TEDxUniversityofGothenburg - Jan Eliasson - The Global Water and Sanitation Crisis
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Access to clean water is a human right and is closely incorporated in the Millennium Development Goal number 7 with the aim to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Jan Eliasson is chairman of the Swedish WaterAid, former Minister of Foreign Affairs in Sweden and currentl... Read more
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- -: TEDxUniversityofGothenburg - Jan Eliasson - The Global Water and Sanitation Crisis
December 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Access to clean water is a human right and is closely incorporated in the Millennium Development Goal number 7 with the aim to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Jan Eliasson is chairman of the Swedish WaterAid, former ...
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- -: TEDxSingapore - NIkki Shaw - How building toilets is key to better lives
December 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Nikki Shaw is a water and sanitation (watsan) engineer with a passion for toilets. With a career spanning two decades and five continents, Nikki has extensive watsan expertise in both industrial and developing countries: Rural water supply systems in Botswana, grassroots sanitation provision pro...
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- -: TEDxChange - Hans Rosling - Child Mortailty, Family Planning & the Environment
May 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)In this animated version of his talk from TEDxChange, Hans Rosling discusses Millennium Development Goal #5: Reduction in child mortality rate of two-thirds by 2015. Dr. Rosling highlights progress happening in Africa and the need to measure each country individually. Professor Hans Rosling, co...
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- -: TEDxChange - Melinda Gates - Learning From Innovators in Every Sector
May 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)In this animated version of her TEDxChange talk, Melinda Gates asks how can Coca-Cola reach everywhere in the developing world, while governments and NGOs struggle to do the same? She calls on our need to learn from innovators in every sector and highlights lessons global health can learn from Co...
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- -: TEDxSoweto - The Brother Moves On
July 9, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The Brother Moves On evokes the spirit of the artist as a mediator between the real, the surreal and the "keeping-it-real" worlds that make life worthy of its own breath. Their music is an eclectic fusion of sounds that could be loosely classified as World Music, is distinctly South African, with...
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- -: Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?
October 7, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing -- mostly unreported -- piece of front-page-worthy good news. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that blots out such vital stories. TEDTalks is a daily video ...
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