[extropy-chat] 2006 TED Prize Announces Winners

[Natasha Vita-More]

I'd like to collaborate with Robin Hanson and Ray Kurzweil and develop a 
Trans/Post-human Futures Society project for 2007.

Cheers!
Natasha


2006 TED Prize Winners Announced

Dr. Larry Brilliant, Jehane Noujaim and Cameron Sinclair Granted Wishes To 
Change the World

New York, October 12, 2005 Physician Larry Brilliant, documentary filmmaker 
Jehane Noujaim, and Architecture for Humanity founder Cameron Sinclair have 
been named recipients of the 2006 TED Prize, announced at a private event 
Tuesday night in New York City.

Now in its second year, the TED prize, an initiative of the legendary TED 
Conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design), grants its recipients one 
world changing wish which they present to attendees of the conference, a 
group of more than 800 catalysts for change, ranging from Fortune 500 
executives to dedicated non-profit professionals. This unique community 
then seeks to make the wish come true.

Brilliant, Noujaim and Sinclair will now have several months to formulate 
their wishes before unveiling them live at TED 2006 in Monterey, California 
on February 23. The winners receive $100,000 each to support fulfillment of 
the wish.

"We're proud to be honoring three such remarkable individuals," says Chris 
Anderson, Curator of the TED Conference. We believe they will inspire the 
TED Community and perhaps many others to play a role in nudging our world 
toward a better future.

About This Year's Winners

Dr. Larry Brilliant is an epidemiologist who helped manage the World Health 
Organization's highly successful campaign against smallpox in India. Dr. 
Brilliant is the cofounder of the Seva Foundation, a non-profit 
organization committed to building partnerships to respond to locally 
defined problems with culturally sustainable solutions. The organization is 
responsible for providing more than 2 million blind men and women with free 
eye operations. Dr. Brilliant is also an accomplished technology 
entrepreneur, having confounded The Well and a series of innovative tech 
companies.

Jehane Noujaim is an award-winning documentary filmmaker responsible for 
films that include Startup.com and Control Room, a groundbreaking 
documentary on the Arab news network Al Jazeera. Noujaim is the recipient 
of the Director's Guild of America and IDA Award, among others.

Cameron Sinclair is cofounder and executive director of Architecture for 
Humanity, a six year-old charitable organization seeking architectural 
solutions to humanitarian crises and providing design services to 
communities in need. Sinclair is working on a wide range of projects, 
including school building in India, issues of homelessness, tsunami 
reconstruction, developing mobile medical facilities to combat HIV/AIDS in 
Sub-Saharan Africa and rebuilding communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina.


<http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More
Cultural Strategist, Designer
Studies of the Future, University of Houston
President, <http://www.extropy.org/>Extropy Institute
Founder, <http://www.transhumanist.biz/>Transhumanist Arts & Culture

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.  Alvin Toffler
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