{"id":5528,"date":"2013-10-28T10:06:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T15:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=5528"},"modified":"2013-10-28T10:06:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T15:06:16","slug":"google-ideas-creator-to-present-waitt-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/5528","title":{"rendered":"Google Ideas creator to present Waitt Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5529\" style=\"width: 187px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5529\" alt=\"Jared Cohen\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2013\/10\/JaredCohen-187x300.jpg\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2013\/10\/JaredCohen-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2013\/10\/JaredCohen.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jared Cohen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Imagine if just one organization could fight violent crime, empower people in third world countries to take part in their government, and use network mappers to show a political climate. These are just a few goals that Google Ideas has in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Jared Cohen, founder and director of Google Ideas, will present the 2013 Waitt Lecture on Tuesday, October 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the newly renovated Eppley Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen, age 31, has degrees from Stanford University and Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar, where he studied international relations. After graduation Cohen was a member of the policy planning staff at the U.S. State Department. There, he advised Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>His ideas helped to shape what the State Department called \u201c21st\u00a0Century Statecraft,\u201d adding social networking and other technology to the traditional tools of diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen\u2019s first book, <i>One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide, <\/i>was published in 2006. In 2007, his second book was published, <i>Children of Jihad: A Young American\u2019s Travels among the Youth of the Middle East<\/i>. The material for this book came from his travels as a graduate student. He visited Internet cafes in Iran, Palestinian refugee camps and parties in Lebanon and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen co-authored his most recent book, <i>The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business<\/i> with Google executive Eric Schmidt. <i>The New Digital Age <\/i>is a New York Times bestseller. Cohen\u2019s current work is using technology to solve global problems. For example, Google Ideas is designing a way to use a network to disrupt the flow of human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>In April this year, Cohen was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by <i>Time<\/i> magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if just one organization could fight violent crime, empower people in third world countries to take part in their government, and use network mappers to show a political climate. These are just a few goals that Google Ideas has in mind. Jared Cohen, founder and director of Google Ideas, will present the 2013 Waitt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":5529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5530,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions\/5530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}