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Our day at TEDxNapoli at Palazzo Reale

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TED Prize winner & @StoryCorps founder Dave Isay believes people don't find their calling — they fight for it: https://t.co/Wz6TqQiwr5

— TED Prize (@TEDPrize) 11 May 2016

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Watch 2014 TED Prize Winner, Charmian Gooch, as she calls for increased transparency in business. Click above or find her talk here:

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Norwegian embassy about to deny VISA for Ugandan TEDPrize winner to come to Stockholm? Ugandan artist and TEDPrize winner Ruganzu Bruno from Kampala was invited 1 month back to come to Stockholm to collaborate with us on the Kids Hack Day Stockholm team. Our founder Carl Bärstad met up with Ruganzu at TEDActive in California together with this years TEDPrize winner Sugata Mitra. So the U.S. has given Ruganzu a VISA but not Norway? Amongst many of the exciting activities planned Ruganzu was to paint our lab, tell his story and interact with the kids we work with here. To inspire them to view the waste around them as a resource. Ruganzu himself is spearheading Kids Hack Day Kampala through his project Eco Art Uganda, turning waste into art and playgrounds for kids.  We are confused. How can a man that wants to spread so much joy in the world be denied a VISA from Norway but not from the U.S.?

It is deeply disturbing that a few people at the Norweigan embassy, handling the Swedish VISA applications, are making such arbitrary decisions about peoples lives and destinies. This is the second time Ruganzu is facing this destiny. Last year he was also invited to the annual TEDGlobal conference on a scholarship from the Gates Foundation, but was unable to go due to the exact same people at the Norwegian embassy. 

This ignorance has to stop! NOW! 

Ruganzu is an artist, not a political prisoner. If you find this story as upsetting as we, help set him free by sharing this on facebook and twitter today. Ruganzu will be at the embassy tomorrow at 9 am GMT+3 for a last chance to get his VISA before his flight takes off in the afternoon.  If you want the full story on this collaboration between Kids Hack Day Kampala and Kids Hack Day Stockholm it is available on the TED Blog here.

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City 2.0 website relaunch, highlighting stories through TEDxCity2.0

At TED 2012, the most recent TED Prize was announced, and given to an idea, rather than to a person: the City 2.0.

The $100,000 prize was divided into ten $10,000 grants, with the first five announced at TEDGlobal. Two went to TEDx communities in Pakistan, one to an event in Uganda. 

Five more grants are available, and anyone can nominate their project to win.

Going forward, the TEDx community will have a larger voice in the execution of the yearly TED Prize, including this year's. TEDxCity2.0 will be one day -- October 13th, 2012 -- when TEDx communities around the world can organize an event themed City 2.0 to highlight the amazing voices and stories making change in their local communities. 

These stories and ideas will shape what the City 2.0 is and will be going forward. 

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Dynamic pitch session during TEDx Workshop results in fifth City 2.0 Award

What do a zombie apocalypse, the spread of cholera, a burger box and toilets all have in common?

All of them were mentioned this morning during the City 2.0 pitch sessions, hosted as part of our

TEDx Workshop leading up to TED Global 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

There were four compelling projects proposed:

Photo: Bret Hartman

Daniel CerVentus, of TEDxKL, pitched the “While We Wait” project -- designed to make city dwellers’ “dead time” for public transportation, quite common in Kuala Lumpur, just a bit more fun and communal. Using choose your own adventure stories (like a zombie apocalypse flowchart) and conversation prompts, While We Wait gets people talking to one another. After all, why not slay boredom and build community in one fell swoop?

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Faisal Chohan, a Senior TED Fellow, pitched Saaf Pindi -- a mapping project with a mission of improving sanitation, and therefore preventing cholera, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Cholera is the second leading cause of death in South Asia, made particularly rampant by unsafe sanitation conditions. In fact, only 18% of Pakistanis have access to proper sewerage infrastructure. Chohan proposes using open mapping technology to track where un-treated waste is being dumped into rivers and canals near people’s homes. Subsequent stages will include mapping hospital reports on water borne diseases to keep citizens informed.

Photo: Bret Hartman

“Who can really deal with the ‘wicked problems’ that face cities?” asks Senior TED Fellow and TEDxTransmedia speaker Mitchell Joachim. “Urbaneers, that’s who.” Joachim and his team at New York-based ONE Lab proposed to create an “Urbaneer Manual,” chockfull of stories and guerilla best practices of how people are tackling issues as diverse as waste, communication, sanitation, and education—among others. Joachim ended his compelling summary with a familiar image: the Styrofoam burger box. It’s built for obsolescence, filling up our global landfills, but what creative solutions might an urbaneer come up with for making it useful to the city of the future?

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Finally, Suraj Sudkahar, of TEDxKibera in Nairobi, Kenya, pitched a low-cost tutoring program that could “revolutionize education” for the urban poor. Sudkahar reminded us that the TEDx spirit is not about how flashy an event can be, but how resourceful the people who attend are. In his own involvement in the TEDx Activator program, he’s seen the way that a dynamic partnership can make an educational experience come alive. By partnering with Umande Trust, a water and sanitation NGO, Sudkahar has been able to link learning to the much-needed community spaces and toilets that Umande Trust provides for local citizens. With a City 2.0 award, he hoped to take this work to the next level.

Clearly, all of these creative disruptions to everyday life in cities are deserving of further exploration and support. Only one of them could win the next $10,000 City 2.0 award, however.

We engaged people at the TEDx Workshop and those joining us on livestream around the world to vote, who selected Faisal Chohan as the second winner of the City 2.0 Award.

Stay tuned for more on this critical public health project and thanks to all of our inventive presenters for their bright ideas and enthusiastic presentations. We look forward to hearing how all of the projects develop.  

Written by Courtney Martin

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Sustainable City of the Future Wins 2012 TED Prize

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