http://news.linktv.org Link TV News Videos (Filtered by topics: TED (conference)) en-us Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:44:00 -0800 Copyright 2011 Link Media, Inc. http://news.linktv.org/videos/gorgeous-model-cameron-russell-slams-tyranny-of-image?start=0 Eye-popping model Cameron Russell takes to the TED stage to complain about ... images of models. "I won a genetic lottery" and "cashed in" on a cultural legacy that particularly values tall, slender, white models, notes the articulate, provocative Russell, who attacks the "power of image" to elevate the shallow and ignore the profound. When girls ask her how to become a model, and the first thing she wonders is: "Why?" Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:44:00 -0800 http://news.linktv.org/videos/gorgeous-model-cameron-russell-slams-tyranny-of-image Cameron Russell, Fashion, Photograph, Model, Vogue, Fashion design, TED (conference) Eye-popping model Cameron Russell takes to the TED stage to complain about ... images of models. "I won a genetic lottery" and "cashed in" on a cultural legacy that particularly values tall, slender, white models, notes the articulate, provocative Russell, who attacks the "power of image" to elevate the shallow and ignore the profound. Girls ask her how to become a model, and the first thing she wonders is: "Why?" http://news.linktv.org/videos/are-we-living-in-the-age-of-globalization-or-globaloney?start=0 It may seem that we're living in a borderless world where ideas, goods and people flow freely from nation to nation. We're not even close, says Pankaj Ghemawat. With great data (and an eye-opening survey), he argues there's a delta between perception and reality in a world that's maybe not so hyperconnected after all. Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:54:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/are-we-living-in-the-age-of-globalization-or-globaloney Globalization, Anti-globalization movement, Pankaj Ghemawat, Social media, Social movement, TED (conference) It may seem that we're living in a borderless world where ideas, goods and people flow freely from nation to nation. We're not even close, says Pankaj Ghemawat. With great data (and an eye-opening survey), he argues there's a delta between perception and reality in a world that's maybe not so hyperconnected after all. http://news.linktv.org/videos/dalia-mogahed-the-attitudes-that-sparked-the-arab-spring?start=0 Gallup pollster Dalia Mogahed shares surprising data on Egyptian people's attitudes and hopes before the Arab Spring, with a special focus on the role of women in sparking change. Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:08:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/dalia-mogahed-the-attitudes-that-sparked-the-arab-spring Arab Spring - duplicate, Egyptians, Dalia Mogahed, Egyptian Revolution, Politics of Egypt, Culture of Egypt, TED (conference) Gallup pollster Dalia Mogahed shares surprising data on Egyptian people's attitudes and hopes before the Arab Spring, with a special focus on the role of women in sparking change. http://news.linktv.org/videos/shereen-el-feki-epidemic-of-bad-laws-helps-spread-of-hiv?start=0 There is an epidemic of HIV, and with it an epidemic of bad laws -- laws that effectively criminalize being HIV positive. Shereen El-Feki gives a forceful argument that these laws are not only based in stigma, but are helping the disease spread. Thu, 24 May 2012 16:05:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/shereen-el-feki-epidemic-of-bad-laws-helps-spread-of-hiv Discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS, HIV, AIDS, HIV positive people, Law, HIV test, Sexually transmitted disease, Epidemic, Shereen El-Feki, Discrimination There is an epidemic of HIV, and with it an epidemic of bad laws -- laws that effectively criminalize being HIV positive. At the TEDxSummit in Doha, TED Fellow Shereen El-Feki gives a forceful argument that these laws are not only based in stigma, but are helping the disease spread. ---- http://news.linktv.org/videos/jennifer-pahlka-coding-a-better-government?start=0 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. Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:36:00 -0800 http://news.linktv.org/videos/jennifer-pahlka-coding-a-better-government Code for America, Jennifer Pahlka, Internet, Internet activism, Peace Corps, TED (conference) 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, an organization she describes as being like Peace Corps for geeks, “only instead of sending people to the third world, we send them to the wilds of City Hall.” The fellows’ mission, should they choose to accept it, is to show government what’s possible via technology. She shows a picture of a fire hydrant in Boston that was only rarely dug out when it snowed. One of the Code for America volunteers built an app to let people commit to digging it out. It’s only a small product, she acknowledges, yet its impact has been viral. Someone in Honolulu has adapted the app to care for tsunami sirens; Seattle has adopted it to get people to clear storm drains; Chicago is using it to get people to sign up to clear sidewalks when it snows. Nine cities have signed up: the app’s influence has spread organically and without friction. And that’s not normally how it goes in government. She mentions another project helping parents get their kids into the right public school. In the real world, she was told that would have taken two years and cost $2 million. The Code for America fellow cranked it out in 2.5 months. Yet the main theme of Pahlka’s talk is not to talk about apps. Those are just the start. Instead, she implores the audience to engage with government, not give up on it. Sure, we can be frustrated, but we can’t give up. “Government is about doing together what we can’t do alone.” And government, too, is how we tackle people’s possum problems. What on earth does she mean? Simple. She means someone who calls a city helpline to report a possum in a trash can. In Boston, someone posted just that problem to the app Citizens Connect. A neighbor saw the post and responded: “Located trash can. Possum? Check. Living? Yep. Turned the trash can on its side. Walked home. Good night, sweet possum.” As Pahlka describes it, it’s a great example of digital meeting physical–and of government getting in on crowdsourcing. And that’s how we should think of government, as a platform to connect people and thereby strengthen communities. “We have to make bureaucracy sexy,” she says to an admittedly lone whoop from the audience. Instead of despising bureaucracy and government, we should consider how we interact with an institution that, after all, acts on all our behalves. “We can’t do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.” Inspired by the way in which Code for America fellows have applied themselves, she sees the apps they are creating as “little digital reminders that we’re not just consumers of government. We’re more than that. We’re citizens.” And she closes with a provocative question: “When it comes to the big important things we need to do together, are we just going to be a crowd of voices or a crowd of hands?” ---- So a couple of years ago I started a program to try to get the rockstar tech and design people to take a year off and work in the one environment that represents pretty much everything they're supposed to hate; we have them work in government. The program is called Code for America, and it's a little bit like a Peace Corps for geeks. We select a few fellows every year and we have them work with city governments. Instead of sending them off into the Third World, we send them into the wilds of City Hall. And there they make great apps, they work with city staffers. But really what they're doing is they're showing what's possible with technology today. So meet Al. Al is a fire hydrant in the city of Boston. Here it kind of looks like he's looking for a date, but what he's really looking for is for someone to shovel him out when he gets snowed in, because he knows he's not very good at fighting fires when he's covered in four feet of snow. Now how did he come to be looking for help in this very unique manner? We had a team of fellows in Boston last year through the Code for America program. They were there in February, and it snowed a lot in February last year. And they noticed that the city never gets to digging out these fire hydrants. But one fellow in particular, a guy named Erik Michaels-Ober, noticed something else, and that's that citizens are shoveling out sidewalks right in front of these things. So he did what any good developer would do, he wrote an app. It's a cute little app where you can adopt a fire hydrant. So you agree to dig it out when it snows. If you do, you get to name it, and he called the first one Al. And if you don't, someone can steal it from you. So it's got cute little game dynamics on it. This is a modest little app. It's probably the smallest of the 21 apps that the fellows wrote last year. But it's doing something that no other government technology does. It's spreading virally. There's a guy in the I.T. department of the City of Honolulu who saw this app and realized that he could use it, not for snow, but to get citizens to adopt tsunami sirens. It's very important that these tsunami sirens work, but people steal the batteries out of them. So he's getting citizens to check on them. And then Seattle decided to use it to get citizens to clear out clogged storm drains. And Chicago just rolled it out to get people to sign up to shovel sidewalks when it snows. So we now know of nine cities that are planning to use this. And this has spread just frictionlessly, organically, naturally. If you know anything about government technology, you know that this isn't how it normally goes. Procuring software usually takes a couple of years. We had a team that worked on a project in Boston last year that took three people about two and a half months. It was a way that parents could figure out which were the right public schools for their kids. We were told afterward that if that had gone through normal channels, it would have taken at least two years and it would have cost about two million dollars. And that's nothing. There is one project in the California court system right now that so far cost taxpayers two billion dollars, and it doesn't work. And there are projects like this at every level of government. So an app that takes a couple of days to write and then spreads virally, that's sort of a shot across the bow to the institution of government. It suggests how government could work better -- not more like a private company, as many people think it should. And not even like a tech company, but more like the Internet itself. And that means permissionless, it means open, it means generative. And that's important. But what's more important about this app is that it represents how a new generation is tackling the problem of government -- not as the problem of an ossified institution, but as a problem of collective action. And that's great news, because, it turns out, we're very good at collective action with digital technology. Now there's a very large community of people that are building the tools that we need to do things together effectively. It's not just Code for America fellows, there are hundreds of people all over the country that are standing and writing civic apps every day in their own communities. They haven't given up on government. They are frustrated as hell with it, but they're not complaining about it, they're fixing it. And these folks know something that we've lost sight of. And that's that when you strip away all your feelings about politics and the line at the DMV and all those other things that we're really mad about, government is, at its core, in the words of Tim O'Reilly, "What we do together that we can't do alone." Now a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing. And because government ultimately derives its power from us -- remember "We the people?" -- how we think about it is going to effect how that change happens. Now I didn't know very much about government when I started this program. And like a lot of people, I thought government was basically about getting people elected to office. Well after two years, I've come to the conclusion that, especially local government, is about opossums. This is the call center for the services and information line. It's generally where you will get if you call 311 in your city. If you should ever have the chance to staff your city's call center, as our fellow Scott Silverman did as part of the program -- in fact, they all do that -- you will find that people call government with a very wide range of issues, including having an opossum stuck in your house. So Scott gets this call. He types "Opossum" into this official knowledge base. He doesn't really come up with anything. He starts with animal control. And finally, he says, "Look, can you just open all the doors to your house and play music really loud and see if the thing leaves?" So that worked. So booya for Scott. But that wasn't the end of the opossums. Boston doesn't just have a call center. It has an app, a Web and mobile app, called Citizens Connect. Now we didn't write this app. This is the work of the very smart people at the Office of New Urban Mechanics in Boston. So one day -- this is an actual report -- this came in: "Opossum in my trashcan. Can't tell if it's dead. How do I get this removed?" But what happens with Citizens Connect is different. So Scott was speaking person-to-person. But on Citizens Connect everything is public, so everybody can see this. And in this case, a neighbor saw it. And the next report we got said, "I walked over to this location, found the trashcan behind the house. Opossum? Check. Living? Yep. Turned trashcan on its side. Walked home. Goodnight sweet opossum." (Laughter) Pretty simple. So this is great. This is the digital meeting the physical. And it's also a great example of government getting in on the crowd-sourcing game. But it's also a great example of government as a platform. And I don't mean necessarily a technological definition of platform here. I'm just talking about a platform for people to help themselves and to help others. So one citizen helped another citizen, but government played a key role here. It connected those two people. And it could have connected them with government services if they'd been needed, but a neighbor is a far better and cheaper alternative to government services. When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities. We call animal control, it just costs a lot of money. Now one of the important things we need to think about government is that it's not the same thing as politics. And most people get that, but they think that one is the input to the other. That our input to the system of government is voting. Now how many times have we elected a political leader -- and sometimes we spend a lot of energy getting a new political leader elected -- and then we sit back and we expect government to reflect our values and meet our needs, and then not that much changes? That's because government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top. And what's under that is what we call bureaucracy. And we say that word with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us, this other thing, and then we're disempowering ourselves. People seem to think politics is sexy. If we want this institution to work for us, we're going to have to make bureaucracy sexy. Because that's where the real work of government happens. We have to engage with the machinery of government. So that's OccupytheSEC movement has done. Have you seen these guys? It's a group of concerned citizens that have written a very detailed 325-page report that's a response to the SEC's request for comment on the Financial Reform Bill. That's not being politically active, that's being bureaucratically active. Now for those of us who've given up on government, it's time that we asked ourselves about the world that we want to leave for our children. You have to see the enormous challenges that they're going to face. Do we really think we're going to get where we need to go without fixing the one institution that can act on behalf of all of us? We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective. The good news is that technology is making it possible to fundamentally reframe the function of government in a way that can actually scale by strengthening civil society. And there's a generation out there that's grown up on the Internet, and they know that it's not that hard to do things together, you just have to architect the systems the right way. Now the average age of our fellows is 28, so I am, begrudgingly, almost a generation older than most of them. This is a generation that's grown up taking their voices pretty much for granted. They're not fighting that battle that we're all fighting about who gets to speak; they all get to speak. They can express their opinion on any channel at any time, and they do. So when they're faced with the problem of government, they don't care as much about using their voices. They're using their hands. They're using their hands to write applications that make government work better. And those applications let us use our hands to make our communities better. That could be shoveling out a hydrant, pulling a weed, turning over a garbage can with an opossum in it. And certainly, we could have been shoveling out those fire hydrants all along, and many people do. But these apps are like little digital reminders that we're not just consumers, and we're not just consumers of government, putting in our taxes and getting back services. We're more than that, we're citizens. And we're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship. So the question I have for all of you here: When it comes to the big, important things that we need to do together, all of us together, are we just going to be a crowd of voices, or are we also going to be a crowd of hands? Thank you. http://news.linktv.org/videos/james-hansen-why-i-must-speak-out-about-climate-change?start=0 Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. He outlines the overwhelming evidence that makes him deeply worried about the future then proposes a financial strategy for carbon emissions. Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:43:00 -0800 http://news.linktv.org/videos/james-hansen-why-i-must-speak-out-about-climate-change Climate change, Global warming, Carbon tax, Greenhouse gas, James Hansen, Carbon dioxide, TED (conference) Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. He outlines the overwhelming evidence that makes him deeply worried about the future then proposes a financial strategy for carbon emissions. http://news.linktv.org/videos/defend-our-freedom-to-share-or-why-sopa-is-a-bad-idea?start=0 What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:33:00 -0800 http://news.linktv.org/videos/defend-our-freedom-to-share-or-why-sopa-is-a-bad-idea Stop Online Piracy Act , Protect IP act, Copyright infringement, Internet censorship, US Congress, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Intellectual property, Clay Shirky, YouTube, Twitter What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume. http://news.linktv.org/videos/richard-wilkinson-how-economic-inequality-harms-societies?start=0 Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust. Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:03:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/richard-wilkinson-how-economic-inequality-harms-societies Richard G. Wilkinson, Economic inequality, Poverty, Occupy movement, Social mobility, Social justice, TED (conference) We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust. http://news.linktv.org/videos/julia-bacha-pay-attention-to-non-violence?start=0 In 2003, the Palestinian village of Budrus mounted a 10-month protest to stop a barrier being built across their land, but coverage of the protest was limited. Brazilian filmmaker Julia Bacha asks why we only pay attention to violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict. Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:19:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/julia-bacha-pay-attention-to-non-violence Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Nonviolence, Budrus, Israeli West Bank barrier, Palestinians, West Bank, Jerusalem, Israel, Separation barrier, Julia Bacha In 2003, the Palestinian village of Budrus mounted a 10-month-long, non-violent protest to stop a barrier being built across their olive groves. Did you hear about it? Probably not. Brazilian filmmaker Julia Bacha asks why we only pay attention to violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict -- and not to the nonviolent leaders who may one day bring peace. ---- I'm a filmmaker. For the last 8 years, I have dedicated my life to documenting the work of Israelis and Palestinians who are trying to end the conflict using peaceful means. When I travel with my work across Europe and the United States, one question always comes up: Where is the Palestinian Gandhi? Why aren't Palestinians using nonviolent resistance? The challenge I face when I hear this question is that often I have just returned from the Middle East where I spent my time filming dozens of Palestinians who are using nonviolence to defend their lands and water resources from Israeli soldiers and settlers. These leaders are trying to forge a massive national nonviolent movement to end the occupation and build peace in the region. Yet, most of you have probably never heard about them. This divide between what's happening on the ground and perceptions abroad is one of the key reasons why we don't have yet a Palestinian peaceful resistance movement that has been successful. So I'm here today to talk about the power of attention, the power of your attention, and the emergence and development of nonviolent movements in the West Bank, Gaza and elsewhere -- but today, my case study is going to be Palestine. I believe that what's mostly missing for nonviolence to grow is not for Palestinians to start adopting nonviolence, but for us to start paying attention to those who already are. Allow me to illustrate this point by taking you to this village called Budrus. About seven years ago, they faced extinction, because Israel announced it would build a separation barrier, and part of this barrier would be built on top of the village. They would lose 40 percent of their land and be surrounded, so they would lose free access to the rest of the West Bank. Through inspired local leadership, they launched a peaceful resistance campaign to stop that from happening. Let me show you some brief clips, so you have a sense for what that actually looked like on the ground. (Music) Palestinian Woman: We were told the wall would separate Palestine from Israel. Here in Budrus, we realized the wall would steal our land. Israeli Man: The fence has, in fact, created a solution to terror. Man: Today you're invited to a peaceful march. You are joined by dozens of your Israeli brothers and sisters. Israeli Activist: Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition. Woman: We saw the men trying to push the soldiers, but none of them could do that. But I think the girls could do it. Fatah Party Member: We must empty our minds of traditional thinking. Hamas Party Member: We were in complete harmony, and we wanted to spread it to all of Palestine. Chanting: One united nation. Fatah, Hamas and the Popular Front! News Anchor: The clashes over the fence continue. Reporter: Israeli border police were sent to disperse the crowd. They were allowed to use any force necessary. (Gunshots) Man: These are live bullets. It's like Fallujah. Shooting everywhere. Israeli Activist: I was sure we were going to die. But there were others around me who weren't even cowering. Israeli Soldier: A nonviolent protest is not going to stop the [unclear]. Protester: This is a peaceful march. There is no need to use violence. Chanting: We can do it. We can do it. We can do it! Julia Bacha: When I first heard about the story of Budrus, I was surprised that the international media had failed to cover the extraordinary set of events that happened seven years ago, in 2003. What was even more surprising was the fact that Budrus was successful. The residents, after 10 months of peaceful resistance, convinced the Israeli government to move the route of the barrier off their lands and to the green line, which is the internationally recognized boundary between Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The resistance in Budrus has since spread to villages across the West Bank and to Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem. Yet the media remains mostly silent on these stories. This silence carries profound consequences for the likelihood that nonviolence can grow, or even survive, in Palestine. Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common; they are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause. If violent actors are the only ones constantly getting front-page covers and attracting international attention to the Palestinian issue, it becomes very hard for nonviolent leaders to make the case to their communities that civil disobedience is a viable option in addressing their plight. The power of attention is probably going to come as no surprise to the parents in the room. The surest way to make your child throw increasingly louder tantrums is by giving him attention the first time he throws a fit. The tantrum will become what childhood psychologists call a functional behavior, since the child has learned that he can get parental attention out of it. Parents can incentivize or disincentivize behavior simply by giving or withdrawing attention to their children. But that's true for adults too. In fact, the behavior of entire communities and countries can be influenced, depending on where the international community chooses to focus its attention. I believe that at the core of ending the conflict in the Middle East and bringing peace is for us to transform nonviolence into a functional behavior by giving a lot more attention to the nonviolent leaders on the ground today. In the course of taking my film to villages in the West Bank and in Gaza and in East Jerusalem, I have seen the impact that even one documentary film can have in influencing the transformation. In a village called Wallajeh, which sits very close to Jerusalem, the community was facing a very similar plight to Budrus. They were going to be surrounded, lose a lot of their lands and not have freedom of access, either to the West Bank or Jerusalem. They had been using nonviolence for about two years, but had grown disenchanted since nobody was paying attention. So we organized a screening. A week later, they held the most well-attended and disciplined demonstration to date. The organizers say that the villagers, upon seeing the story of Budrus documented in a film, felt that there were indeed people following what they were doing, that people cared. So they kept on going. On the Israeli side, there is a new peace movement called Solidariot, which means solidarity in Hebrew. The leaders of this movement have been using Budrus as one of their primary recruiting tools. They report that Israelis who had never been active before, upon seeing the film, understand the power of nonviolence and start joining their activities. The example of Wallajeh and the Solidariot movement show that even a small-budget independent film can play a roll in transforming nonviolence into a functional behavior. Now imagine the power that big media players could have if they started covering the weekly nonviolent demonstrations happening in villages like Bil'in, Ni'lin, Wallajeh, in Jerusalem neighborhoods like Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan -- the nonviolent leaders would become more visible, valued and effective in their work. I believe that the most important thing is to understand that if we don't pay attention to these efforts, they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply. If they multiply, their influence will grow in the overall Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And theirs is the kind of influence that can finally unblock the situation. These leaders have proven that nonviolence works in places like Budrus. Let's give them attention so they can prove it works everywhere. Thank you. http://news.linktv.org/videos/rory-stewart-time-to-end-the-war-in-afghanistan?start=0 British MP Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan after 9/11, talking with citizens and warlords alike. Now, a decade later, he asks: Why are Western and coalition forces still fighting there? Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:00:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/rory-stewart-time-to-end-the-war-in-afghanistan Afghanistan, Rory Stewart, Afghanistan War, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Afghanistan troop surge, NATO, British Armed Forces, US Army, Bosnia and Herzegovina British MP Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan after 9/11, talking with citizens and warlords alike. Now, a decade later, he asks: Why are Western and coalition forces still fighting there? He shares lessons from past military interventions that worked -- Bosnia, for instance -- and shows that humility and local expertise are the keys to success. http://news.linktv.org/videos/creating-superheroes-in-the-middle-east?start=0 After being attacked for being an Arab soon after 9/11, Suleiman Bakhit realized there were no Arab superheroes. So he started to create them, asking children in the Middle East, "If you had the power to change the world, what would you do?" Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:15:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/creating-superheroes-in-the-middle-east Arab culture, Suleiman Bakhit, Aranim, Arab people, Superhero, Comic book, Arab world, Al Jazeera English, TED (conference) Al Jazeera's Bilal Randeree speaks to Suleiman Bakhit, a comic creator and social media entrepreneur. After being attacked for being an Arab soon after 9/11, Suleiman realized there were no Arab superheroes. So he started to create them, asking children in the Middle East, "If you had the power to change the world, what would you do?" http://news.linktv.org/videos/julian-assange-why-the-world-needs-wikileaks?start=0 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange makes his case before the 2010 TED conference. Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:59:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/julian-assange-why-the-world-needs-wikileaks WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, TED (conference), Chris Anderson The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and videos. Founder Julian Assange, who is reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished and what drives him.