{"id":643871,"date":"2013-02-25T16:41:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T21:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=70556"},"modified":"2013-02-25T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T03:29:00","slug":"knight-foundation-gives-ted-985k-grant-to-advance-the-use-of-technology-to-turn-ideas-into-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/643871","title":{"rendered":"Knight Foundation gives TED $985K grant to advance the use of technology to turn ideas into action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_70576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 540px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tedconference\/sets\/72157632854069316\/with\/8505749175\/http:\/\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-70576\" alt=\"A scene from the Knight Foundation \/ TED workshop on Sunday, February 24, 2013. Photo: Michael Brands\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/8505749175_c364e2ac89_z.jpg?w=530&#038;h=352\" width=\"530\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from the Knight Foundation \/ TED workshop on Sunday, February 24, 2013. Photo: Michael Brands<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/knightfdn\">Knight Foundation<\/a> announced today a grant to TED &#8212; $985K to help TED leverage technology to turn\u00a0TED.com\u00a0into an action platform, one that allows members of the TED community to work on amplifying and measuring the impact of ideas as they ripple through society, producing technology tools and best practices for connected action.\u00a0The grant is part of Knight\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knightfoundation.org\/funding-initiatives\/tech-engagement\/\">Tech for Engagement Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding how ideas turn into action is a key priority for many in our community,&#8221; says TED\u2019s own Chris Anderson. &#8220;We&#8217;re excited to be building a new web feature to track the impact some of our talks have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Knight Foundation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knightfoundation.org\/blogs\/knightblog\/2013\/2\/25\/ideas-action-knight-helps-ted-develop-engagement-platform\/\">held a workshop<\/a> in advance of TED2013 to bring together\u00a0close to 20 people with expertise in online engagement from the business, tech, academic and nonprofit sectors to brainstorm guiding principles and tactics for the development of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ted.com\/\" >TED.com<\/a>\u00a0as an action platform. The Knight grant will support the development and evolution of that platform.\u00a0It will also support two TED fellows dedicated to Tech for Engagement projects.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Knight Foundation is co-sponsoring a social space that is hosting several TED Challenges at TED2013, as well as funding the TED Fellows Program; Knight is also a supporter of the City 2.0 initiative.<\/p>\n<p>TED is among three recipients of major grants from the Knight Foundation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knightfoundation.org\/blogs\/knightblog\/2013\/2\/25\/knight-doubles-down-on-techs-potential-to-connect-communities-for-action\/\">announced today<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/codeforamerica.org\/\">Code for America<\/a>, which connects a network of tech-enthusiasts with cities that need their web expertise, received a $5 million grant to expand its four programs to 13 communities. <a href=\"http:\/\/wagner.nyu.edu\/centers\/govlab\">GovLab<\/a> &#8212; which is housed at New York University and teaches students to design, build and implement tech solutions to problems &#8212; received a grant of $3.12 million.<\/p>\n<p>Damian Thorman, Knight\u2019s director of national programs, finds common threads among these grants and actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe in the power of connected action,\u201d he says. \u201cThe field of tech for engagement is young, and [it] needs infrastructure to develop to its full potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/70556\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/70556\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=70556&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/f87y8_NG-GI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scene from the Knight Foundation \/ TED workshop on Sunday, February 24, 2013. Photo: Michael Brands The Knight Foundation announced today a grant to TED &#8212; $985K to help TED leverage technology to turn\u00a0TED.com\u00a0into an action platform, one that allows members of the TED community to work on amplifying and measuring the impact of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}