TEDxOU - Beatrice Williamson - The Power of Education
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Beatrice Williamson is a distinguished leader known for her warmth, humor and commitment to learning. She was born in Kisumu, the third largest city in Kenya. From the age of nine years old until her second year of college, Beatrice received a scholarship for education from Swedish missionary Anna Lanson. Education was what Beatrice needed to ri... Read more
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- -: TEDxOU - Beatrice Williamson - The Power of Education
February 21, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Beatrice Williamson is a distinguished leader known for her warmth, humor and commitment to learning. She was born in Kisumu, the third largest city in Kenya. From the age of nine years old until her second year of college, Beatrice received a scholarship for education from Swedish missionary Ann...
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- -: TEDxRC2_PaulConneally_Shifting_aid_from_analog_to_digital.mp4
December 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Paul Conneally is a former journalist turned aid worker, who has spent more than ten years "in the field," with both the ICRC and IFRC, working with communities affected by war and disaster. Conneally is a previous TEDxGeneva talker and was a featured speaker at the LIFT Conference in Geneva in 2...
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- -: TEDxSanJoseCA - Margo McAuliffe - Educating Women and Girls in Kenya
April 18, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Founder of Girls School in Kenya. Margo McAuliffe is a retired high school math teacher who at the age of 69 followed a life-time dream to go to Africa. Margo ended up teaching math to girls in Kenya. Landing in Naivasha, she established Kenya Help (www.kenyahelp.us) a non-profit dedicated to h...
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- -: TEDxOrangeCoast - Harmon Parker - Living in a Walking World
June 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Building Bridges, Bridging Cultures, Bringing Hope. This is the message that Harmon Parker is explaining the transformational power of a simple footbridge and how "Bridges" are a metaphor for many things. There are physical bridges, bridges of hope, bridges of peace -- in a way, we all are a brid...
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- -: TEDxCLE - Chris Clark - Electricity as a Basic Right
July 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Chris graduated from Miami University's Farmer School of Business in 2008 where he majored in management and entrepreneurship. Much to his professors' surprise 6 months later he started Sunflower Solutions where he developed the world's first manual solar tracking technologies which provide up to...
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- -: Joseph Lekuton: A parable for Kenya
February 29, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Joseph Lekuton, a member of Kenya's parliament, tells the story of his own extraordinary education, and then a parable of how Africa itself can grow. His message of hope for Kenya in particular has never been more relevant.
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- -: Erik Hersman: How texting helped Kenyans survive crisis
April 22, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cell phone texts following the 2008 elections, and has evolved to continue saving lives in other countries. TEDTalks is a daily video ...
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- -: Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks
July 19, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished -- and what...
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- -: Authors@Google: Rye Barcott
April 21, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Rye Barcott spoke to Googlers in Mountain View on April 12, 2011 about his book It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace. Rye is introduced by Megan Smith. "In 2000 Rye Barcott spent part of his summer living in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He was a college student heading i...
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- -: TEDxVienna - Alexander Oswald - Why Kenyans do it better
November 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.tedxvienna.at/ http://www.facebook.com/tedxvienna Alexander Oswald is a Senior Marketing Manager with 13 years Management experience in telecommunication and consumer electronics industry. He has worked for global brands in fast changing business environments, whilst having a focus on...
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