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Bill McKibben receives the 2012-2013 Anvil of Freedom Award |
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Bill McKibben was honored as the recipient of the Estlow Center's 2012-2013 Anvil of Freedom award. The ceremony was highlighted as the keynote address of the Journalism that Matters gathering on April 3rd and 4th, 2013 at the Morgridge School of Education.
[From left to right: Bill McKibben, Ed & Charlotte Estlow, Chancellor Robert Coombe, Lynn Schofield Clark]
Look here for a summary of McKibben's talk as well as archived video of the event.
About Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time Magazine called him 'the planet's best green journalist' and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was 'probably the country's most important environmentalist.' Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges, including the Universities of Massachusetts and Maine, the State University of New York, and Whittier and Colgate Colleges. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Parenting Challenges in a Digital Age |
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A recent NY Times article takes a look at surveillance tools that parents use to track their children's digital lives. The article frames a debate over how much a parent should try to track and control their children's internet and phone usage. Professor Lynn Schofield Clark of DU's department of Media Film and Journalism Studies is quoted in the article." 'It’s too easy to get involved in surveillance,' Ms. Clark said. 'That undermines our influence as parents. Kids interpret that as a lack of trust.' ” Read the article in its entirety on nytimes.com here. |
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2012 Anvil of Freedom Award |
Estlow Center’s Anvil of Freedom awarded to crowdsourcing organization Ushahidi
By Brenda Gillen
The DU-based Edward W. and Charlotte A. Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media bestowed its 2012 Anvil of Freedom award on the nonprofit organization Ushahidi at a ceremony on Jan. 12 at Davis Auditorium in Sturm Hall. Around 75 people attended the award presentation, including Edward and Charlotte Estlow, for whom the Estlow Center is named. Juliana Rotich, Ushahidi cofounder and executive director, accepted the award.
Ushahidi, which means “testimony” in Swahili, uses crowdsourced crisis mapping to foster citizen journalism. Anyone, anywhere in the world can use the Ushahidi platform to report vital information from cell phones or computers. The information is then uploaded quickly — almost in real time — to maps that reveal where instances of violence, sickness or destruction have occurred, enabling human service organizations to respond quickly.
Ushahidi began with the 2007–08 electoral violence in Kenya. Since then, it has been deployed in crises in Haiti, Mumbai, Japan, Libya and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It has helped track cases of swine flu worldwide and chronicled storm-related problems in the northeastern U.S. after Hurricane Irene. Rotich says there have been 20,000 Ushahidi deployments in 120 countries.
“[The award] is a big honor to the Ushahidi team and community and underscores our mission to change the way information flows and to empower people to use whichever devices they have available to bear witness to what is going on around them,” Rotich says. During her speech, she noted that Ushahidi was designed for mobile phone use because, at the time, less than 3 percent of Kenyans had Internet access. |
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