Story highlights The winner will be announced in JulyThe award has been created by the MIT Media Lab(CNN) MIT has created an award for rule-breakers. The university's Media Lab announced this week it will award $250,000 to a group or individual for disobedience. "You don't change the world by doing what you're told," according to Joi Ito , the director of MIT's Media Lab. "You don't get a Nobel Prize for doing what you're told, you get it for questioning authority," Ito said. Martin Luther King Jr. and Galileo, the people who created the Environmental Protection Agency mirror website and activists in Bangladesh fighting for LGBTQ rights.

Source: CNN March 09, 2017 00:00 UTC