TED Prize Winners
This year’s TED Prize Winners
1. Cameron Sinclair (Director Architecture for Humanity and Eternal Optimist).
- All problems are local, all solutions are local.
- Focus is on social responsible design.
- They have a staff of just three – shows the power of a website. Started with $700 and a website.
- They advocate for good design; they instigate; they implement.
- His role is a conduit between the design world and the humanitarian crisis.
- Open source model e.g. designs in the developing world licensed with a special Creative Commons license that allows it to be replicated anywhere for free.
- His mantra: Design like you give a damn
2) Jehane Noujaim (Filmmaker)
- Thinks that as the world becomes smaller it is really important to learn from each other/building bridges. The biggest challenge facing the world is understanding the other.
- How to make this a reality? The power of the image. Connecting people through film – getting independent voices out there. How do you give power to independent voices to tell their stories?
- Her wish: Global Day of Film – platform for independent films to get out there and have a global audience; bringing the world together through film
3) Dr. Larry Brilliant
- His TED wish is to build an early global warning system to protect against pandemics.
