Who should be nominated for a TED Prize?
We are looking for inventors and entrepreneurs, designers and artists, visionaries and mavericks, protectors and persuaders. Our prize-winners may be very different, but they will have this in common: They will be doing something that has extraordinary potential, something whose positive influence could spread, transcending borders, something that can contribute to the future of life on Earth. We are looking for people who can tap into the energy of the TED Community and inspire them to come along on the journey of making this great change in the world.
Our winners should have one or more of the following:
Inventiveness
Perhaps they have created a new device or system or process capable of impacting millions of people for the better.They may be brilliant scientists, or the inspired designers of simple, cheap technologies.
Creativity
They may be artists, uniting people through shared emotion. They may be filmmakers, potters, painters, poets, dancers, sculptors, storytellers, beauty-makers.
Vision
They can perhaps unlock the power of possibility. They can help us understand, through inspired insight, our personal and universal potential and predicament. They are today’s prophets.
Leadership
They may attract loyalty and respect. They may inspire the support of talented colleagues and employees. They may build powerful teams, capable of dramatically leveraging the impact of their efforts.
Persuasion
They may be powerful communicators, whether face-to-face, or via the Internet, the classroom, the newspaper or the screen. They connect hemispheres and households. They may be teachers, troubadours or town criers, campaigners or naysayers. When they write and speak, they change people’s minds. They will act as catalysts to the TED Community, inspiring members of TED to step up to the challenge that their wish presents.
