by atmara | May 17, 2012 | TED Talks, Video
According to ted.com: “Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee has two powerful stories to tell — of her own life’s transformation, and of the untapped potential of girls around the world. Can we transform the world by unlocking the greatness of girls?”
“Liberia’s second civil war, 1999-2003, brought an unimaginable level of violence to a country still recovering from its first civil war (1989-96). And much of that violence was directed at women: Systematic rape and brutality used women’s bodies as fields for war.”
“Leymah Gbowee, who’d become a social worker during the first war, helped organize an interreligious coalition of Christian and Muslim women called the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace movement. Dressed in white, these thousands of women staged pray-ins and nonviolent protests demanding reconciliation and the resuscitation of high-level peace talks. The pressure pushed Charles Taylor into exile, and smoothed the path for the election of Africa’s first female head of state, Leymah’s fellow 2011 Nobel Peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.”
“Gbowee is the co-founder of the Women Peace and Security Network Africa (WIPSEN-Africa) to promote cross-national peace-building efforts.”
This is a powerful talk. I hope you find it inspiring.
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com:
“TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
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by atmara | May 14, 2012 | Art, Mandala Monday, Mandalas, Meditation, Video
This video shows the use of the focus of the mind for creating mandalas. According to YouTube Channel UniversalMediaman:
“Dagaz is an application that helps the Mindset user to train their meditation level through a new intuitive game experience. The application makes use of mandala shapes, generated by the user’s mind. Mandala shapes are symmetrical shapes used in many cultures and almost every religion. The shapes are used for different purposes, for example as a meditation tool, part of religious architecture, and even as a therapeutic tool for mentally disabled or mentally ill. Every mandala is created around a central point. Dagaz (which means ‘point’ in the ancient Futhark alphabet) uses that central point to help users train their meditation skills.”
“The Dagaz project has its purpose in different areas. Dagaz can be used for relaxation or as a fun gaming experience. But it can also be used for more serious training. Meditation also has positive effects on a wide range of conditions, such as hyperactivity disorders (ADHD), sleeping difficulties, depression and pain relief. Dagaz is a fun and intuitive way to learn to control your brain by creating aesthetic images. By meditating on a central point the user has the ability to generate different dimensions from this point and these dimensions carry you further into your meditation session. The more dimensions you create, the higher your score and your meditation skill.”
“Dagaz is the first step in the creation of a mind-based communication protocol. Future versions of Dagaz will have an added multiplayer mode, making it possible to create a worldwide neural network that will enable participants all over the world to generate mandalas together.”
“The first version of Dagaz lays the foundation for more advanced neural interaction on social platforms. Are you ready to start talking with your mind?”
* Design & Code by Universal Mediaman (Beer van Geer)
* Music by Olle (Björn Remmerswaal)
See website: http://www.dagazproject.com
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by atmara | May 10, 2012 | TED Talks, Video
According to ted.com: “Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open? Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can — and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new way to connect citizens to their governments — and their neighbors.”
“Jennifer Pahlka is the founder and executive director of Code for America, which works with talented web professionals and cities around the country to promote public service and reboot government. She spent eight years at CMP Media where she led the Game Group, responsible for GDC, Game Developer magazine, and Gamasutra.com; there she also launched the Independent Games Festival and served as executive director of the International Game Developers Association. Recently, she ran the Web 2.0 and Gov 2.0 events for TechWeb and co-chaired the successful Web 2.0 Expo. She is a graduate of Yale University and lives in Oakland, CA with her daughter and six chickens.”
Enjoy this innovative talk.
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com:
“TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
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