In a blog post recapping the event, Fletcher student Elia Boggia, F13, notes:

“As the two debaters initially made their way to the stage – wearing boxing gloves and capes – and throughout the duration of the debate, the auditorium was buzzing with vivacity, creating an atmosphere akin to an orderly sports arena. Students in the audience cheered, held signs expressing their views on energy issues and live tweeted from the event using the hash tags #campmoomaw and #campeverett.” (Ella Boggia)

Boggia, was joined by Mohannad Al-Suwaidan, F12, and Kartikeya Singh, Ph.D anticipated in 2015, in live-tweeting the event.

[View the story "The Ninth Annual Everett-Moomaw Debate on Climate Change, Energy & the Environment" on Storify]

You can also check out the recap from our live-tweet archive.

[View the story "Libya: Lessons and Prospects" on Storify]

]]> http://sites.tufts.edu/events/2011/10/14/libya-lessons-and-prospects/feed/ 0 http://sites.tufts.edu/events/2011/04/15/the-innovation-revolution/ http://sites.tufts.edu/events/2011/04/15/the-innovation-revolution/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:04:47 +0000 Georgy Cohen http://sites.tufts.edu/events/?p=346 On Apr. 14, the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy’s Energy, Climate, and Innovation Program welcomed Dr. Lakshmi Karan, MALD ’00 and Ph.D. ‘09, to deliver a talk on social entrepreneurship and innovation titled “The Innovation Revolution: How Social Entrepreneurs are Challenging the Status Quo to Address the World’s Most Pressing Problems.”

Dr. Karan’s presentation offered insight into this movement and offered examples from around the world of innovators, who have different business models, growth strategies and financing mechanisms, but share one common objective: to deliver high quality, sustainable impact.

Dr. Karan serves as Director of Global Strategy at Riders for Health, a social enterprise that delivers health services to over 10 million people in sub-Saharan Africa.

The forum is sponsored by Tufts University’s Communications and Media Studies Program, the Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy, and the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service.

We live-tweeted the presentations from the classic competition.

Congratulations to the winners!

• Roof for Two in the classic competition
• Sanergy in the social entrepreneurship competition

Here’s the live-reporting recap of the event:

• Christine Shepherd coming to you from @fletcherschool event “Wikileaks and Beyond”. #wikileaksandbeyond
• Crocker Snow, director of Murrow Center’s opening remarks: “Assange is held in higher esteem outside the US” #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Gavin Macfayden, investigative journalist and media partner of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange speaking now. #WikiLeaksAndBeyond
• Macfayden sharing information about what Iraq warlogs – reports from US soldiers on the ground – showed #WikileaksAndBeyond
• “Torture continued after Abu Ghraib….lots of civilian deaths…” recorded by the Iraq warlogs. #WikileaksAndBeyond
• “681 Iraqi civilians killed (by US forces) at roadblocks alone…their families were never compensated” #WikileaksAndBeyond
• “Information from Iraq warlogs has consequences.” #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Macfayden’s group created film about Iraq Warlogs but there was no interest in showing it in the US. #WikileaksAndBeyond
• “NYT only covered a fraction of the Wikileaks” #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Macfayden mentioned several times the extreme rhetoric by members of congress to “assassinate” Assange. #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Now moving to respondents. The French consul, Mr. Guilhou speaking now from the diplomatic angle. #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Guilhou: “diplomacy is based on trust.” Wikileaks worked to hurt this trust. #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Now @fletcherschool student, Elise Crane, F11 speaking. #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Crane sees 3 implications for diplomacy after Wikileaks. #WikileaksAndBeyond
• 1. “undermines trust” 2. “prevents info sharing” 3. “keeps diplomats from doing real jobs – they’re mending relations” #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Macfayden: interesting that diplomats worry about hurting feelings and maintaining secrecy when corrupt regimes exist. #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Question: who holds the whistleblowers accountable? #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Gavin MacFayden: journalists are held accountable. If the info is wrong, they are held accountable. #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Audience member: “no evidence that Wikileaks has put people in danger” #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Question: “How does PJ Crowley’s recent resignation relate to Wikileaks” #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Gavin answers question about distinction b/t “on and off the record”: very difficult to make distinction. #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Crowley steps in: is there still a distinction in the age of Wikileaks?#WikileaksAndBeyond
• Gavin: sources should be kept secret but maybe “arms sales to Saudi Arabia” might not need to be secret. #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Respondents want to stay away from the PJ Crowley question.#WikileaksAndBeyond
• Question: “is there any evidence that what diplomats are worrying about is happening?” #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Guilhou: “I guess so…” #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Audience Member: “Wikileaks seemed motivated to embarrass diplomats rather than promote transparency” #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Question: post Wikileaks, will training of diplomats have to change?#WikileaksAndBeyond
• Guilhou: in a sense yes. Diplomats will need to work with journalists.#WikileaksAndBeyond
• Question: is Wikileaks like the new napster? Will it be irrelevant in a few years. #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Not a clear answer to the napster/Wikileaks question.#WikileaksAndBeyond
• Audience member: “diplomatic services often forget the core value of freedom of the media.” #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Guilhou: “position of French gov’t is not to accept or deny Wikileaks”#WikileaksAndBeyond
• Guilhou: “often wonder when you write a cable back to your gov’t whether or not cable will be published.” #WikileaksAndBeyond
• Gavin has last words – “there will be more history unfolding b/c many new documents have been pouring into Wikileaks”#WikileaksAndBeyond
• “Wikileaks model is replicable- one in Indonesia, brazil, San Diego…..” #WikileaksAndBeyond
• In closing, Gavin asked for volunteers to the Wikileaks org (half joking). #WikileaksAndBeyond

This flyer [PDF] has more information about the film

ElBaradei has been in the news given the recent developments in his native Egypt.