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I'm passionate about

Finding and providing opportunities to needy people.

An idea worth spreading

January 2010 My TEDx Yonsei Talk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67DwZ6Tb0JY (A letter from Sudan).
My TEDxSeoul Talk November 2010 - Anour F.A. Dafa-Alla - I am a TED Volunteer Translator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgWBKoVCslA TEDxBerlin Talk: Crossing your inner borders www.tedxberlin.de/tedxberlin-2012-crossing-borders-anwar-dafa-alla-crossing-your-inner-borders

Talk to me about

Sudan, Volunteer Work, Community Development, Multidisciplinary Research, enriching university's class rooms with TED-like discussions :)

People don't know that I'm good at

Creating scenarios :)

My TED Story

My DB/Bioinformatics lab mate (Ibrahim Musa) sent me a link to "Peter Donnelly shows how stats fool juries" talk as we were researching Data Mining related stuff. Later I watched the next Einstein is African talk by "Neil Turok". I fall in love to this place "TED" and was more than glad to find a way to participate actively in translating TED talks into Arabic and Share them . So, Yes We Can.

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• A comment on Conversation: Our TEDxKhartoum 2013 theme is ""Knowledge Into Action". We are asking how can we put together some scenes or images to visualize our theme?

  Apr 28 2013: See the TEDxKhartoum 2013 event registration :
  http://tedxkhartoum.com/site/contributions-explained-tedxkhartoum-2013-knowldge-into-action/#comment-92
  
  We asked our attendees to donate/contribute "Knowledge" instead of the traditional way of ticket->seat
  
  In this Animation, developed by our video production team, the explain how these contributions will help enriching the Sudanese content over Internet:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYzkl95z8ek
  
  Br

• A reply on Conversation: Our TEDxKhartoum 2013 theme is ""Knowledge Into Action". We are asking how can we put together some scenes or images to visualize our theme?

  Apr 14 2013: Very useful :)
  Thank you Kendl!

• A reply on Conversation: Our TEDxKhartoum 2013 theme is ""Knowledge Into Action". We are asking how can we put together some scenes or images to visualize our theme?

  Apr 14 2013: Hi Bob,
  Thank you for the good wishes.
  This film project (based on TEDxKhartoum 2012 talk), will be launched at our event, please take a look here:
  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1551224532/our-sudan-a-short-film-to-inspire-a-new-generation
  
  We are doing our best to help our friends change their mindset about the people (country). And to avoid the danger of a single story, you saw that talk, didn't you?
  
  Br
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  A reply on Conversation: Our TEDxKhartoum 2013 theme is ""Knowledge Into Action". We are asking how can we put together some scenes or images to visualize our theme?

  Apr 14 2013: Thanks my friend Tudor for the prompt response.
  I remember listening to Ramy Nasser (TEDxWaterloo) during the TEDxSummit talking about the transition of TEDx itself from 1- Inspiration to 2- Networking (happened at the Summit for the TEDx community itself), to 3- Taking Actions right now.
  I deeply thought about what "Actions" might be?

• A comment on Conversation: Our TEDxKhartoum 2013 theme is ""Knowledge Into Action". We are asking how can we put together some scenes or images to visualize our theme?

  Apr 14 2013: Personally, I consider all TED Initiatives as "Knowledge Into Action" starting from putting TEDTalks free to the world, the Open Translation Project, the TEDx initiative, TED-ED, TED books, TED Prize and the way it evolves especially the "Wish".
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  A comment on Talk: Roger Ebert: Remaking my voice

  Apr 5 2013: R.I.P

• A reply on Conversation: Re-defining privacy!

  Jan 24 2013: Thanks Lejan for your input...
  
  Sometimes one "breaks into other peoples privacy" without knowing from the beginning... in our extended family cultures... questions like " when are you going to have a baby? for newly married couples is normal... in South Korea where I lived for awhile, asking about your age might be the first question to ask, because it determines the type of language I'll use to communicate (Senior vs. Junior) ...
  
  I couldn't get the reason of why breaking into 'Diary of Anne Frank' privacy? Do you mean that sometimes knowing a certain piece of information "matters to you" breaks the "privacy" charter?
  
  Thanks

• A comment on Conversation: Re-defining privacy!

  Jan 24 2013: For the good of science, I put my friend's entry on Facebook:
  DNA of a person alone can not identify them. Unless you have other DNA that reflects their relatives, race or a DNA that you have collected from them earlier ...etc. Identification in this case is done by comparison rather than by conclusion.
  
  The problem begins when say for instance an insurance company mines your DNA to tailor your premiums such that they don't lose by covering you for illnesses you are going to definitely develop. This is stigmatization based on DNA.
  
  Other problem start when DNA is used to profile people based on their ancestry.
  
  No one can protect their DNA by the way, privacy probably stops here. Shreds of human cells, hair, saliva, lip prints on a mug..etc can all be readily available sources to collect someone's DNA, the tiniest bit is enough. What is inhibitory to this DNA analysis becoming a routine practice is the expenses to run the tests and the interpretations afterwards."
  
  And this paper:
  " On our understanding and misunderstandings of privacy read on the "I got nothing to hide paradox"
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565 "
  
  - Moon

• A comment on Conversation: Re-defining privacy!

  Jan 24 2013: I just participated in translating "Ellen Jorgensen: Biohacking -- you can do it, too" into Arabic. Ellen has signed up to Harvard study about making her own DNA sequence available online. What else is more Personally Identifying than your DNA? I don't have my DNA sequence in my Gmail or Facebook!
  So, again, my question is: What is privacy? and my call: let's re-define it .

• A reply on Conversation: Re-defining privacy!

  Jan 24 2013: Thanks Salim for your input.
  Yes, Privacy is a function of "Time,location, culture,context, (what else?)..."...I love this... please continute the conversation.