- -: Jarreth Merz: Filming democracy in Ghana
September 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Jarreth Merz, a Swiss-Ghanaian filmmaker, came to Ghana in 2008 to film the national elections. What he saw there taught him new lessons about democracy -- and about himself. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where th...
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- -: TEDxMadrid - Francisco Polo - Actuable
October 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Francisco Polo, founder of Actuable, a very successful spanish platform for grassroot democracy, and Best Social Entrepreneur 2010, explains why everyone can change the world. Everything starts with empathy: seeing someone suffering and inmediately feeling the urge to change the situation. And t...
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- -: Bill Clinton-Remarks to the People of Ghana (March 23, 1998)
August 5, 2010 (over 13 years ago)President Clinton describes the importance of a combined effort between the United States and Africa to facilitate the growth of democracy, peace and prosperity within the continent.
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- -: Porter and Mykleby: A Grand Strategy for the Nation
November 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Naval Captain Porter and Col. Mykleby of the Marines, military strategists working at the highest level of government, present highlights from their paper, "A National Strategic Narrative." Their ideas—less military force, more social capital and more sustainable practices in energy and agricultu...
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- -: Anne-Marie Slaughter: Lego World
November 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Anne-Marie Slaughter shares her insights on the transformation of state and non-state actors. Whereas we used to exist within a world of nation-states, billiard balls knocking against one another, we now live in a network of modular, ad hoc organizations—both governmental and non-governmental. We...
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- -: The Egyptian revolution on film
November 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Shima'a Helmy joins filmmakers and friends Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton onstage at PopTech to talk about their collaboration on an upcoming documentary film, If. The film explores what it's like being a young revolutionary through the eyes of four different Egyptian women, including Helmy.
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- -: Unity Dow: Rethinking Africa
November 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Unity Dow, a lawyer, high court justice in Botswana and novelist, describes seismic generational shifts between pre- and post-independence Africans. She asks how the identity shifts of the next generation will change the dynamics of the world stage and what that means for Americans, many of whom ...
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- -: Chomsky on Democracy in America
June 3, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Noam Chomsky explains why "that feeling of helplessness" and "impotence" is the natural response to American democracy.
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- -: TEDxWinnipeg - Shuvaloy Majumdar - Freedom: Connecting Citizens to State, Citizen and Idea
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Shuvaloy Majumdar, Visiting Foreign Policy Scholar, University of British Columbia Liu Institute for Global Issues Freedom: Connecting Citizens to State, Citizen and Idea I never thought there would be a time when a car bomb would sound as normal as sirens near a fire house. Or the scream of an...
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- -: TEDxDiliman - Roby Alampay - Freedom is Our Competitive Advantage
November 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Roby Alampay, former executive director of the Southeast Asia Press Alliance, a regional NGO dedicated to the promotion of journalist rights, argues that freedom has tangible economic benefits that the Philippines undervalues and underappreciates. Freedom is the one thing the country does better...
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