Heather Blanchard: Meet the Digital Humanitarians
Heather Blanchard is a social entrepreneur, who works on the front lines of the online crisis crowd by connecting people, tools and resources via the virtual technology network she helped create, called CrisisCommons. Heather explores the growing role of the digital humanitarian community and how they connect to traditional response systems in preparing for, responding to […]
Akala: Hip-Hop & Shakespeare
MOBO award-winning hip hop artist ‘Akala’ is a Label owner and social entrepreneur who fuses rap/rock/electro-punk with fierce lyrical storytelling (think Wu-Tang Clan and Aphex Twin meets Rage Against The Machine). He demonstrates and explores the connections between Shakespeare and Hip-Hop, and the wider cultural debate around language and it’s power.
Dr. Brian Goldman: Doctor’s Make Mistakes
Every doctor makes mistakes. But, says physician Brian Goldman, medicine’s culture of denial (and shame) keeps Doctors from ever talking about those mistakes, or using them to learn and improve. Telling stories from his own long practice, he calls on Doctors to start talking about being wrong.
Clay Shirky: Defend our Freedom to Share or Why SOPA is a Bad Idea
What does a bill like SOPA mean to our shareable world? Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto, a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.
Pole Position
Sometimes I have the attention span of a gnat and sometimes it’s infinitely longer than my years. And more than once I’ve been sorely tempted to give up and throw in the towel. I didn’t. I put this down to discipline. The kind applied through commitment, hard work, patience and endurance. It’s taken all of […]
