Tribeca Film Festival, Professor Clayton Christensen
And Disruptor Foundation Announce Honorees
For Third Annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards
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Awards to highlight successful disruptive innovation in non-traditional, identity-based domains such as culture, education, healthcare, philanthropy, politics, religion and social entrepreneurship
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Twitter and Square Founder Jack Dorsey and Room to Read Founder John Wood to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honorees; .Thinking, Fast and Slow. by Daniel Kahneman named Book of the Year; Award Winners Also Include Justin Bieber, Scooter Braun, Rick Rubin, Pat Metheny, Edward Burns
The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), in association with noted Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen and the Disruptor Foundation, announced it will hold the third annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, hosted by Nyu Stern School of Business, on April 27. The 11th edition of Tff runs April 18 to 29.
Lifetime Achievement Awards will be given to Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and Square, and John Wood, founder of Room to Read.
And Disruptor Foundation Announce Honorees
For Third Annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards
***
Awards to highlight successful disruptive innovation in non-traditional, identity-based domains such as culture, education, healthcare, philanthropy, politics, religion and social entrepreneurship
***
Twitter and Square Founder Jack Dorsey and Room to Read Founder John Wood to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honorees; .Thinking, Fast and Slow. by Daniel Kahneman named Book of the Year; Award Winners Also Include Justin Bieber, Scooter Braun, Rick Rubin, Pat Metheny, Edward Burns
The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), in association with noted Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen and the Disruptor Foundation, announced it will hold the third annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, hosted by Nyu Stern School of Business, on April 27. The 11th edition of Tff runs April 18 to 29.
Lifetime Achievement Awards will be given to Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and Square, and John Wood, founder of Room to Read.
- 4/3/2012
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Photograph by Douglas Sonders
Alec Ross Senior Adviser for Innovation, Office of the Secretary of State Washington, D.C.
Ross, 39, heads the State Department’s initiative to work with technologists in the private sector.
"We Have To Leverage technology in service of our diplomatic and development goals. One of our tactics is sending abroad delegations of innovators who have a deeply ingrained can-do mind-set. In Russia, we worked with technologists to develop a program to better track human trafficking. In Mexico, where the focus is drug cartels, we are months away from an anonymous tip line. When members of our technology delegations travel, they aren't going to sip tea at a mahogany table and sign documents codifying agreements. They roll up their sleeves, get mud on their shoes, and really experience and engage in a local community. I'm surprised at how much people want to help. Right now, the challenge...
Alec Ross Senior Adviser for Innovation, Office of the Secretary of State Washington, D.C.
Ross, 39, heads the State Department’s initiative to work with technologists in the private sector.
"We Have To Leverage technology in service of our diplomatic and development goals. One of our tactics is sending abroad delegations of innovators who have a deeply ingrained can-do mind-set. In Russia, we worked with technologists to develop a program to better track human trafficking. In Mexico, where the focus is drug cartels, we are months away from an anonymous tip line. When members of our technology delegations travel, they aren't going to sip tea at a mahogany table and sign documents codifying agreements. They roll up their sleeves, get mud on their shoes, and really experience and engage in a local community. I'm surprised at how much people want to help. Right now, the challenge...
- 5/4/2011
- by E.B. Boyd and Rachel Z. Arndt
- Fast Company
Alec Ross on subversive technologies, Libya, Wikileaks, and the future of digital diplomacy."We're willing to make mistakes of commission," he tells Fast Company, "rather than omission."
In the turbulent center of the Venn diagram involving President Obama's multilateral foreign policy, open government mandates, and Middle-East unrest is Alec Ross, the Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. From asking Twitter to delay down-time maintenance during the 2009 student uprising to courting programmers for Africa, Ross's office has been tasked with coordinating the monumental logistics of a new philosophy that embraces global interdependence. Ross spoke with Fast Company about the meaning of the highly controversial "global citizenship" concept, the diplomatic difficulties in supporting subversive technologies, and the future of transparency.
Radical Global Citizenship
Upon entering office, Obama vowed an end to cowboy diplomacy. Ross says the U.S. is exercising influence "on a more multilateral basis, and...
In the turbulent center of the Venn diagram involving President Obama's multilateral foreign policy, open government mandates, and Middle-East unrest is Alec Ross, the Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. From asking Twitter to delay down-time maintenance during the 2009 student uprising to courting programmers for Africa, Ross's office has been tasked with coordinating the monumental logistics of a new philosophy that embraces global interdependence. Ross spoke with Fast Company about the meaning of the highly controversial "global citizenship" concept, the diplomatic difficulties in supporting subversive technologies, and the future of transparency.
Radical Global Citizenship
Upon entering office, Obama vowed an end to cowboy diplomacy. Ross says the U.S. is exercising influence "on a more multilateral basis, and...
- 4/4/2011
- by Gregory Ferenstein
- Fast Company
Veteran British actress Sheila Hancock has opened up about her tumultuous relationship history, admitting she is drawn to volatile men who enjoy boozing.
The stage and screen star has been married twice - to actors Alec Ross and John Thaw, who both died from oesophageal cancer and were both known for being heavy drinkers.
Now Hancock has opened up about the marriages, insisting she opts for addictive partners because she holds similar traits.
During an interview for Sky Arts, she says, "There's no doubt that the men in my life had a volatility that came from drinking very often, and I must be drawn to that, otherwise why would I continuously have done it? So there is a part of me that likes the drama of that.
"It is well known that people who are involved with people who have addictive problems have a problem themselves. You are drawn to mad living, a kind of insane thing. It is much nicer when it stops, believe you me."
And Hancock admits she didn't help Ross and Thaw overcome their issues: "Constantly going along with the moods and the madness was detrimental to my partners, and it is only when you learn that there is unacceptable behaviour that you should not accept, that those people have to pull themselves together."...
The stage and screen star has been married twice - to actors Alec Ross and John Thaw, who both died from oesophageal cancer and were both known for being heavy drinkers.
Now Hancock has opened up about the marriages, insisting she opts for addictive partners because she holds similar traits.
During an interview for Sky Arts, she says, "There's no doubt that the men in my life had a volatility that came from drinking very often, and I must be drawn to that, otherwise why would I continuously have done it? So there is a part of me that likes the drama of that.
"It is well known that people who are involved with people who have addictive problems have a problem themselves. You are drawn to mad living, a kind of insane thing. It is much nicer when it stops, believe you me."
And Hancock admits she didn't help Ross and Thaw overcome their issues: "Constantly going along with the moods and the madness was detrimental to my partners, and it is only when you learn that there is unacceptable behaviour that you should not accept, that those people have to pull themselves together."...
- 3/17/2011
- WENN
Sheila Hancock has opened up about her attraction to "tempestuous" men. The actress has been married twice, to TV and theatre actor Alec Ross and Inspector Morse star John Thaw. Both died of oesophaegal cancer and were heavy drinkers. In an interview with In Confidence for Sky Arts, she said: "There's no doubt that the men in my life had a volatility that came from drinking very often, and I must be drawn to that, otherwise why would I continuously have done it? So there is a part of me that likes the drama of that. "It is well known that people who are involved with people who have addictive problems have a problem (more)...
- 3/17/2011
- by By Kate Goodacre
- Digital Spy
"The key for us is to help them understand what the tools are and then for them to adopt and adapt them for their own purposes," Alec Ross, Hillary Clinton’s senior advisor for innovation, tells us.
Now that the euphoria of revolution is waning in Egypt, the hard work has begun to figure out what comes next. Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the U.S. is setting aside $150 million to help Egypt with that process. Now Alec Ross, Clinton’s senior advisor for innovation, tells Fast Company that a portion of that money will probably go toward helping Egyptians learn about and use digital tools to facilitate the process of transition.
In the coming months, Ross says, the State Department will likely devote some of the $150 million to helping Egyptian organizations and individuals learn about digital tools and practices they can use to help their country move through the transition.
Now that the euphoria of revolution is waning in Egypt, the hard work has begun to figure out what comes next. Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the U.S. is setting aside $150 million to help Egypt with that process. Now Alec Ross, Clinton’s senior advisor for innovation, tells Fast Company that a portion of that money will probably go toward helping Egyptians learn about and use digital tools to facilitate the process of transition.
In the coming months, Ross says, the State Department will likely devote some of the $150 million to helping Egyptian organizations and individuals learn about digital tools and practices they can use to help their country move through the transition.
- 2/23/2011
- by E.B. Boyd
- Fast Company
Foggy Bottom is looking for organizations interested in countering censorship and supporting civil society oversees. WikiLeaks may, or may not, be invited to apply.
The State Department might not be very happy about WikiLeaks (and its publication of hundreds of thousands of confidential diplomatic communications), but that’s not making it put the brakes on its quest to foster Internet freedom around the world. Foggy Bottom has just asked to hear from organizations that are interested in receiving government funds to “foster freedom of expression and the free flow of information on the Internet and other connection technologies.”
The agency has $30 million to spend on such programs and is planning on making grants to the tune of $500,000 to $8 million. The “Request for Statements of Interest” is specifically looking for projects and services that counter censorship and enable Internet users to get around firewalls and filters in "acutely hostile Internet environments...
The State Department might not be very happy about WikiLeaks (and its publication of hundreds of thousands of confidential diplomatic communications), but that’s not making it put the brakes on its quest to foster Internet freedom around the world. Foggy Bottom has just asked to hear from organizations that are interested in receiving government funds to “foster freedom of expression and the free flow of information on the Internet and other connection technologies.”
The agency has $30 million to spend on such programs and is planning on making grants to the tune of $500,000 to $8 million. The “Request for Statements of Interest” is specifically looking for projects and services that counter censorship and enable Internet users to get around firewalls and filters in "acutely hostile Internet environments...
- 1/5/2011
- by E.B. Boyd
- Fast Company
Hillary Clinton’s Civil Society 2.0 initiative is bringing tech experts to Chile to help grassroots organizations learn how to use the Web, cell phones, and social media to promote democracy and create economic opportunity.
With all the online tools available these days, and the ease with which developers can create new apps and mashups, grassroots organizations trying to solve social and economic problems around the world can do a lot with a little. But what they often lack is knowledge and expertise. The State Department thinks it can help. As part of an ongoing effort to pair up technologists with civil society groups around the world, the State Department is hosting a “TechCamp” in Santiago, Chile, on Saturday.
The TechCamp, which is being produced for the State Department by the New York-based Personal Democracy Forum, will show representatives of non-governmental organizations from around Latin America how new tools are helping promote democracy,...
With all the online tools available these days, and the ease with which developers can create new apps and mashups, grassroots organizations trying to solve social and economic problems around the world can do a lot with a little. But what they often lack is knowledge and expertise. The State Department thinks it can help. As part of an ongoing effort to pair up technologists with civil society groups around the world, the State Department is hosting a “TechCamp” in Santiago, Chile, on Saturday.
The TechCamp, which is being produced for the State Department by the New York-based Personal Democracy Forum, will show representatives of non-governmental organizations from around Latin America how new tools are helping promote democracy,...
- 11/19/2010
- by E.B. Boyd
- Fast Company
The youngest ever member of the Policy Planning staff showed the State Department how to use technology for diplomacy. Now Cohen's going to see if some of the thorniest foreign policy issues can be tackled from the private sector.
Jared Cohen joined Google last week as the director of its newly created Google Ideas “think/do tank”—an entity whose objective is to dream up and try out ideas that address the challenges of counterterrorism, counterradicalism, and nonproliferation, as well as innovations for development and citizen empowerment. He has also landed a side gig as an adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, focusing on innovation, technology, and statecraft.
Google has now hired Cohen to set up Google Ideas, which will look for innovative approaches to some of the stickiest international issues of the day. Out of his New York office, Cohen will, he told Foreign Policy, seek to...
Jared Cohen joined Google last week as the director of its newly created Google Ideas “think/do tank”—an entity whose objective is to dream up and try out ideas that address the challenges of counterterrorism, counterradicalism, and nonproliferation, as well as innovations for development and citizen empowerment. He has also landed a side gig as an adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, focusing on innovation, technology, and statecraft.
Google has now hired Cohen to set up Google Ideas, which will look for innovative approaches to some of the stickiest international issues of the day. Out of his New York office, Cohen will, he told Foreign Policy, seek to...
- 10/18/2010
- by E.B. Boyd
- Fast Company
New York -- The political state of affairs in Iran and the role of digital media in the organization of protests in the country was the center of attention at the Personal Democracy Forum conference on Tuesday.
Randi Zuckerberg, marketing manager at Facebook, expressed concern over the recent decline in usage of the networking site in Iran. "Our data has shown that our usage has dropped by 50%, which tells us that people are having trouble accessing the site," she said, hinting at a possible government crackdown. "It's disappointing, because now more than ever, they need this source to communicate with one another and share their opinions with the world."
Zuckerberg also discussed how politicians and political junkies worldwide have been using Facebook, including Mir-Hossein Moussavi, whose page has grown to over 100,000 fans since the elections as individuals around the world show their support for the would-be president. "The small things...
Randi Zuckerberg, marketing manager at Facebook, expressed concern over the recent decline in usage of the networking site in Iran. "Our data has shown that our usage has dropped by 50%, which tells us that people are having trouble accessing the site," she said, hinting at a possible government crackdown. "It's disappointing, because now more than ever, they need this source to communicate with one another and share their opinions with the world."
Zuckerberg also discussed how politicians and political junkies worldwide have been using Facebook, including Mir-Hossein Moussavi, whose page has grown to over 100,000 fans since the elections as individuals around the world show their support for the would-be president. "The small things...
- 6/30/2009
- by By Tina Yazdani
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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