing their souls through music in a way that few of us had experienced. And at the end, the longest standing ovation in TED's history.
And now here it is on TED.com. The same piece, exactly as we saw it ... no new editing. If you care about music, I urge you ... no I beg you ... set aside 20 minutes, connect to your computer the best speakers you own, gather your family or friends or colleagues around, turn up the volume, and accept this astonishing gift from a bunch of kids in another country who might have lived lives of futility ... but instead discovered the transformative power of music.
18 February 2009
Bonus TEDtalk tonight! Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra
A bonus TED Prize talk from TED2009: The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El Sistema, founded by 2009 TED Prize winner Jose Antonio Abreu (watch him make his TED Prize wish to spread this musical education plan around the world). Led here by Gustavo Dudamel, the orchestra plays Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, 2nd movement, and Arturo Márquez' Danzón No. 2. (Recorded February 2009 in Caracas, Venezuela, and Long Beach, California. Duration: 17:06.)
Watch Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra -- and then watch Jose Antonio Abreu's TED Prize wish to bring this musical program to the world. On TED.com, you can download these TEDTalks, rate them, comment on them and find other talks and performances from our archive of 375+ TEDTalks -- including many more TED Prize wishes.
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18 February 2009
Jose Antonio Abreu: Help me bring music to kids worldwide (TED Prize winner!)
The opening talk from TED2009: Jose Antonio Abreu is the charismatic founder of a youth orchestra system that has transformed thousands of kids' lives in Venezuela. Here he shares his amazing story and unveils a TED Prize wish that could have a big impact in the US and beyond. (Recorded February 2009 in Caracas, Venezuela, and Long Beach, California. Duration: 16:56.)
Watch Jose Antonio Abreu's talk from TED2009 on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 375+ TEDTalks -- including many more TED Prize wishes.
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05 February 2009
Jose Antonio Abreu's TED Prize wish: Help 50 young musicians
Above: Maestro José Antonio Abreu, founder of Venezuela's El Sistema, a plan for involving kids in classical music, makes this wish:
I wish you would help create and document a special training program for at least 50 gifted young musicians, passionate for their art and for social justice, and dedicated to developing El Sistema in the US and in other countries.
Learn more, and help grant this wish >>
Photo: TED / Asa Mathat
05 February 2009
Sylvia Earle makes her TED Prize wish: Create ocean "hope spots"
Above: Sylvia Earle, a deep-sea explorer and advocate for the oceans, makes this wish:
I wish you would use all means at your disposal -- films! expeditions! the web! more! -- to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet.
Photo: TED / Asa Mathat
05 February 2009
Jill Tarter's TED Prize wish: Let's look for cosmic company
Above, Jill Tarter, the director of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute’s Center for SETI Research, makes this wish:
I wish that you would empower Earthlings everywhere to become active participants in the ultimate search for cosmic company.
Learn more, and help grant this wish >>
Photo: TED / James Duncan Davidson
05 February 2009
Jose Abreu: Inspiration comes full circle
Jose Abreu is well known for his inspiration of disadvantaged Venezuelan youth. His work with El Sistema and the beautiful music that it has produced are an inextricable part of the country and the region's culture and history. El Sistema has given huge numbers of children direction, purpose and opportunity that they may otherwise never have had. This is why the world knows Jose Abreu, and why tonight he received a TEDPrize.
Gustavo Dudamel conducts El Sistema orchestra Photo: TED/Asa Mathat
However, huge movements like El Sistema create ripples, and it is these ripples of inspiration that take effect in ways we might never consider. It is one of these tiny waves that came through my television, when I was a little girl in Trinidad and Tobago watching El Sistema in concert.
I remember my parents being very excited, and not understanding why, until my mother explained the mission and the vision of this particular orchestra. I remember thinking, "What a wonderful man, to help little kids like me to do things that other people said they couldn't." (People were always telling me all the things I could not do.)
As I get older, I can see how moments like this one have also given me direction and purpose. It is experiences such as these that allow me to have continuous optimism for humanity. It is this attitude that attracted me to TED. And tonight, I am a small part of helping to reward and recognize one of my earliest role models.
By Shanna Carpenter
27 January 2009
Watch the TED Prize wishes live in cinemas
Next Thursday night, Feb. 5, the 2009 TED Prize winners will make their audacious wishes to change the world. We've been working hard to make this session accessible to people around the world. So we'll be presenting, for the first time ever, the TED Prize live in select theaters and cinemas across the US.
In this live simulcast at some of America's most glorious theaters, watch as deep-ocean explorer Sylvia Earle, astronomer Jill Tarter, and maestro Jose Antonio Abreu reveal their 2009 TED Prize wishes to change the world. Be among the first to see what they wish for!
When: Thursday, February 5
Start time: 5pm Pacific / 7pm Central / 8pm Eastern
Tickets: $20.
Theaters include:
Laemmle Music Hall, Beverly Hills, CA, 310-274-6869
Laemmle's Playhouse, Pasadena, CA, 626-844-6500
Michigan Theatre, Jackson, MI, 517-783-0962
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, Bryn Mawr, PA, 610-527-9898
Jane Pickens Theater, Newport, RI, 401-846-5252
We hope you can join us!
More details and an updated list of cinemas >>
10 November 2008
New underwater amazements from the Census of Marine Life
Via LiveScience, this report:
An astounding batch of new deep-sea discoveries, from strange shark behavior to gigantic bacteria, was announced today by an international group of 2,000 scientists from 82 nations.
The Census of Marine Life is a 10-year project to determine what's down there.
At their meeting in Spain this week, COML researchers will be reporting hundreds of discoveries from their most recent census projects, such as:
+ the ancestor of many deep-sea octopus species, still living in the Southern Ocean -- and an octopus "expressway" in the deep sea off Antarctica
+ at least 85 new species of zooplankton
+ a fascinating shark behavior in the Pacific
Download the Highlights Report -- full of jaw-dropping photos, news and art from the sea. Select the "Highlights Report with live links to press releases, photo galleries, video, etc. (PDF, 4.2 MB)."
Last month, COML researcher Sylvia Earle won the 2009 TED Prize, along with SETI's Jill Cornell Tarter and maestro José Antonio Abreu.
16 October 2008
Announcing the 2009 TED Prize winners: oceanographer Sylvia Earle, SETI's Jill Tarter, maestro José Antonio Abreu
TED and the TED Prize are proud to unveil the three remarkable winners of the 2009 TED Prize: deep-ocean explorer Sylvia Earle, astronomer Jill Tarter, and Maestro José Antonio Abreu. Each of them is a leader in his/her chosen field of work, with an unconventional viewpoint and a vision to transform the world.
Their lives and their words are inspiring.
Sylvia Earle, called “Her Deepness” by the New Yorker and the New York Times, “Living Legend” by the Library of Congress, and “Hero for the Planet” by Time, is an oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer with a deep commitment to research through personal exploration.
“We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us."
Jill Tarter, director of the SETI Institute’s Center for SETI Research and holder of the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI. She has devoted her career to hunting for signs of sentient beings elsewhere, and almost all aspects of this field have been affected by her work.
" 'Are we alone?' Humans have been asking [this question] forever. The probability of success is difficult to estimate but if we never search the chance of success is zero."
José Abreu, a retired economist, trained musician, and social reformer founded El Sistema (“the system”) in 1975 based on the conviction that what poor Venezuelan kids needed was classical music. After 30 years and 10 different political administrations, El Sistema is now a nationwide organization of 102 youth orchestras, 55 children’s orchestras and 270 music centers.
"Music has to be recognized as an ... agent of social development in the highest sense, because it transmits the highest values -- solidarity, harmony, mutual compassion. And it has the ability to unite an entire community and to express sublime feelings."
Learn more about them here.
Each wins $100,000 plus "One Wish to Change the World." Their wishes will be unveiled at TED2009 on February 5, 2009.
We can't wait!
08 October 2008
If you're in London ... do your bit for XDR-TB
Via Casson at the TED Prize blog (where there's lots more news about the XDRTB.org movement):
06 October 2008
To stop XDR-TB, cure TB. To stop TB, cure poverty.
A powerful idea from the unveiling of James Nachtwey's photos of the XDR-TB epidemic on Friday night in New York City:
During the Q&A session with some TB experts and activists, an audience member asked: "We're talking about XDR-TB, but what about regular TB? What are we doing to cure that?"
Dr. Marcos Espinal of the Stop TB Project gave a direct answer:
"Cure poverty. Tuberculosis is a disease of the poor."
The list of specific risk factors for TB bears this out; you are more likely to catch TB if you are, for example, malnourished, living in crowded conditions or living in a refugee camp or shelter, or if you lack access to health care. It's a disease of the bottom billion. And so are TB's frightening new mutated forms, XDR-TB and MDR-TB -- because wiping out TB before it mutates costs ... $20.
To learn more, download these PDF factsheets about XDR-TB and MDR-TB and TB from the World Health Organization and its Stop TB Project. And find 3 quick ways to help at XDRTB.org -- such as signing a letter that will be sent directly to your country's leaders.
As Benjamin von Caspel wrote, when he told his friends about XDRTB.org via Twitter:
James Nachtwey's TED prize project has gone live - http://www.xdrtb.org/ - Yet another reason to remember the bottom billion matter.
Photo of Dr. Marcos Espinal courtesy of Robert Leslie.
05 October 2008
Trouble hitting SIGN on XDRTB.org?
We've heard from some users (and thank you, those who wrote in!) that the SIGN button on the XDRTB.org home page is not working. If you clicked on SIGN and nothing happened, you can try turning off your pop-up blocker, or use this direct link:
to sign the petition and tell world leaders to take action on TB and XDR-TB. You'll first see a small window where you can choose your country, and then you'll be taken to a petition that will reach your country's leaders directly.
This petition really does make a difference -- on Friday, the first day of the XDRTB.org campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama issued formal statements on what they'd do about TB if they were elected President of the United States.
05 October 2008
See the XDRTB.org photographs in LA today and this week
All around Los Angeles this week, Phantom Galleries LA has arranged screenings of James Nachtwey's photographs of the XDR-TB epidemic. Here's the full schedule, starting with two showings today, October 5, in downtown LA and in Long Beach:
Sunday, October 5, 2008:
Elevate Film Festival
Nokia Theater at LA Live Downtown Los Angeles
2pm-8pm
University by the Sea, Long Beach
Projection and information booth inside the Lafayette Building Kitchen.
Free class
Thursday, October 9, 2008:
Downtown Art Walk
Projection on wall at 6th and Main Street
7-10 pm
(With an info booth at Phantom Galleries LA at the PE Lofts, 610 Main St., showing the photography of Alexandra Breckenridge and Shalon Goss curated by Edgar Varela Fine Arts.)
Friday, October 10, 2008:
Pasadena Art Night
Projection in window at 82 North Fair Oaks.
7pm-11pm
(With an info booth at the Phantom Galleries LA exhibit Dave Lovejoy: “Circular Logic” at the Majestical Roof Gallery, 88 North Fair Oaks, Suite 102, Pasadena.)
Saturday, October 11, 2008:
NELA Art Walk
Screening at Future Studio, 5558 N Figueroa St., Highland Park
7pm-9pm
Look here for more last-minute additional screenings >>
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04 October 2008
James Nachtwey's wish and video in Portuguese
Marconi Pereira, who blogs in Portuguese at BLOG OM -- Orientação Mediúnica, has captioned James Nachtwey's TEDTalk in Portuguese. This TEDTalk includes the full XDR-TB slideshow, as well as inspiring excerpts from James' original TED Prize acceptance speech, where he talks about what drives him to make change through photography. Many, many thanks, Marconi!
To watch James Nachtwey's TEDTalk subtitled in Portuguese, use YouTube's new "CC" feature, at the bottom right-hand corner of the video player window -- it's circled in red in the image at left).
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04 October 2008
Obama and McCain make statements on TB
Spurred by James Nachtwey's powerful photographs and RESULTS.org, the two major US presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, released statements yesterday detailing their plans for fighting TB. From John McCain's statement:
As President, I will ensure that treatment and prevention programs are funded at levels befitting a wealthy and great nation. I will have a sustained commitment to helping people in need in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere cope with the ravages of this devastating disease.
From Barack Obama's statement:
I will strengthen the health care infrastructure crucial to reducing the spread of tuberculosis and increase U.S. funding for the Global Fund - a partnership that's already saved millions of lives from HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB. We'll meet the Millennium Development Goals, which include halving the number of tuberculosis deaths. And we will live up to our commitment to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
Read both full statements below >>
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Photo of James Nachtwey courtesy of Robert Leslie.
04 October 2008
James Nachtwey's photos projected around the world: pics!
The Flickr set James Nachtwey Projections 2008 collects photos from last night's worldwide photo event -- projecting James Nachtwey's powerful photos of XDR-TB in cities on all 7 continents. Nachtwey's photos of the growing XDR-TB epidemic, a deadly new mutation of tuberculosis, are meant to raise awareness of this disease. Because awareness is precisely what will help stop XDR-TB. Visit XDRTB.org to see James' photos and sign the petition (you may need to turn off your pop-up blocker).
And please add your photos of last night's event -- or of a screening you've organized on your own -- to the Flickr pool.
The photo above comes from the Emergency Room, which is tracking how this story breaks around the world, starting with bloggers and reaching throughout the media.
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03 October 2008
Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR-TB epidemic: James Nachtwey on TED.com
Photojournalist James Nachtwey sees his TED Prize wish come true, as we share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis that's touching off a global medical crisis. Learn 3 quick ways to help at XDRTB.org. (Duration: 5:52.)
See James Nachtwey's powerful photographs on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 300+ TEDTalks -- including more talks about Media That Matters.
Watch James Nachtwey make his TED Prize wish: "I'm working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me break it, in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age."
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27 September 2008
Bloggers: Help break James Nachtwey's story on Oct. 3
Photographer James Nachtwey will be breaking a big story on October 3 -- using his powerful photographs to share a vital story that the world needs to know about. You can be part of the breaking news by adding a badge to your site.
Let your readers know that -- starting October 3 -- these pictures will be shown on outdoor screens around the world and online. Seeing and sharing these pictures will truly make a difference in solving the crisis that James is photographing.
Visit James Nachtwey's blogger tools page to get badges and embeddable video for your blog >>
Find out where to see the photographs on LED screens on all 7 continents >>
Embed this badge: Use this code to embed the badge above on your site:
(Thanks again to Steve and Marc at Sessionwise.)
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29 August 2008
To do this weekend: Vote for Architecture for Humanity
Via Treehugger: The Members Project, from American Express, is a contest to support worthy projects from a $2.5 million fund. 2006 TED Prize winner Cameron Sinclair, of Architecture for Humanity, has submitted a project to help build sustainable livelihoods for artisans in Southeast Asia:
a locally driven social venture that creates an alliance of textile designers and gifted artisans in Southeast Asia to produce luxurious hand-woven fabrics. By providing economic opportunity, we help preserve hand-weaving in Asia while creating environmentally sustainable fabrics. Collections include fabric-by-the-yard as well as home and fashion accessories that are marketed through select retailers. We are ready to hire thousands of weavers and build innovative weaving centers.
You can nominate Cameron's project for consideration in this fund -- or nominate any of the 1,190 projects submitted -- until September 1, and you don't need to be an American Express cardholder to nominate and discuss the projects.
Learn more about the Members Project >>
13 July 2008
Karen Armstrong's Charter for Compassion, on Chautauqua Podcasts
Listen to a 22-minute audio interview with TED Prize winner Karen Armstrong, as she talks with Joan Brown Campbell:
As part of her recent TED Prize, she is in the midst of writing a Charter of Compassion in a collaborative effort; this document, based on the principle of The Golden Rule, will be written and signed by members of the religious community of all faiths around the globe. The progress of this effort, as well as her latest book, The Bible: A Biography, is discussed.
This interview is part of a fascinating series of Chautauqua Podcasts.
13 July 2008
Inspiring stories from students at AIMS
From the TED Prize blog:
More AIMS Student Talks: Be inspired by the stories of current and former AIMS students -- young Africans whose lives have been changed through access to a top-notch scientific education at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Every two weeks, the TED Prize team uploads three talks from the May 12 launch party for the NextEinstein initiative in South Africa (part of the TED Prize wish of physicist Neil Turok). This week we've posted talks from two students, Daphne and Viani, as well as a musical performance by Vusi Mahlasela, who dedicates a song to the students of AIMS.
Watch Daphne's talk below, and see many more amazing talks and performances on the NextEinstein YouTube Channel.
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04 July 2008
This week on TEDPrize.org
There's a great blog over on our sister site, TEDPrize.org, with news of all the 2008 TED Prize winners and interesting updates. This year's wishes are interactive and amazing, with lots of great things happening right now. Keep up via the feed. From the TEDPrize.org blog:
+ Karen Armstrong at The Chautauqua Institution -- last week, Karen gave 5 talks exploring the theme of “What is Religion?” She discusses the distinction between faith and belief; she speaks about silence, the limitations and difficulty of God-talk, the purpose of ritual and the rise of atheism. ... Read more >>
+ AIMS (Abuja) Opens -- The search for the NextEinstein just expanded to Nigeria. On Monday June 30, a new AIMS center opened in Abuja, Nigeria, the capital city. AIMS (Abuja), based at the African University of Science and Technology (AUST), is the second of the fifteen AIMS centers to be rolled out across Africa in the next 5 years. ... Read more >>
+ A TED Table at 826NYC -- At an 826NYC event on Thursday, three TEDsters sponsored chairs for the study area. If one more TED fan sponsors a chair, we will have a TED table-full of chairs. Each chair is $110. If you are interested in sponsoring a chair, contact Jennifer at jennifer [@] 826nyc [dot] org. (And there are many other ways to support 826NYC.) ... Read more >>
+ An 826/TED Field Trip -- pics and reports from the first 826/TED event ... Read more >>
+ What to Watch in July -- Some bright spots in the wasteland of summer TV ... Read more >>
+ Assessing Your Community -- Dave Eggers' wish is based on the idea that communities should be involved in their public schools. His wish happens at the micro level: individuals impact the lives of individual students by offering their talent and time. The Public Education Network just released its Civic Index for Quality Public Education tool which considers this idea on a macro level. The tool assesses the strengths and weakness of the community as it relates to public education. (It helps answer the question: Is your town a good place to be a school?) ... Read more >>
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20 May 2008
Win a pass to TED2009 in Dave Eggers' Once Upon a School challenge
Dave Eggers, winner of the 2008 TED Prize, wished to collect 1,000 stories of private citizens engaged in their area public schools. He called upon every adult to bring their time, skill, and energy to bear on the lives of students. In collaboration with teachers and schools around the world, people are making his wish a reality.
Since TED, a number of inspired, creative, innovative public school partnerships are now in the works: TEDsters are sponsoring books at local 826 chapters, starting programs in schools, creating websites; a number of people have committed to building their own 826-like tutoring centers. These are partnerships that embody the spirit of the TED Prize: we want to support them and help spur more.
Join this group. Challenge yourself to participate in the lives of public school students. Be imaginative, dedicated, and enthusiastic. Then tell us about your work.
The leader or initiator of the three projects that best encapsulate the TED Prize spirit -- vision, commitment, fun, partnership, and change -- will each receive a pass to TED2009 in Long Beach, California.
Find more information and to commit to taking part in the challenge, visit OnceUponaSchool.org.
We look forward to hearing your story.
18 May 2008
How to get involved in TED Prize wishes
Since it began in 2005, the TED Prize has been making wishes that call on the power of the global TED community. Here's a roundup of current TED Prize wishes that you can get involved in -- in large or small ways, with money, ideas, time or skills:
+ In 2007, biologist E.O. Wilson wished that we would help him build a comprehensive catalog of life on Earth. The Encyclopedia of Life launched this spring and is growing -- with many ways for both scientists and non-scientists to contribute. Create an account on the site to hear about the latest updates and opportunities -- including the debut of a tool for uploading your own photos. Find out more about The Encyclopedia of Life and EOL.org>>
+ In 2005, photographer Edward Burtynsky wished for new ways to teach kids about environmental stewardship. Working with WGBH in Boston, his web cartoon show, The Greens, just celebrated its first anniversary and seventh episode. Watch shows online and download art and music, take a movie quiz and share the site with kids you know. Find out more about The Greens >>
+ At TED2008, physicist Neil Turok wished for the TED community's help in developing math and sciences talent all over Africa, though the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). Our next Einstein, he says, could be African. At NextEinstein.org, learn more about AIMS, watch video interviews with students, and find many ways to help in this drive to open 15 math and sciences academies in Africa and fund scholarships for the best and the brightest on the continent. Find out more about NextEinstein.org >>
+ in 2008, writer and activist Dave Eggers gave a hilarious TED Prize talk about his wish: that we will all become personally involved in our local schools, and tell a story about it. Whether you volunteer with a chapter of Dave's 826 National foundation, or on your own, sign in at OnceUponASchool.org and share your story. Find out more about OnceUponASchool.org >>
+ In 2006, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim made an audacious wish: to connect the world for one day through the power of film. Last weekend's Pangea Day was a moving 4-hour festival -- and you can replay the day on PangeaDay.org. Watch the films, speakers and music you missed, find ways to take action, and discuss each film on the site (click on "Comments" to expand the discussion). Find out more about PangeaDay.org >>
+ In 2006, Cameron Sinclair asked TED to help him build an open-source platform to help architects connect with communities in need of designs. The result was the Open Architecture Network -- a successful website that acts as both a clearinghouse for building plans and a vibrant social network, allows its users to sample, remix and customize design work for their needs. To help Sinclair's wish come true, join the community at the Open Architecture Network's website.
+ In 2006, Dr. Larry Brilliant wished to start a global early warning system to prevent the spread of infectious disease. The organization that grew out of this wish, Innovative Support To Emergencies Diseases and Disasters (InSTEDD) is a venue for humanitarian collaboration with a focus on those involved in disease tracking and disaster response. You can help Dr. Brilliant now by test-driving an alpha version of their crisis assistance directory.
07 May 2008
Celebrating the new AIMS Research Centre in South Africa
2008 TED Prize winner Neil Turok sends these great photos from the new AIMS Research Centre, which is set to open May 12 in Muizenberg, Cape Town, South Africa. AIMS -- the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences -- promotes math and sciences education throughout Africa. Its goal is, quite simply, to find the next Einstein in Africa.
During a two-day festival starting this weekend, Neil Turok, AIMS director Fritz Hahne and the students of AIMS will dedicate the new AIMS Research Centre -- and launch a drive to build a dozen more AIMS schools all over Africa. At the party: the head of NASA, two Nobel laureates, poets and musicians, and the 25 amazing students at AIMS, as well as Stephen Hawking, who's expected to give his first-ever lecture in Africa. Look to the TED Blog and to TEDPrize.org for more reports!
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12 April 2008
TED Prize update: "The Greens" turns 1!
When photographer Edward Burtynsky won the 2005 TED Prize, he wished that the TED community would help him teach kids how to live green. This month, his web cartoon series for kids, The Greens, turns 1 year old -- and celebrates 3 million page views! Written and produced by WGBH in Boston (with partners including PBS, TV Ontario, National Geographic, Zerofootprint, Earthwatch Institute, Climate Cartoons, and many grassroots organizations), the site is full of great ways to help kids learn about caring for our planet. This month, a clip from The Greens will be distributed to movie theaters across the US. It's a great message and it's fun to share. The Greens' producer Bill Shribman asks:
If you blog, twitter or otherwise inhabit the Interweb, please grab buttons, blurbs or embeddable video from http://www.meetthegreens.org/share/ to help this great kids' project reach an even wider audience. For more information, you can reach the project's producer Bill Shribman at the_greens@meetthegreens.org
Watch Edward Burtynsky make his TED Prize wish >>
Watch the promo for The Greens >>
08 April 2008
Encyclopedia of Life film is nominated for a Webby
The beautiful film that helped launch the Encyclopedia of Life has been nominated for a 2008 Webby Award. Created by Avenue A | Razorfish, the film is just one outcome of E.O. Wilson's 2007 TED Prize wish: to "help create the key tool that we need to inspire preservation of Earth's biodiversity: the Encyclopedia of Life." You can watch the video on the Webby Award player and cast your vote >>
19 March 2008
Help bring compassion back to religion: Karen Armstrong's TED Prize wish on TED.com
As she accepts her 2008 TED Prize, author and scholar Karen Armstrong talks about how the Abrahamic religions -- Islam, Judaism, Christianity -- have been diverted from the moral purpose they share: to foster compassion. But Armstrong has seen a yearning to change this fact. People want to be religious, she says; we should act to help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help her build a Charter for Compassion -- to help restore the Golden Rule ("Do unto others as you would have them do unto you") as the central global religious doctrine. To brainstorm on this wish and get involved, visit TEDPrize.org >> (Recorded February 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 21:27.)
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28 February 2008
TEDPrize.org launches today
The TED Prize has a brand-new homepage, where you can read all about our 2008 winners, and find out ways to start helping their wishes come true.
Look here for wishes from Dave Eggers, Neil Turok, and Karen Armstrong.
Take a look and start granting these wishes big enough to change the world >>
28 February 2008
TED Prize 2008: Dave Eggers and Tutoring, Neil Turok and the next African Einstein, Karen Armstrong and the Charter for Compassion
(Unedited running notes from the TED2008 conference in Monterey, California. Session six - TED Prize)
Every year at TED, three exceptional people are awarded the TED Prize. They each receive US$ 100'000, but that's not the real prize: they also are granted a wish -- no restrictions -- that they can express in front of the TED audience, asking for help to turn it into reality.
2007 Updates
Last year, former president Bill Clinton, photographer James Nachtwey and biologist EO Wilson received the TED Prize. What happened since:
- Clinton asked for help in developing a "high quality rural health system for the whole country" of Rwanda: teams have been sent to the country, technology is being developed, and funds have been raised.
- Nachtwey solicited help for reporting and spreading "a story that the world needs to know about", related to public health: many partners have given a hand, and the story will be released in September in "Time" magazine, on billboards, through public events and communication campaigns, etc.
- EO Wilson wanted help in creating the Encyclopedia of Life, an online resource with an indefinitely expandable page for each species, contributed to by scientists and amateurs: the EOL is now under development and the first version of the site is live.
The three wishes still need support to be completed. See a detailed update here.
2008 Winners
This year's TED Prize winners are writer David Eggers, physicist Neil Turok, and religious scholar Karen Armstrong.
Eggers is an author of many bestselling books, including the recent "What is the what" about a Sudanese refugee, a publisher of books and literary magazines, and a teacher-at large: In 1998 he founded in San Francisco 826Valencia, a very successful writing and tutoring lab for young people from the neighborhood, which has since been cloned in five other American cities.
He tells in a very funny way and with great pictures the story of 826Valencia, of the adjoining store (a mad trove of delightful things), of the chapters in other cities, and -- his TED Prize wish -- he wants now to go farther than that, because "empowering a child with writing is the essence of democracy". He asks the conference's attendees -- and anyone else who's in a position to help -- to "find a way to directly engage with a public school in your area" and then share the story of their involvement on the OnceUponASchool website, hoping in their inspirational effect to start a virtuous cycle, "so that within a year we have 1000 examples of transformative partnerships".
The site went live minutes ago, offering guidelines for partnering with schools and providing a space for receiving people's pledges and stories of involvement (there are already several telling stories of literacy and writing programs). Many things are needed to make Dave's inspiring wish a reality: personal engagement by the largest possible number of people, of course, but also very practical things such as funding and web hosting.
Interested in supporting Eggers' wish? See an implementation plan and a list of needs here and a discussion board here.
Neil Turok is a South-African born physicist at Cambridge, and a close collaborator of Stephen Hawking, with whom he speculated that the Big Bang wasn't the beginning, that the universe existed before the Bang and that there may be Bangs in the future, and that we may live in an endless universe.
In his spare time, Turok is the founder of the African institute for mathematical sciences (AIMS), hosted in a converted hotel in Cape Town, minutes from the beach (which helps in attracting top lecturers...). "If you don't have math, you are not going to enter the modern age, he says. We emphasize problem-solving, working in groups. Everyone lives together in the hotel, lecturers and students, so it's not surprising to find impromptu tutorials at 1am. We specially emphasize areas of great relevance to African development." Turok tells stories of AIMS students (who come from three dozen countries) who went on to Masters and PhDs, and brings two of them up on stage.
Rarely a TED wish has been expressed more unequivocally than Turok's:
Help me, he says, make sure that the next Einstein will be African, by "unlocking and nurturing scientific talent" across
the continent, because The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans".
His wish is a crisp, yet very ambitious vision, and to realize it he has a plan: building 15 centres of excellence across Africa, possibly modeled on AIMS but specialized in different areas of science, recruiting outstanding students and teachers, developing fellowship and entrepreneurship programs, attracting both private and public support, etc. Turok plans to start with Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda and Madagascar; he has already obtained political support, and local scientists will be leading the way. "The institutes have to be relevant, innovative, cost-effective, and high quality, because we want Africa to be rich."
Interested in helping out? At this point, everything is needed, from building a website for what Turok named the "Next Einstein From Africa" program to teaching equipment and more. Plan and list of needs here, discussion board here.
Religious thinker Karen Armstrong is a former nun and has written more than 20 books on faith and the major religions, and is a powerful voice for ecumenical understanding.
She tells how she "encountered" Judaism and Islam while reporting a story for British TV in Jerusalem. In that tortured city, where the three faiths jostle so closely, you understand what religion can be. It led me, she says, to look at my own religion in a different way, and found things that were incredible: unproven, abstract doctrines. Belief, which we make such a fuss about today, is actually a recent enthusiasm, it surfaced in the 17th century in the West. Previously, belief only meant love. "Credo" didn't mean to accept certain acts of faith: it meant I commit myself, I engage myself.
If religion is not about believing things, what is it about? It's about behaving differently, in a committed way -- and then you begin to understand the truths of religions. You understand religious doctrines only when you put them into practice. In each of the major world's faiths, compassion is not only the test of any true religiosity, also the way to get into the presence of the divinity. In compassion we remove ourselves from the center of our world and we put another person there. Every major tradition has put at its core a "golden rule": do not do to others what you do not want be done to you.
But look at our world. We are living in a world where religion has been hijacked, where terrorist sing Koranic verses to justify their atrocities, where we have Christians judging other people. We have a talent as a species for messing up wonderful things.
The traditions also insisted that you could not and must not confine your compassion to your own group. You must have concern for everybody. Love your enemies. Honor the stranger. We formed you into tribes and nations so that you may know one another, says the Koran.
There is also a great deal of religious illiteracy. People seem to equate faith with "believing things", and very often secondary goals get pushed into first place instead of the golden rule, compassion, because the golden rule is difficult. A lot of religious people prefer to be right, rather than compassionate.
Since 9/11 I've travelled all over the world and found everywhere a desire for change. Recently in Pakistan hundreds of people came to my lectures, especially young people, asking what they can do to create change.
It seems to me that our current situation is so serious that any ideology that doesn't promote a sense of global understanding and global appreciation of each other is failing the test of the time. The golden rule should be applied globally, we should not treat other nations in ways that we would not like to be treated ourselves. It's time that we move beyond the idea of toleration, and towards appreciation of the other.
Armstrong's TED Prize wish sits right in the middle of some of today's most profound global tensions: help me, she asked, "with the creation, launch and propagation of a Charter for Compassion", to be crafted by a group of twelve inspirational thinkers from the three Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and "based on the fundamental principles of universal justice and respect".
Bridging the divide among the three prevalent monotheistic faiths, which all claim Abraham as part of their religious history, using the lens of compassion, will require more than scholarly preeminence and good will. It will call for the creation of a totally new narrative, stepping beyond hatred and defensiveness and, in Armstrong's own words, "making the authentic voice of religion a power in the world that is conducive to peace". It will demand a subtle effort that engages everybody. It will necessitate operational support (which will come from the UN Alliance of Civilizations, but also from individuals). Mostly, it will depend on the participation of many and on finding the right answer to the key question: Who are the spiritual leaders of these three religions who should be solicited to participate in the group of twelve?
Interested in supporting Karen to turn her very ambitious and very necessary vision into reality? Plan and list of needs, and discussion board.
A performance by South African singer Wusi Mahlasela closes the session.
The videos of today's three TED Prize speeches will be released on TED.com in a couple of weeks.
28 February 2008
TED Prize 2008 session live now
The 2008 TED Prize winners, Dave Eggers, Neil Turok and Karen Armstrong, are on stage now at TED in Monterey, giving their speeches and expressing their wishes. The session is webcast live here (5:15pm-7:30pm, California time).
28 February 2008
Encyclopedia of Life launches!
E.O. Wilson made this TED Prize wish in 2007: Help me build the key tool that we need to inspire preservation of Earth's biodiversity: the Encyclopedia of Life. Today, the Encyclopedia of Life website has launched, with the first 30,000 pages, each one describing a single species, with descriptions and photos contributed by scientists and naturalists and people around the globe. Within a decade, it'll have more than 1.5 million pages, each for a single species.
The New York Times has a great story giving more background on this wish >>
(Please note -- the site is going to be very busy tonight!)
27 February 2008
Watch the TED Prize wishes live on Thursday
Join a global audience and watch online as the 2008 TED Prize winners, Dave Eggers, Neil Turok and Karen Armstrong, share their inspiring visions, followed by the moving and infectious music of Vusi Mahlasela.
It will be an evening of big ideas, bold plans and audacious wishes -- and you'll hear ways to help grant their wishes right away!
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31 January 2008
Pangea Day: Hear Jehane Noujaim on NPR
Pangea Day -- the global film festival, happening May 10, 2008 -- comes from a wish made by filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, who won the TED Prize in 2006. Listen to Jehane talk about her vision for the festival, which is taking busily taking shape now.
And it's not too late to submit your film for the February 15, 2008, deadline! Submit a film. Share a story. The world will be watching. Find out here how to submit your short film or video >>
04 December 2007
Nokia and Pangea Day combine efforts, to connect people around the world through film
At Nokia World in Nokia today announced its global partnership with Pangea Day, a unique event that will bring together millions of people around the world through the power of film on May 10, 2008.
Pangea Day will be broadcast globally to millions on television, in digital theaters, online and via mobile devices. It will be a live 4-hour program of powerful films, visionary speakers, and uplifting music. The goal of Pangea Day is to create greater understanding among different people and cultures, and to form a global community focused on improving the future for all people.
"From the earliest days of movies, film has had the power to bring people together. But today, Internet technology is allowing film to bring together not only neighbors, but an entire global community," said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia president and CEO (pictured at right). "Nokia is proud to work with Pangea Day as we embark on this important shared mission of connecting people across the globe."
For many people today, especially in developing markets, the mobile phone is providing their first Internet experience.
"Perhaps Nokia's greatest contribution to Pangea Day is the ability of our technology to give a voice to people who previously were unable to take part in the global community that is the Internet," Kallasvuo said. "By integrating the power of wireless technology into Pangea Day, we can help it meet its goal of bringing together people from around the world."
Nokia and Pangea Day will work with aspiring filmmakers in disadvantaged areas and conflict zones to make it possible for their stories to also be told. By distributing video-enabled mobile devices to these filmmakers, their works can be captured and shared globally, demonstrating how wireless technology can not only provide a platform for people of diverse backgrounds to express themselves, but also to bring them together.
"Pangea Day was created by TED Prize winner Jehane Noujaim. One of the core goals of the TED Prize is to recognize a new generation of global citizens," says Chris Anderson, Curator of TED. "Jehane's work has shown how powerfully film can help us understand and connect with other people.
For more information on Pangea Day, visit www.pangeaday.org.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices and provides people with experiences in music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games and business mobility through these devices. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for communications networks.
21 November 2007
Announcing 2008 TED Prize winners
The TED Prize was introduced in 2005, and it is unlike any other award. Although the winners receive a prize of $100,000 each, the real prize is that they are granted a WISH. "A wish to change the world." There are no formal restrictions on the wish. We ask our winners to think big and to be creative. The goal is that it creates an incredible sense of excitement and common purpose. It inspires the TED community, and all those who hear about the wish, to offer their help in making the wish come true.
Three winners are chosen each year. They could be anyone with world-changing potential: inventors or entrepreneurs, designers or artists, visionaries or mavericks, story-tellers or persuaders. But they must be people who the judges believe have the ability to inspire others to do something great for the world.
Our new winners, religious scholar Karen Armstrong, author Dave Eggers and physicist Neil Turok, will announce their wishes at TED2008 in Monterey, on February 28, 2008, and their presentations will be released online to the world shortly afterward.
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14 September 2007
10 May 2008: Pangea Day
When she was awarded the 2006 TED Prize, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim expressed a wish: a global acceptance of diversity, mediated through the power of film. (Watch her speech.)
The project is taking off, and its ambition level is spectacular. On May 10, 2008, Pangea Day, sites in New York City, Rio, London, Dharamsala, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Kigali will be video-conferenced live to produce a 4-hour program of powerful films, supplemented by visionary speakers, and global musicians.
The purpose: to use the power of film to promote better understanding of our common humanity. A global audience will watch through the Internet, television, digital cinemas, and mobile phones. Yes, of course, movies alone can’t change the world. But the people who watch them can.
To start the process, a short Pangea Day trailer (2:30 min) has just been given front-page exposure on YouTube, inviting anyone to submit their films. Pangea is seeking films "that provoke, entertain and inspire". "Images are powerful to divide, but also to unite", says the trailer. Here it is:
29 July 2007
Ed Burtynsky's beautifully monstrous "Manufactured landscapes"
If you are planning (you should) to go see Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary "Manufactured landscapes", which opened last week in theaters across the US after spending a year mesmerizing film festivals audiences and will soon arrive in Europe, make sure you get there in time, for nothing describes the scale and essence of today's globalized industry more tellingly than the opening scene: a seven-minutes tracking shot of the floor of a boundless Chinese factory, row after row after row of disciplined workers and efficient repetition that Stanley Kubrick could have filmed.
"Manufactured landscapes" is based on the work of photographer -- and 2005 TED Prize winner (watch his speech) -- Ed Burtynsky, whose camera has captured stunning images of man-transformed landscapes around the world.
Burtynsky is not much interested in micro: his focus is on vastness, on the scale of the environmental scars and transformations brought forth by industry, energy production and transportation. The documentary (trailer) is a hybrid: it's a meditation that makes very little use of words, leaving it to images and situational sounds and noises to tell the story, and at the same time a convincing illustration of the monstrosity of today's global trade. Although Baichwal shows images from Canada, California and Bangladesh -- and makes generous use of Burtynsky's TEDPrize speech -- the movie's main character is China, the "manufacture to the world": there, Burtynsky, followed by Baichwal's cameras, has shot factories, huge container ports, quarries, the Three Gorges Dam, electronics graveyards, the rapid urbanization of Shanghai. (Another great movie, recently, has shown some of this within a fictional frame: Gianni Amelio's "The Missing Star").
Burtynsky's work (see his books) can be unsettling. He extracts beautiful, sometimes poetic images from outrageous alterations and destructions of the environment. He calls himself an artist -- not a reporter -- and refrains from judging what he photographs or from politicizing it, wanting, as he said at TED, to "make people think harder about our planet's future" without suggesting them a direction. As the film goes I find myself thinking of painters: Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian, Salvador Dalì because, respectively, Burtynsky's photos of a computer components dump, the stacks of containers in the port of Tianjin, and the lunar shipbreaking beach of Chittagong (Bangladesh) oddly remind of their artworks.
The photographer has a rationale for aestheticizing this devastation: that's a way to gain access.
Most of what Burtynsky photographs is on private land: "My work is
mostly negotiation, with some photography thrown in", he said half-jokingly at the
premiere in San Francisco. There is a scene in the movie where he is
shown with his assistants and an interpreter trying to talk Chinese
officials into opening the gates to a neverending coal yard, and the
key sentence is "we will make it beautiful". Asked how he convinced
factory managers to gather all their thousands of employees on a street
for the picture that makes the poster of the movie (see image),
Burtynsky explained that what Westerners see as a robotization of
workers, the Chinese proudly consider an organizational and industrial
achievement.
This discrepancy echoes throughout the documentary. It powerfully reminds us that "stuff" doesn't just happen, that it comes from somewhere, although we tend to forget or ignore it (thought of the impact of the extraction industry lately?) And it illustrates how, as we transform nature, we redefine who we are and our relationship to the planet.
13 July 2007
E.O. Wilson on PBS: Why should we care if the woodpecker goes?
The last "Bill Moyers Journal", the weekly report on PBS, featured a long interview (video - transcript) by Moyers with biologist and TED Prize 2007 winner EO Wilson. The focus was very much on Wilson's career -- "No one in our time has added more to our understanding of Earth's ecology than Ed Wilson" is how Moyers described him -- but Moyers took the opportunity to also ask questions about the Encyclopedia of Life. The EOL is Wilson's TED Prize wish (video - summary - text): It's a vast project aimed at documenting all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth, and those yet to be discovered ("We're maybe today about 1/10 through the discovery of species", says Wilson). Efforts towards an EOL have been underway since January 2006, but Wilson's TED2007 speech has significantly accelerated the process, with the McArthur Foundation leading a US$ 50 million funding commitment, leading scientific institutions including Harvard University and the Smithsonian teaming up, and agency Avenue A/Razorfish creating a first design concept for the Encyclopedia and a video to explain the ambitious vision behind the initiative, using photography by Frans Lanting (watch his TED 2005 speech) and others.
Moyers is a great interviewer. At a certain point, he asks Wilson: why should we care if the woodpecker goes? I mean, we've lost---how many species have we lost?
Wilson: How many species going extinct or becoming very rare do you think it takes before you see something happening? We now know from experiments and theory that the more species you take out of an ecosystem like a pond, a patch of forest, a little bit of marine shallow environments, the more you take out the less stable it becomes. If you have a tsunami or a severe drought or a fire, it is less likely that that ecosystem, that body of species in that particular environment, is going to come back all the way. So it becomes less stable with fewer species. And then we also know it becomes less productive. In other words, it's not able to produce as many kilograms of new matter from photosynthesis and passage through the ecosystem. It's less productive. It sure is less interesting, though, isn't it? And more than that: we lose the services of these species.
Moyers: The services of these species.
Wilson: Yes, services of these species to us. Like pollination and water purification.
Moyers: That we get free from nature.
Wilson: Yeah. Here's an easy way to remember it.
25 June 2007
Ed Burtynsky's Manufactured Landscapes: The Movie
In an extended run at the Film Forum in New York City (and now playing in Philadelphia), the film Manufactured Landscapes is in the spirit of Edward Burtynsky's 2005 TED Prize wishes: to show the world the size, the devastation, the sheer astonishingness of the industrial landscapes we have created -- and to create a desire to learn more. Burtynsky's large-format photographs capture Chinese factories that stretch on for acres, shipbreaking beaches where manual laborers tear apart rusting oil tankers, mountains of slag and rivers of waste. Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal accompanied Burtynsky as he shot in China and Bangladesh, and offers context around the edges of the visuals. It's stunning and heartbreaking in equal measure.
Watch Ed Burtynsky's 2005 TED Prize acceptance speech here; WIRED.com has posted a portfolio of photographs here. And check out one result of Burtynsky's TED Prize wishes: Meet the Greens, a site and show that teach kids about the environment.
04 May 2007
2008 TED Prize Nominations
Yes, it seems as though we just announced the 2007 wishes (and, in fact, we did), but it's once again time to start the search for next year's TED Prize winners. We're looking for three more remarkable people that can tap into the energy of TED and do something extraordinary that will contribute to the future of life on Earth. The nomination form is now online, where there's also much more detailed information about what makes a good TED Prize winner. Please use the contact form if you have any questions.
04 April 2007
2007 TED Prize winner Bill Clinton on TEDTalks
Accepting his 2007 TED Prize, Bill Clinton says he's trying to build a better world to hand to his daughter. Unequal, unstable and unsustainable, our world must correct its course, and private citizens ("like me") can be powerful forces for change. His Clinton Foundation, fresh from its success negotiating down pharmaceutical prices in the developing world, is now running a pilot health care system in Rwanda, based on the work of Dr. Paul Farmer in Haiti. In 18 months, it has shown potential as a model for the entire developing world. Clinton's TED wish: Help him build this system in Rwanda, to bring world-class health care to a people who have overcome deadly hatred to rebuild their nation. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 25:52)
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04 April 2007
2007 TED Prize winner E.O. Wilson on TEDTalks
As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of his constituents, the insects and small creatures, to learn more about our biosphere. We know so little about nature, he says, that we're still discovering tiny organisms indispensable to life; and yet we're steadily, methodically, vigorously destroying nature. Wilson identifies five grave threats to biodiversity (a term he coined), and makes his TED wish: that we will work together on the Encyclopedia of Life, a web-based compendium of data from scientists and amateurs on every aspect of the biosphere. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 24:21)
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04 April 2007
2007 TED Prize winner James Nachtwey
Accepting his 2007 TED Prize, James Nachtwey talks about his decades as a photojournalist. A slideshow of his photos, beginning in 1981 in Northern Ireland, reveals two parallel themes in his work. First, as he says: "The frontlines of contemporary wars are right where people live." Street violence, famine, disease: he has photographed all these modern WMDs. Second, when a photo catches the world's attention, it can truly drive action and change. In his TED wish, he asks for help gaining access to a story that needs to be told, and developing a new, digital way to show these photos to the world. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 23:41)
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10 March 2007
TED2007 Day Three: things that knocked my hat in the creek
Wow! Day Three at TED2007 ROCKED! A magical day which got crank-started by a truly electric presentation on the perils of Local Warming.
This was a day which just can't wait for the TEDTalks to come out. Daniel Goleman made a wonderful connection between emotional intelligence and the empathy which will be required -- by all of us -- to make more informed, broader-scope consumption and action decisions in the future. Later in the day Eames Demetrios, grandson of Charles Eames (and a true design thinker in his own right) made the same point in a different way -- humanity has got the information now; we just need to start making better choices.
Today (actually, yesterday, since once again I find myself blogging at 4 in the morning -- funny that...) was one of those classic TED days where almost everything was mind-blowing,where just about everything knocked my hat in the creek. Highlights for me were JJ Abrams and his Mystery Box; Jeff Skoll and his enlightened humanity; Deborah Scranton and her movie The War Tapes, which every global citizen must see and experience; Will Wright and his latest "game" which I couldn't help but think was the fortuitous answer to the TEDPrize wish of 2007 TEDPrize winner E.O. Wilson; Jaime Lerner as a vibrant example of the power of pure enthusiasm; Eames Demetrios for giving us the gift of previously unseen movies which exposed the vernacular power of iterative prototyping, as well as a parable of a banana leaf which pretty much sums up TED 2006+2007 in a nutshell (you MUST watch this TEDTalk when it comes out!); and of course Tracy Chapman and Isabel Allende for their artistry and authenticity.
It was a good day.
Above, all, I want to express my personal gratitude for Thomas Dolby and the musicians of the Jazz Mafia for the musical punch they give to all of TED:
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