{"id":11683,"date":"2014-10-18T23:09:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T23:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swhype.com\/?p=11683"},"modified":"2015-06-11T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T17:11:40","slug":"esther-dyson-the-way-to-wellville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swhype.com\/video-production-agency\/esther-dyson-the-way-to-wellville\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way To Wellville: The Investor Who is Rethinking the World&#8217;s Health"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AJUK78lZwLA&#8221;][divider line_type=&#8221;No Line&#8221; custom_height=&#8221;20&#8243;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243; animation=&#8221;none&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; el_class=&#8221;left-column&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<hr \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=&#8221;No Line&#8221; custom_height=&#8221;10&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<h6>VIDEO: Esther Dyson interview with\u00a0Terry Stone from\u00a0<em>Oliver Wyman Health &amp; Life Sciences<\/em><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<p class=\"p1\">WE&#8217;VE BEEN WIRED, tired and inspired at <i>Swhype<\/i> this week, whilst checking out the <a title=\"Wired 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wiredevent.co.uk\/wired-2014\" target=\"_blank\"><b>WIRED 2014<\/b><\/a> conference at East London\u2019s <b>Tobacco Dock<\/b>. We thought we\u2019d share some of the amazing projects and ideas which were presented over the last two days. It\u2019s an incredibly motivational event, featuring more than 50 speakers from around the globe, from entrepreneurs, research scientists and inventors to human rights activists and startup founders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One of the most ambitious projects but also one of those which really might just change things is <a title=\"The Way To Wellville\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hiccup.co\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Way To Wellville<\/i><\/a>, an initiative from non-profit organisation <i>HICCup<\/i> which is aimed at improving the health of individual towns and communities who have applied to be part of the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Through research, learning and testing, together with the help of health and food companies, the plan is to run the project in 5 US towns which are particularly vulnerable to issues like obesity and mental health. The progress and effects of the <i>Wellville<\/i> project can then be measured over 5 years and scaled to other parts of the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Speaking at <b>WIRED 2014<\/b>, serial investor and founder of <i>Wellville,<\/i> <b>Esther Dyson<\/b>\u00a0(<a title=\"@edyson\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edyson\" target=\"_blank\">@edyson<\/a>) explained that the hope is other towns will be inspired to copy the model and ultimately the idea of improving the health of whole communities will spread throughout the States and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">In a nutshell, as Dyson says, \u201cstress creates poverty, poverty creates ill health, ill health creates poverty. W<\/span>e&#8217;re trying to give people back their resilience to stress &#8211; it&#8217;s giving them the wisdom, the connections, the networks they need.<span class=\"s1\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We\u2019ll be watching the progress of <i>The Way To Wellville<\/i>\u00a0from across the pond and offering\u00a0any help we can along the way.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=&#8221;sidebar-1&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through research, learning and testing, together with the help of health and food companies, the plan is to run the project in 5 US towns which are particularly vulnerable to issues like obesity and mental health. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[937,2174,2170,2164,2172,2166,2167,2163,2173,2162,2171,1336,2169,918,898,935,2168,906,1553,2165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swhype.com\/video-production-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swhype.com\/video-production-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swhype.com\/video-production-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swhype.com\/video-production-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swhype.com\/video-production-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swhype.com\/video-production-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swhype.com\/video-production-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swhype.com\/video-production-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swhype.com\/video-production-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swhype.com\/video-production-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11683"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swhype.com\/video-production-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}