- -: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Let's have a deeper discussion on aid
August 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former finance minister of Nigeria, sums up four days of intense discussion on aid versus trade on the closing day of TEDGlobal 2007, and shares a personal story explaining her own commitment to this cause. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the bes...
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- -: Euvin Naidoo: Africa as an investment
August 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com South African investment banker Euvin Naidoo explains why investing in Africa can make great business sense. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk ...
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- -: Vusi Mahlasela: "Woza"
August 21, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com After Vusi Mahlasela's 3-song set at TEDGlobal, the audience wouldn't let him go. His encore, "Woza," showcases his brilliant guitar playing and multilingual lyrics. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's...
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- -: The TED Fellows program
May 22, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)The TED Fellows program helps world-changing innovators from around the globe become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities. Fellows are drawn from many disciplines that reflect the diversity of TED's members: technology, enter...
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- -: Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
July 28, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work. TEDTalks is a daily vide...
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- -: Sugata Mitra's new experiments in self-teaching
September 7, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Indian education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to...
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- -: Rebecca MacKinnon: Let's take back the Internet!
July 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com In this powerful talk from TEDGlobal, Rebecca MacKinnon describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom at its core, rather than control? She believes the internet ...
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- -: Maajid Nawaz: A global culture to fight extremism
July 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Why do transnational extremist organizations succeed where democratic movements have a harder time taking hold? Maajid Nawaz, a former Islamist extremist, asks for new grassroots stories and global social activism to spread democracy in the face of nationalism and xenophobia. A...
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- -: Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex
July 15, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Economics writer Tim Harford studies complex systems -- and finds a surprising link among the successful ones: they were built through trial and error. In this sparkling talk from TEDGlobal 2011, he asks us to embrace our randomness and start making better mistakes. TEDTalks i...
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- -: Nadia Al-Sakkaf: See Yemen through my eyes
July 18, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com As political turmoil in Yemen continues, the editor of the Yemen Times, Nadia Al-Sakkaf, talks at TEDGlobal with host Pat Mitchell. Al-Sakkaf's independent, English-language paper is vital for sharing news -- and for sharing a new vision of Yemen and of that country's women as ...
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