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So cool checking out what other social entrepreneurs are doing around the country at #sxgood #unfoundation #socialgoodbiz #yorkproject (at SXSW)
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So cool checking out what other social entrepreneurs are doing around the country at #sxgood #unfoundation #socialgoodbiz #yorkproject (at SXSW)
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The SXSW Innovation Social Good Awards
I’m starting to think that “innovation” and “social good” are actually one and the same. Case in point-- just a few of the 19 award winners:
Noninvasive Skin Cancer Detection Device, a faster, better, less expensive alternative to traditional biopsies (Winner: Sci-Fi No Longer)
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge (Winner: Meme of the Year)
Guide Dots, a free audio app that helps the visually impaired connect with the world around them (Winner: Transportation Advancements)
Project Daniel, providing some of the world’s first 3D-printed prosthetic limbs to people in South Sudan (Winner: Innovative 3-DIY)
Energy conservation + Supporting small farmers + Delivery app + Weed The strangest application of social responsibility we saw all week.
Karen Kocher is a recipient of the 2015 Dewey Winburne Community Service Award for her work as the creator and producer of Living Springs, a multi-platform, immersive, interactive exploration of Austin’s beloved Barton Springs. Kocher’s goal is for Austinites to see the Springs as “beyond just a recreational resource,” and Living Springs will explore the historical, social, spiritual, and scientific value they bring to the Austin community online, in an installation at the Barton Springs Education Center, and in curriculum for local classrooms. Learn more about the project and donate here.
You heard it first at SXSW:
What will exist in 10 years
Journalists
Snapchat
What won't
Nightly network news
AJ+, a news start-up within the Al Jazeera Media Network, is already living in that future. They create news & other content native to big social platforms like Tumblr, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram & Twitter—you won't find them on TV or a website.
But as I learned yesterday, platform isn't content isn't news. Are these new formats going to empower the audience, or is a Facebook comment as far as it will go? Are strides in diversity and representation enough for now?
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“IDEO.org focuses exclusively on developing countries. OpenIDEO is a collaborative space that brings in experts and non-profits in for an idea space that members of the public can contribute ideas to. The whole community is invited to get involved and we help connect ideas to sponsors. We’ve been lucky in that sponsors approach us rather than the other way around. We’re trying to convene conversations around the world’s most pressing problems.” Alaine Newland Communications Lead, OpenIDEO
“Content is not news. News is content.”
Dan Rather made this distinction during today’s session, “Breaking the News in the Age of Snapchat,” and Dan Pfeiffer, former Communications Director and Senior Advisor to President Obama, observed that there is often confusion or conflation of new platforms with new forms of journalism. I caught up with Pfeiffer after the panel to ask him if spaces like SXSW contribute to that confusion.
“I think there’s more space here to have that conversation. One of the challenges when we have this conversation in Washington is that a lot of the people having the conversation don’t understand new platforms.” (He said that anyone over 25 is “missing a lot of what’s happening.”) “Sometimes people say, ‘Snapchat’s been created! What’s that going to change about journalism?’ The better question is, 'How is journalism going to use Snapchat?’ or ‘How is journalism going to use Meerkat?’”
"News is what the people need to know that somebody--especially people in power--doesn’t want them to know.” --Dan Rather, at today’s featured session, “Breaking the News in the Age of Snapchat.” (Portrait of Dan courtesy of James at ImageThink, the coolest person I’ve met at SXSW! Thanks, James!)