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• Listening to Global Voices

  Jocelyn Ling 12:36 am on August 20, 2010 | 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: collaboration (8), Global Voices (3), innovation (8), journalism (5), TED, women (5), world (12)

  I recently attended a round­table hosted by the Asia Pacific Foun­da­tion of Canada for a 25@25 dis­cus­sion. The dis­cus­sion emerged from the 25@25 video com­pe­ti­tion as a forum for par­tic­i­pants and part­ners to share their expe­ri­ences and exam­ine future ways to engage youth in pro­mot­ing Canada-Asia relations.

  The video com­pe­ti­tion was a huge suc­cess and what I thought to be a really cre­ative way of engag­ing youth to think about issues about Canada-relations. The issues that came out of the con­test, har­ness the col­lec­tive capa­bil­ity and genius that would spur growth and research direc­tion of the foun­da­tion. Some of the themes that emerged included: Peo­ple as a resource, rep­re­sen­ta­tion in the media, self-identity and green tech­nol­ogy exchanges.

  “Capa­bil­i­ties to develop new kinds of rela­tion­ships, sense impor­tant devel­op­ments, add value and turn nascent net­worked knowl­edge into com­pelling value are becom­ing the bread and but­ter of wealth cre­ation and success.”

  - Wiki­nomics, Don Tapscott

  On a another level, it was a great learn­ing oppor­tu­nity for me to step into an area and net­work of which I was not really con­nected to, all because I stepped out of my net­work cir­cle. It reminded me a great TED video by Ethan Zuck­er­man on Lis­ten­ing to Global Voices. He spoke about how even though the web con­nects the whole world, we really end up being stuck in our own web bub­ble rather than lis­ten­ing to what the world has to share.

  So in the spirit of col­lab­o­ra­tion, here are my favourite sites on lis­ten­ing to global voices:

  1) OpenIDEO: An online plat­form where peo­ple col­lab­o­rate to design bet­ter for social good. It’s a won­der­ful dynamic resource on tack­ling global resources and I’m going to sub­mit a solu­tion to one of their prob­lems soon!

  2) World Pulse: A global net­work that broad­casts and unites women’s voices from all over to cre­ate a pow­er­ful voice for change. What I love about this is not only is it a print and web mag­a­zine but it’s also an inter­ac­tive com­mu­nity newswire, PulseWire, where women can col­lab­o­rate and con­nect to solve global problems.

  3) Global Voices: An inter­na­tional com­mu­nity of blog­gers who report on dif­fer­ent global issues with top­ics rang­ing from arts to pol­i­tics. It’s an amaz­ing resource and my fav fea­ture is the dif­fer­ent lan­guages that you can read the web­site in. (I occa­sion­ally flip the switch over to Indone­sian, just cause! And it’s so inter­est­ing to read the same arti­cle both in Eng­lish and in another language!)

  4) paper.li: This is a lit­tle dif­fer­ent than the above three plat­forms as it really is more a snap­shot of the things/links that you tweet about, but I love the cre­ative for­mat and I find it super inter­est­ing the way it picks up on the dif­fer­ent things I’m browse through online. Below is a snap­shot of what it looks like and I thought I’ll share this one just for fun!

  

  So..what global voices have you been lis­ten­ing to?

   

• Of Talks: Terry, Ted and Tedx

  Jocelyn Ling 8:18 pm on September 17, 2009 | 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: change (17), impact (17), inspiration (12), motivation (9), presentation (3), TED, ubc (2), Vancouver (2)

  Before June 2006, very few have heard of Ted, much less Ted­Con­fer­ences, TedTalks and Ted­Fel­lows. That all changed when TED decided to release their Talks online, with this mission:

  

  “We believe pas­sion­ately in the power of ideas to change atti­tudes, lives and ulti­mately, the world. So we’re build­ing here a clear­ing house that offers free knowl­edge and inspi­ra­tion from the world’s most inspired thinkers, and also a com­mu­nity of curi­ous souls to engage with ideas and each other.” http://www.ted.com

  Start­ing out in 1984 as a con­fer­ence bring­ing experts from the world of Tech­nol­ogy, Enter­tain­ment and Design, it has since evolved into some­thing more. Ideas and con­cepts that res­onate. Shared. Spo­ken about. In the spirit of spread­ing ideas, TEDx has been cre­ated, enabling com­mu­ni­ties around the world to con­struct a TED-like con­fer­ence with sup­port from TED.

  Here at UBC, we have our very own TEDx Terry Project. The project launched last year and was received with tremen­dous suc­cess. This Octo­ber 3rd would be the 2nd Terry round of talks and reg­is­tra­tion is now open!

  “Imag­ine UBC’s most fas­ci­nat­ing and engag­ing stu­dents com­ing together for a day, giv­ing ‘the talk of their lives,’ shar­ing their ideas and dis­cussing their visions for UBC and the world. Now imag­ine being there, with stu­dents, alumni, fac­ulty, admin­is­tra­tion, and mem­bers of the gen­eral pub­lic watch­ing this unfold and par­tak­ing in the var­i­ous dis­cus­sions, and think of all the pos­si­bil­i­ties that this idea-share holds.” — http://www.terry.ubc.ca
  

  
  photo credit: abdal­lahh

  Reg­is­tra­tion is free and comes with a free lunch. It is cur­rently restricted to UBC stu­dents, staff and fac­ulty and some alumni. To reserve a ticket, click here, and to have a glimpse of what is in store for us, check out what hap­pened last year!

  I had the plea­sure of attend­ing Ter­ryTalks last year and it was a won­der­ful expe­ri­ence. UBC has some of the bright­est stu­dent minds in North Amer­ica and the ideas that were shared last year blew me away. I am def­i­nitely not miss­ing this year’s! Get your tick­ets now and see you there!