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Alexa Clay,
Ashoka's Changemakers
What do pirates, terrorists, computer hackers, and inner city gangs have in common with Silicon Vall...
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What do pirates, terrorists, computer hackers, and inner city gangs have in common with Silicon Valley? Innovation.
In this talk, you’ll be exposed to emerging forms of underground innovation happening in the informal and black market economies. The “deviant entrepreneurs” that make up the black market are not mere threats to our social and economic stability, but also present us with real best practices that can be applied to business thinking.
Global / International Issues Black Market, Social Innovation
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Katy McKegney,
Blue State Digital
In 2010 Brazil elected their first female president, Dilma Rousseff. Not only was she the first fema...
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In 2010 Brazil elected their first female president, Dilma Rousseff. Not only was she the first female to be elected, she was also unique in being the first candidate in Brazil to connect with millions of voters online to solidify public opinion. While many emerging markets, South America in particular, love social media, their electorate had never participated in elections through an online medium. The session will explore the future of digital in Brazil (and emerging markets) that have thus far embraced the evolution of new media, mostly by embracing it via traditional media channels. We will look at how, by leveraging diverse social media channels, Dilma’s team was able to introduce and humanize her in a way never before seen by the Brazilian people.
Global / International Issues Emerging Markets , new media, Online Organizing
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Greg Hochmuth,
Greg Hochmuth
What is money anyway? It’s an agreement. Email and HTTP are just agreements too, so why can’t we...
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What is money anyway? It’s an agreement. Email and HTTP are just agreements too, so why can’t we invent a new money & value system that’s as borderless as the Internet?
While central banks are playing IOU with each other and stock markets are offering free roller coaster rides, this panel will start with a crash course on the origin and definition of money. We then explore the vast potential, historical lessons and new questions that come with inventing a new currency made for & made by an Internet-based society.
(NOTE for panel reviewers: I’m still in the process of confirming all the relevant speakers for this sessions. I need another few weeks but the line-up will be strong & awesome for this topic. I am convinced that this is a critical new area of interest in the coming year and it’d be great to mark SXSW as an epicenter for its discussions & spreading thereafter. I'm also still looking for a 4th [female] panelist within the academic/economist community)
Global / International Issues currencies, money, society
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Kim Morrison,
Blue Jeans Network
Companies like Facebook are teaming up with Skype to provide video for their users. Google just rele...
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Companies like Facebook are teaming up with Skype to provide video for their users. Google just released “hangout,” a group video chat service, as part of Google+. Blue Jeans Network just released a service that allows businesses and consumers to meet over video regardless of which video service or technology (and regardless of which device) they are using.
Why is there so much video news? Why is video becoming the “new thing?” It’s because the market is finally ripe for video.
Historically, video and video conferencing has been complicated, incompatible and expensive - especially when compared to audio which is easy, interoperable, and affordable. For example, imagine if your audio conferences only supported iPhones, and you had to worry about whether the people you wanted to meet with had or could get access to an iPhone. It sounds preposterous, but that’s how video has been.
People want video to be simple, easy to use and affordable. And now that’s exactly what businesses and consumers are able to get.
In this session, Blue Jeans Network CEO and co-Founder, Krish Ramakrishnan, will be joined by executives from key companies in the space to discuss the rise and demand of video and what this means for the future of communications.
Global / International Issues Technology, Video Calling, Video-Chat
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Chris Bronk,
Rice University
A year ago one could have had an honest argument about whether the Internet was increasing the power...
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A year ago one could have had an honest argument about whether the Internet was increasing the power of the oppressor or the oppressed. Events in Tunis, Cairo, Daraa, Tehran, Moscow, and Beijing have shown that it can benefit both and that the effect of digital technology on power will be complex and contradictory. What are we to make of freelance hacker orgs, transparency activists and covert cyber war? In the annals of citizen empowerment and institutional vulnerability, democracy and anarchy share an interesting paired history, we intend to ask how the global system may handle this latest disequilibrium.
Global / International Issues International Relations, Internet Politics
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Rebecca Otis,
LocalizeAustin
From Google Places to Groupon Now! to the Whole Foods 'Locally-Grown' initiative, big companies are ...
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From Google Places to Groupon Now! to the Whole Foods 'Locally-Grown' initiative, big companies are getting personal in local markets. This panel explores why tapping into local communities (both online and offline) is critical, even for global giants, and how users are making decisions because of this shift.
Global / International Issues community, local, social business
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Loida Garcia-Febo,
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
Librarians are leading a technological revolution in remote areas in Cuzco and in the Amazonian jung...
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Librarians are leading a technological revolution in remote areas in Cuzco and in the Amazonian jungle in Peru. Working with rural community leaders, nuns and local non-governmental organizations, librarians are bringing the Internet for the first time ever to a distant village in the Amazons. Partnering with cultural centers in Cuzco, librarians are teaching the unlimited possibilities of accessing information on the Internet to natives. This panel will present librarians' accounts of how the Internet is reaching indigenous populations in Peru, and will delve into what needs to happen to bring information about topics such as health and education to communities located in the deepest areas of the Amazon rain forest.
Global / International Issues Access to Information, latin america, libraries
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Renee Weber,
The Marketing Store
This session will reveal the first-ever findings of a global kids study on childhood, and how we are...
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This session will reveal the first-ever findings of a global kids study on childhood, and how we are re-defining it for the modern age.
Global / International Issues children, digital insights, research study
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Mahad Ibrahim,
Gobee Group, LLC.
The lives of the HIV infected are dependent on access to antiretroviral treatment. Funding for HIV/...
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The lives of the HIV infected are dependent on access to antiretroviral treatment. Funding for HIV/AIDS treatment has stagnated after many years of robust growth. A persistent gap exists between the money needed to provide universal treatment and what is available for treatment programs. Can we do more with less through the use of smarter data to optimize treatment programs?
Global / International Issues Global Health, HIV/AIDS, open data
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Scotty Iseri,
Klick Communications
Beautiful beaches, backwards seasons and kangaroos aren't all Australia has to offer. Many business...
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Beautiful beaches, backwards seasons and kangaroos aren't all Australia has to offer. Many businesses and startups are finding Australia - now nicknamed ‘Silicon Beach’ - the perfect place to test their product. This panel is no tourism pamphlet. Panelists will give an overview of Australia's diverse but small population that is highly connected, and full of early adopters, as well as provide advice on setting up Down Under, and scaling your business to the international market. Many high tech companies such as Samsung are using Aussies to test our their new products, but Australia is the perfect test market for anyone, from the bedroom app-maker, to the corporate behemoth. With only 0.3% of the world’s population but 11% of the social media audience, Australia is the perfect place to test your product’s mettle.
Global / International Issues Australia, International business, start up
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Meghan Lockhart,
Atomic PR
Story-telling is a process for healing. We hold in our hands digital technologies that will build ...
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Story-telling is a process for healing. We hold in our hands digital technologies that will build a new world, a world of creativity & community, individual expression & shared visions. There has been a global effort, spearheaded by artists and technologists, to empower human rights victims to become artisans, creators, and heroes, and to celebrate their spirit, talents and traditions – of giving them a stronger voice for their future. A worldwide network of story-tellers have found voice and strength through multimedia collaboration. Multimedia creation is about giving people the power to make the world of technology, data, expression, information and art serve their lives and the larger world. It allows for a massively communal creativity, using the power of the global net to capture the common threads, the zeitgeist of the entire planet, and make content available for creative synthesis and innovation. This is a use case about global digital empowerment in the battle for human rights.
Global / International Issues human rights, multimedia, social activism
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Yasser Ansari,
Networked Organisms
For the first time in history, the majority of people worldwide are living in cities. What does this...
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For the first time in history, the majority of people worldwide are living in cities. What does this mean for ecosystems across the planet and how does this change the way we experience the natural world? According to E.O. Wilson's biophilia hypothesis, humans have an instinctive bond with other living things, but as rapid urbanization continues, the nature near us disappears. How can we develop new ways to reconnect with nature and what roles do technology and digital media play in this effort? With backgrounds in the hard sciences, technology development and environmental activism, the panelists will share their experiences tackling these issues on the front lines of New York City. From the building of a popular city-wide festival for celebrating biodiversity to the launching of an award-winning mobile platform for citizen science, this panel will be of interest to urbanophiles, technologists, strategists, policy makers, and anyone else concerned about nature deficit disorder.
Global / International Issues Mobile Technology, Social movements, Urban Ecology
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Kuhio Vogeler, Ph.D.,
Maoli Matrix
"‘Ike" means knowledge or insight and in Hawai`i this insight is occurring in amazing wa...
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"‘Ike" means knowledge or insight and in Hawai`i this insight is occurring in amazing ways integrating new technologies and centuries-old Hawaiian traditions.
As the facts of the Hawaiian Kingdomʻs illegal occupation are revealed, many activists, academics and legal bodies in Hawai‘i and the world over are now contending Hawai`i has never legally been part of the United States. As they use the internet and media in ground-breaking ways to tell the world, Hawaiian culture is also re-asserting itself via websites sharing information on hula, political independence, taro farming and other important indigenous issues.
This panel will discuss media collaboration and information dissemination regarding Hawai`iʻs future. It will address cultural and technological issues that impact governance within this so-called 50th US state. Join us as we reveal how this blend of new and traditional technologies are leading to greater independence and rapidly changing not only Hawai`i, but the entire world.
Global / International Issues Culture Change, Politics, social change
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Raina Kumra,
Broadcasting Board of Governors
The sister cities program was set up as something for trade relations but these days, few understand...
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The sister cities program was set up as something for trade relations but these days, few understand its relevance. We're a group of government and private sector innovators who are making this program work for today's world.
Global / International Issues creative collaboration, Tech Activism, urban play
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Larisa Mann,
UC Berkeley Law School/ Surya Dub
As technology converges on music-making, it also links music scenes
from Rio to Bogota, Sierra Leone...
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As technology converges on music-making, it also links music scenes
from Rio to Bogota, Sierra Leone to San Francisco, Toronto to
Kingston. Hybrid scenes in international cities have produced some of
the most exciting music, from multilingual hip-hop to Jungle/DNB to
Moombahton. The music’s sources are local communities concerned about
cultural survival in global music markets, and individual artists
struggling in the global music industry. While immigrants, locals and
indigenous people mix up sounds, parties thrive, profit is
occasionally made –at home, by middlemen, or far away. This panel of
international artists, facilitators of international musical
collaboration, and legal scholars/lawyers will discuss challenges for
creative industries: How to forge creative relationships that are
sustainable on all sides? How can people best collaborate across
sometimes-vast social, economic and cultural distances while
preserving what makes them tick? When is foreign money a poison pill,
or a shot in the arm? What is the role of technology and of law, both
of which can restrict or allow people to connect, communicate, and
consume across vast distances?
Global / International Issues International collaboration, law and technology, music business
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TMS Ruge,
Project Diaspora
This panel provides a rare glimpse into the multitude of ways African women are applying technology ...
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This panel provides a rare glimpse into the multitude of ways African women are applying technology to advance Africa’s development. The panel aims to dispel the myths about African women as breeders and victims -- incapable of participating in their own continent’s development, by: (1) showcasing contributions they are making in the technology field – through entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and community leadership; and (2) providing insights into how they are using technology to raise awareness about, mobilize campaigns against and address human rights violations.
The panel will specifically explore how African women are using technology to make an impact through:
- Digital advocacy to protect people’s rights
- Social media to help grassroots organizations engage new supporters worldwide
- Mobile advertising to enable small businesses to access new markets
- Internet connectivity to integrate the often unheard community voices into the global conversation on development
Throughout the discussion, panelists will provide anecdotes on how the resulting increased access to information, is altering the role of women in African society.
Global / International Issues africa, Technology, women
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Fumi Yamazaki,
Google
During SXSW2010, Japan was hit by a big earthquake, and various activities including "SXSW For ...
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During SXSW2010, Japan was hit by a big earthquake, and various activities including "SXSW For Japan" and "SXSW Cares" were initiated. There were various crisis response efforts after it, which we would like to share with you.
Global / International Issues crisis-response, hackers, japan
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Elisabeth Hoelzl,
TAXIFISCH
Living and working in todays’ world gives us a lot of opportunities. We cultivate friendships and ...
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Living and working in todays’ world gives us a lot of opportunities. We cultivate friendships and establish business connections via the internet. Being a native to English almost everybody seems to speak your language. But looking at the people who have access to the internet, barely 28% actually speak English at home.
As web developers based in Germany the question of language is one we discuss regularly. Whatever we do – designing a new product, engaging in twitter, building a new website – language matters.
It is intriguing to settle for English as the most popular language around. This raises several new questions:
Will my clients or coworkers at home still understand what I am trying to tell them? How do they perceive me?
Apart from the obvious, do people who speak English really speak the same language? What do you know about their cultural background, their social reality, their everyday life?
Let’s discover some fascinating insights and develop some new ideas.
Global / International Issues communication, Global Community, languages
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Kim Williams,
DDB Worldwide
The expansion of digital technologies and their accessibility has increased the generational divide ...
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The expansion of digital technologies and their accessibility has increased the generational divide in their specific usage. From kids to grandparents, everyone seems to be using facets of digital communication in their everyday lives and it's becoming challenging for companies and individuals to keep pace with this rapid evolution. Let's discuss some of the important trends, concerns and how best to deal with them, moving forward.
Global / International Issues children, emerging trends, Privacy
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Adam Black,
KeyWifi LLC
Few SXSW attendees have lived in a world without Internet access for more than a few days. However, ...
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Few SXSW attendees have lived in a world without Internet access for more than a few days. However, there is such a world, it's commonplace and exists within a mile or so of this very conference center, and elsewhere for many millions, if not the vast majority on this planet.
The biggest challenge the world has in this day and age is how we collectively create a planet that has economic, environmental and political stability and manifest this future quickly enough to avoid major calamities brought on by continued resource depletion and environmental challenges that threaten us. Thankfully, we may have a few solutions such as the Internet and it's millions of tools, platforms and communities that are assisting us in this common mission.
The collective mind that is being formed through Internet use promises many educational, trade and health benefits to everyone; but it has little global value unless everyone everywhere gets connected, if not it will merely be a polarizer. The idea that big corporations will wire up Africa or Sth America, and do so cheaply enough, seems like a very expensive investment option with little R.O.I. However, through peer-to-peer platforms created by the Internet itself, connecting the world is not only achievable at low cost, but is being implemented as we speak.
My presentation shows how peer-to-peer systems are engaging millions across the world to solve problems for themselves, at low cost and renew the value of community.
Global / International Issues Digital Divide, economic development, sharing
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Kristen Nicole,
Appolicious
Panelists will discuss how women of African descent, and people across the African continent and Dia...
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Panelists will discuss how women of African descent, and people across the African continent and Diaspora, in general, use big data to challenge under-representation in the art world and mis-representation in popular culture, creating innovative art that reflects their own perspectives along with digital networks to unite and empower people of African descent globally. Big data processing is essential when it comes to the creation of a comprehensive genome and recommendation system—the better the processing behind our shared global data, the better each network. Panelists will also address how efficient data processing helps creatives forge artistic collaborations, earn money from their art, and raise capital and awareness for projects that empower their transnational communities.
Global / International Issues African diaspora, art, Big Data
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David Rudick,
Indeed.com
Companies strive to be the world leader in what they do. But even with a great product or service ho...
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Companies strive to be the world leader in what they do. But even with a great product or service how do you make your offering available to the majority of the world's online users without a physical presence in each market? And if you do manage to get that part down then how do you monetize?
Global / International Issues global, International, product launch
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Sherry Bitting,
Parlour Media LLC
The African Diaspora is vast and wide, and with that comes a variety of cultures separated by nation...
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The African Diaspora is vast and wide, and with that comes a variety of cultures separated by national boundaries but connected by the spirit and essence of Africa. For years, these cultures have lived separately with little understanding or connection to the lifestyles of others who share similar ideals, concerns or experiences abroad. The Internet has played a large role in connecting these cultures--through music, art, lifestyle and political interests. Over the past few years, there has been an emerging number of female bloggers of color who have become leading voices in their own communities and representations of their cultures to others all over the world. Parlour Media, owner of ParlourMagazine.com will host an open discussion featuring four leading female bloggers of color from three of the world's leading countries to discuss lifestyle and digital trends from their local communities and the benefits that they have gained by connecting with similar women abroad. In addition, panelists will discuss the tools that they have used to build audiences and the strategies that they have found most effective in developing their sites.
For global brands that wish to target this segment, this panel will offer a glimpse into the minds and lifestyles of this powerful group who serve as global voices of their communities. It will also offer an opportunity to better understand digital trends and tools that are driving online growth.
Global / International Issues African diaspora, female bloggers, global trends
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Benny Lewis,
Fluent in 3 months
Are you not naturally talented enough to learn a foreign language? Too old, or think not being able...
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Are you not naturally talented enough to learn a foreign language? Too old, or think not being able to live abroad will stop you? Fellow native English speaker Benny Lewis from Ireland disagrees.
At age 21, after doing miserably in languages in school and only able to speak English, Benny embarked on a world trip lasting almost a decade to make local friends only through their languages.
He now speaks over a dozen languages (most of them very fluently), as well as American Sign Language. In this talk he shares his greatest language hacks to make sure that in just a few months you too can learn to speak any language in the world, without buying flights, expensive courses or having your genes re-spliced!
Benny runs one of the Internet's most popular language learning websites at fluentin3months.com and will be happy to share his unconventional yet extremely effective tips if you vote for his SxSW talk! As a bonus, you get to hear the entire talk in a lovely Irish accent! ;)
Global / International Issues Global Community, languages, travel
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Shauna Dillavou,
Plessas Experts Network, Inc.
Mexico’s Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) use various types of social media to influence and ...
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Mexico’s Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) use various types of social media to influence and manipulate public opinion. At the most basic level, DTOs regularly post videos to Youtube of interrogations, beheadings and dismemberments of rival gang members, to intimidate other groups and the public. Myspace is another soft influence tool; profiles abound that glorify the narco-life, including photos of fast cars, blinged-out weapons, and scantily-clad women. Narco-ballads, increasingly banned on Mexican airwaves, are also available on Myspace. Blog del Narco and parrot sites provide direct interaction between DTOs and the public. These sites anonymously post images of DTO communications hung on freeway overpasses or pinned to victims’ bodies, delivering threats to rival gangs, politicians, and police, and seeking the public’s favor. Citizens once used Twitter to warn of violence along routes to work and school. Now, DTOs pose as concerned citizens and to encourage the online citizen watch to help them locate rival gangs and law enforcement. DTOs use smart-phone applications to communicate, and to navigate the border region without law enforcement detection.
Global / International Issues Criminal Organizations, Mexico, socia media
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Luis von Ahn,
Carnegie Mellon University and Duolingo
Language differences remain a barrier for the global sharing of knowledge, and computers cannot proc...
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Language differences remain a barrier for the global sharing of knowledge, and computers cannot process human language accurately.
This session will describe an ambitious project called Duolingo, which aims to coordinate 100 million people to translate the Web into every major language for free.
Global / International Issues crowdsourcing, Duolingo, language
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Katherine Miller,
Hattaway Communicatons
Around the world, young people are the biggest consumers of technology. They are also the most vulne...
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Around the world, young people are the biggest consumers of technology. They are also the most vulnerable to long-term health problems related to risk-taking behaviors (tobacco, unsafe sex, unplanned pregnancies, violence, etc.). The growth of social media, mobile telecommunications and cloud-based technology creates powerful new opportunities for organizations and commercial agencies who seek to reach youth with health prevention messaging. Adolescents’ jobs are to take risks, be invincible, rule the world. So, what will it take to engage youth, and counter their developmentally appropriate adolescent behavior?
Panelists will discuss how technology is transforming health care,including looking at youth-focused outreach projects from Newark to Nairobi. We will explore how to social and mobile media are being used to educate, inform and change improve healthy behaviors among teens and young adults. Discussion will revolve around: measurement, effectiveness, ranking, and ultimately, how to choose the right medium and right message to reach the right health prevention goals at right moment.
Global / International Issues Health , marketing, mobile
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Nicholas Skytland,
NASA
Want to change the world? Then get a license to RHoK! Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global...
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Want to change the world? Then get a license to RHoK! Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global initiative to create practical open source solutions to humanity's toughest challenges. Organized by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, HP, NASA and the World Bank, RhoK brings together thousands of the best and brightest developers from around the world - like YOU - to participate in fast–paced and competitive marathon coding events resulting in real applications that are making an impact on humanity. The RHoK community has grown rapidly over the past 2 years, with 3000 participants from 43 cities who have worked on 214 distinct solutions. This talk will bring together "RHoKstars" to provide an overview of the initiative, discuss some of the solutions developed, describe how the SxSW community can contribute to the effort and most importantly, brainstorm about what is next. …and if they let us, we'll be playing rock music and lighting off fireworks!
Global / International Issues development, Hacking, humanity
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Vijay Renganathan,
Institute of International Education
Sixty years before Zuckerberg, Senator J. William Fulbright had a revolutionary idea: connect people...
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Sixty years before Zuckerberg, Senator J. William Fulbright had a revolutionary idea: connect people around the world to share ideas. Born out of WWII, his vision was “public diplomacy”: exchange regular citizens of various countries to interact, share knowledge, become friends, and stay connected for life.
In the social media era, are international exchange programs like Fulbright still relevant for public diplomacy? Can social networks create the same intercultural experiences online, serving more people at lower cost? Early Fulbrighters traveled on ships and stayed in touch by letter; now they fly and friend on Facebook. Have these programs outlived their usefulness when we can instantly Skype with anyone anywhere?
The exploding number of Fulbright applications since 2001 says “no”. This panel will explore why, discussing the challenges and opportunities public diplomacy programs face in the digital age, and how participants are putting the internet at the center of their projects.
Global / International Issues Fulbright, internationalization, social communities
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Julie Shussler,
Burson-Marsteller
In 1997, the Lance Armstrong Foundation was created by the cancer survivor and champion cyclist to s...
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In 1997, the Lance Armstrong Foundation was created by the cancer survivor and champion cyclist to serve people affected by cancer. Now known publicly by its powerful brand – LIVESTRONG – the organization is a leader in the global movement on behalf of 28 million people around the world living with cancer.
LIVESTRONG's CEO, Doug Ulman, is one of the most followed CEO's on Twitter with more than 1 million followers. Evolving side-by-side with social media, a large part of the success and following of LIVESTRONG comes from the nonprofit’s utilization of online networking over the years. In 2009 at the BlogWorld Conference the hashtag #BeatCancer was used to set a Guinness World Record with over 209,000 mentions in 24-hours.
Cancer is the world’s number one killer globally. Ulman and LIVESTRONG continue to utilize channels of communication that will help spread the LIVESTRONG message on a worldwide scale. Proving itself a useful weapon, viral is key in the fight against the disease.
Global / International Issues advocacy, cancer, LIVESTRONG
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