TEDxAddis - Negusu Aklilu - Is A Green Ethiopia Possible?
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Negusu Aklilu is Director of the Forum for Environment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has been working as an environmental campaigner for the last 15 years and has played a leading role in advocating for environmental rights in Ethiopia and beyond. He led some successful campaigns at home and two campaigns in the run-up to the Copenhagen Climate C... Read more
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- -: TEDxAddis - Negusu Aklilu - Is A Green Ethiopia Possible?
August 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Negusu Aklilu is Director of the Forum for Environment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has been working as an environmental campaigner for the last 15 years and has played a leading role in advocating for environmental rights in Ethiopia and beyond. He led some successful campaigns at home and two c...
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- -: TEDxAddis - Jelani Nelson - Streaming Algorithms
August 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Jelani Nelson recently completed his doctoral studies in the Theory of Computation group at CSAIL in MIT, where he also completed undergraduate studies in mathematics and computer science (2005), and received an M.Eng. In computer science (2006). Jelani's research has mostly focused on the develo...
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- -: TEDxAddis - Eden Gelan - The Little Thing That We Do
August 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Eden graduated from Haramaya University with a BA in Law, but her desire to help the underprivileged and give voice to the voiceless has been expressed outside of her academic descipline. Shorty after graduation she co-founded an NGO, Beza Community Development Association (BCDA), which empowers...
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- -: TEDx Addis - Fatima Kassam - Africa, Transitioning From Managing Crisis To Managing Risk
August 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Fatima Kassam currently serves as a Special Advisor to the African Union (AU) on the African Risk Capacity (ARC) project. ARC is a project of the African Union to create an African-owned, AU-led, stand-alone financial entity that would provide participating AU Member States with immediate resou...
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- -: Dinaw Mengestu - "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears"
March 30, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=784 Ethiopian-born author Dinaw Mengestu reads an excerpt from his novel, "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears." ----- Dinaw Mengestu talks about "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears." Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, and im...
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Eleni Gabre-Madhin: Ethiopian Economics
June 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)Eleni Gabre-Madhin talks of Africa's readiness to pursue happiness through their agricultural economy with the help of the global market.
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Bono : Bono's Call to Action for Africa
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)Bono expresses three wishes to TED that will help Africa move out from the slump their continent has been in economically, socially and medically.
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Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child, Two Years On
December 1, 2007 (over 16 years ago)In this talk, Tech visionary Nicholas Negroponte gives us an update on the One Laptop per Child project. He first gives a background on how this idea started. He then shows us how these devices are being distributed, narrates some of the difficulties they've encountered, and reports the positive ...
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