- -: 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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- -: TEDxCasablanca - Fadhila Brahimi - Les frontières
December 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized even...
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- -: Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature!
December 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Every day, we use materials from the earth without thinking, for free. But what if we had to pay for their true value: would it make us more careful about what we use and what we waste? Think of Pavan Sukhdev as nature's banker -- assessing the value of the Earth's assets. Eye-...
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- -: TEDxBRISTOL 2011 - WENDY STEPHENSON - THE CONVERGING WORLD
December 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)ABOUT TEDxBRISTOL: TEDxBristol 2011 took place on Thursday 8th September 2011, at the MSHED Museum, in Bristol, South West England. Find more of our talks, the videos, the audio and the TEDxBristol experience, online at: http://www.tedxbristol.com ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Speaker Profile: http://t...
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- -: TEDxBasqueCountry - Sylvain Zimmer - Financer la création
April 10, 2011 (about 13 years ago)CTO Jamendo Musicien, geek et entrepreneur : il était tout naturel pour Sylvain de créer Jamendo en 2004, qui est devenu depuis la plus grande plateforme de musique libre et gratuite au monde. L'exploration de nouveaux modèles économiques permettant de financer la création à l'ère d'Internet est ...
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- -: TEDxIrie -Professor Carolyn Cooper - A Speck of Greatness: Repositioning Brand Jamaica.
April 11, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Professor Carolyn Cooper is a Jamaican author and literary scholar who has written extensively on cultural politics in Caribbean literature and popular culture - particularly reggae and dancehall music. She is the author of two books - Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and the 'Vulgar' Body of...
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- -: TEDxTempleU - Jean Michel - Peace and Love Proclaimers: Youth for a Change
April 23, 2011 (about 13 years ago)JEAN MICHEL HABINEZA was both and raised in Rwanda. In 2006, as a secondary school student, he initiated the 'Walk for Survivors' in remembrance of those who perished in the genocide, gathering more than 1000 students and $3000 that was used to start an education program. He later founded the P...
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- -: TEDxTempleU - Mohamed Niang - Malo Traders LLC: The Harvest Fairy
April 23, 2011 (about 13 years ago)MOHAMED ALI NIANG is a senior International Business and Entrepreneurship major at Temple University, with minors in Economics and Corporate Sustainability. His efforts both in and out of the classroom have been widely recognized: he was part of the winning team at the 2010 Center for Internatio...
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- -: TEDxIrie - Wayne Marshall - Jamaican musical innovations, foundation for modern cultural practice
May 2, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Topic: How Jamaican musical innovations have created a foundation for modern cultural practice Wayne Marshall is an ethnomusicologist focusing on the popular music of the Caribbean and the Americas, and their circulation in the wider world, with particular attention to digital technologies. Curr...
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- -: TEDxSalem-Aarti C Rajaratnam-Creating a million smiles through Holistic education
May 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Aarti C Rajaratnam, instrumental in designing innovative classrooms and curriculum models in India and abroad, is a Masters in Clinical Psychology with specialization in Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health from the University of Delhi. Aarti's mission in life is to redefine education systems a...
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