What is your wish for The City 2.0? That's what the folks at
TED, the global nonprofit devoted to "ideas worth spreading," want to know. Most years, they award the $100,000
TED Prize to an individual with "one wish to change the world." This year, they awarded it to an idea: the city of the future -- "a future in which more than ten billion people on planet Earth must somehow live sustainably."
Individuals are invited to register on their website (
www.thecity2.org) and form cross-disciplinary groups to:
- Determine the issue they want to tackle (i.e. traffic, lack of trees);
- Collectively determine a solution;
- Collaboratively develop an action plan;
- Work to implement the solution;
- Share the story of their success or failure with others.
Ten micro grants of $10,000 will be awarded in July 2012 to ten local projects that have the best hope of spurring the creation of their City 2.0.
Interested in forming a Detroit team and project? Read more
here.