The #Freesouls Weekly is out! 35 curated webpage links for the Week of Nov 14- Nov 20, 2011. Featured stories via #TEDxYouth Day, #StartupWeekend, #Web2Summit, and Ashoka Foundation's civic media Changemakers competition. Also check out the bags links section to know more details of several featured stories.
An extraordinary online event for youth (and adults) — is happening around the world and on the web this weekend:
TEDxYouthDay — a collection of nearly 100 different TEDx events for young people around the world — kicks off tomorrow, November 19, and runs through Monday, November 21.
Live events will happen in 42 countries, with 47 different livestreams to watch in many languages.
The Wikipedia Education Program has grown by leaps and bounds since its inception last year, as part of the Public Policy Initiative. In 2011, the program ventured beyond the United States into Canada and India, making the measurements of the program’s impact even more important. We want to use these metrics (some of which are outlined below) as tools that help us understand and improve the Wikipedia Education Program as a whole, while also understanding individual pieces of the system better.
"Creative Commons allows intelligence to flow into unexpected places, and revives the creativity in all human beings. That’s an epic quest worth joining!" — Max Kaizen, Project Lead for CC South Africa
This week, Andres Guadamuz (CC Costa Rica) is representing Creative Commons at the 8th Session of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The agenda [PDF] promises review of several pending recommendations as well as a discussion of future work by the CDIP. Consistent with protocol, Creative Commons prepared a statement for the opening session, which you can read here, as well as find CC’s prior statements and presentations at the CDIP and other WIPO meetings and conferences.
Today, marks the premiere of the first Spanish movie under a CC license (CC BY-NC-SA) in a Spanish cinema. Interferències, “an audiovisual and educational project launched from the Debt Observatory (ODG) and Quepo,” premieres in Barcelona at both the Alexandra and Girona cinemas. Interferències aims to educate and mobilize citizens, creating awareness of the world’s current financial and social situation. CC Spain has also covered the event, but here is the press release in English
Shima'a Helmy joins filmmakers and friends Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton onstage at PopTech to talk about their collaboration on an upcoming documentary film, If. The film explores what it's like being a young revolutionary through the eyes of four different Egyptian women, including Helmy.
We are extremely excited to announce that today we’ve released talks from every person who took the PopTech stage last month. For your viewing pleasure, all talks are now available online.
Today in London, our partners at the Mozilla Foundation are announcing the first cohort of Knight-Mozilla Fellows. As Dan Sinker describes below, each of the five is an accomplished developer, and each will be placed within a world-class newsroom. At Knight Foundation, we’re of course eager to see what the fellows produce with their partner news organizations. But because the code they produce will be open source, the fellows will have an impact far outside of their home newsroom. – John S. Bracken
Cole Gillespie is a 2012 Knight-Mozilla Fellow at Zeit Online, one of five fellows who will be joining leading newsrooms for a year to help them solve technology problems.
Gillespie is a JavaScript developer originating from deep within the North Carolina Appalachians. In recent years he has spent his time in Raleigh, North Carolina, working with various companies including Project Mastermind, National Geographic, CNN and IBM. He spends most of his free time playing music, hacking open source projects or trolling in IRC trying to keep up with the web's rapid evolution.
Richard Saul Wurman, creator of the TED (1984-2002), TEDMED (1998-2010) & the eg conferences (2006), will celebrate improvised conversation in its most informative manner.
No presentations
No schedule
No expensive tickets
Simply pairings of amazingly interesting individuals prompted by a question, generating a conversation. For 10 minutes to 50 minutes. And so it will go – conversations interlaced with threads of improvised music. An astrophysicist & a microbiologist. An actor & a playwright. A jazz musician & a classical one. An energetic exploration of the lost art of conversing.
TEDxSingapore's 7th Idea Event, TEDxYouthDay venue host Singapore Management University. Official photograph from our sponsor Unielement Photography and Design Studio www.unielement.com
The Global Network Initiative (GNI) seeks energetic and engaged interns for the academic semester and summer in its Washington, DC office. Internships are open to graduate and undergraduate students in all majors. We are now accepting applications for Spring 2012 and Summer 2012.
The GNI is a non-profit, multi-stakeholder initiative focused on protecting and advancing freedom of expression and privacy in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. The GNI strives to craft global standards for corporate responsibility in the technology sector. Our membership includes companies, civil society organizations (including human rights and press freedom groups), investors, and academics.
TEDxYouthDay is a series of TEDx events happening all around the world on November 19 - 21, 2011. The events are designed to empower and inspire young people.
Nearly 100 TEDx events for youth and kids in over 42 countries, happening now through to November 21. Inspiring talks from both adults and young people in English, Arabic, French, Portuguese and many more languages. Plan your viewing for this weekend and select “watch now” to view events currently streaming live!
Storify is one of those companies that arrives at its point in history just in the nick of time. Its co-founders pitched the idea during the Green Revolution in Iran, one of the first popular uprisings driven by social media. "Now it's actually happening here, on the soil of America, with the Occupy movement," says co-founder Xavier Damman.
The world needed a shareable, embeddable way to gather the tweetstorm of breaking news and turn it into a lasting document. Storify has made that possible. After a closed beta period with professional journalists, Storify opened to the public in April.
This is not an overview of all the things that have happened at P2PU in the last year, but rather it’s a reflection on along three broad themes: (1) building a social learning platform and community, (2) laying the groundwork, and building the partnerships necessary for hacking certification, (3) and making P2PU run like a well-oiled machine, that is fast and nimble, but remains committed to openness and transparency.
The problem is not only the small number of women with bachelor's degrees in computer science coming in the door; it's also the industry's inability to retain them. Women leave their technical jobs far more often than men.
We are developing tools for organizers without access to technology to create TEDx experiences in diverse locations around the world.
The purpose of the TEDx in a Box concept is to give TEDx organizers the tools necessary to host TEDx events in under-resourced areas and informal settlements around the world. TEDx has been experimenting with this idea and has previously distributed ten boxes at locations around the world. TEDx engaged IDEO.org to redesign the TEDx in a Box in a human-centered way, incorporating feedback from TEDx experiences with the initial boxes. The TEDx in a Box must be operational in areas with limited access to electricity and infrastructure, and be able to cross language barriers.
TEDx Teams Up With IDEO to Relaunch "TEDx in a Box" Initiative TEDx has teamed up with IDEO.org to launch the second phase of the TEDx in a Box initiative, first launched in December of last year.
IDEO.org is a non-profit design and innovation organization focused on solving challenges in poverty and spreading human-centered design through the social sector. Human-centered design enables organizations to create and deliver innovative solutions to pressing challenges that are rooted in the needs of people.
The InK Conference (which stands for Innovation and Knowledge) is run by longtime TEDster Lakshmi Pratury, who co-hosted TEDIndia in 2009. TED’s content partnership agreement with INK allow us to bring great talks to TED.com — like today’s talk from Alexander Tsiaras — and we’re thrilled that the conference is back for a second year.
The 2011 INK Conference is hosted by Lakshmi in beautiful Jaipur, India, on December 8-11, and she’s pulled together an astonishing speaker lineup spanning business, science, technology, nonprofit organizations and the arts.
As a co-producer of the “Collateral Murder” Wikileaks video, Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir has a lot to say about freedom of information. In this talk, she discusses her activism and the legislation she is bringing about to keep information available in the public domain.
TED is currently looking for innovators from different disciplines including technology, design, entertainment, engineering, economics, journalism, etc., to be part of an eclectic team of thinkers for TEDGlobal 2012 Conference. TED expects these innovators to have potential to bring positive changes in the world for the betterment of the lives of people. TED invites youths in the age group of 21-40, from regions of Africa, Asia/Pacific, the Carribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East. However, anyone from around the world and over 18 years of age is welcome to apply to be a TED Fellow.
Last date for submitting the applications is December 06, 2011.
The TEDx program is not yet three years old, but we are already celebrating a major milestone: our 10,000th TEDxTalk. These talks come from over 2,600 independently organized events held in 115 different countries and 39 different languages. They have been viewed over 18 million times, with many more events happening each day.
I recently moderated two discussions between the finalists in the Ashoka Foundation's civic media Changemakers competition. The discussions, which spanned time zones and countries, were hosted using a Google Hangout. (While there were a couple bumps using a Hangout for this purpose, including some latency and jitter to limited bandwidth, the platform worked reasonably well.)
We were joined on the first Hangout by Esther Wojcicki from Creative Commons, who served as a judge for the competition. We talked with contestants about their work, what inspired them, what challenges they face in their work, and how current events in the Middle East and beyond are changing the civic media space.
TEDxYouthDay is a series of TEDx events happening all around the world on November 19 - 21, 2011. The events are designed to empower and inspire young people. Nearly 100 TEDx events for youth and kids in over 42 countries, happening now through to November 21. Inspiring talks from both adults and young people in English, Arabic, French, Portuguese and many...
Ashoka Changemakers®, with the support of Google, is seeking innovations in Citizen Media. Four entries that receive the most votes from the Changemakers online community will each earn a prize of US $5,000.
The IDEO.org team is developing tools for organizers without access to technology to create TEDx experiences in diverse locations around the world.
#IDEO #Design_Thinking #TEDx #TEDxBox
The #Freesouls Weekly is out! 33 curated webpage links for the Week of Nov 7- Nov 13, 2011. Featured stories via #TEDHighConcept, @Wired, #Google+ pages, #Aiweiwei, and the #berlin9 Open Access Conference.
Also check out the bags links section to know more details of several featured stories.
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