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Wanda Diaz Merced: How a blind astronomer found a way to hear the stars

Wanda Diaz Merced studies the light emitted by gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic events in the universe. When she lost her sight and was left without a way to do her science, she had a revelatory insight: the light curves she could no longer see could be translated into sound. Through sonification, she regained mastery over her work, and now ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/wanda_diaz_merced_how_a_blind_astronomer_found_a_way_to_hear_the_stars

Anjan Sundaram | TED Speaker

TED Fellow Anjan Sundaram has spent the last decade writing about 21st century dictatorships, forgotten conflicts and discrimination around the world – from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda and India.
Author, journalist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/anjan_sundaram

An approach to global aid where all are treated as equals

By Lisa Katayama In a developed country where the dialogue around human rights is very charity-minded, it's rare to find young people with visions of engaging rural farmers in developing countries as equals. That's why Tokyo native Doga Makiura stands out. When Doga was 13, he left his home in Japan and enrolled himself in a boarding school in...
Posted February 6, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/a-new-approach-to-global-aid-where-everyone-is-equals

TEDxRugando - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxRugando is a half-day event with an audience of about 100 at Westerwelle Startup Haus, Kigali. Our goal is to bring together Rwanda's best thinkers, innovators, entrepreneurs, professionals, and reformers to give talks that are idea-focused, and on a wide range of subjects, to foster learning, inspiration and wonder – and provoke conversatio...
Event details: Rugando, Ville de Kigali, Rwanda · November 16, 2018
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/27883

TEDxNyarugengeLive: TEDxLive - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxNyarugenge will host a live streaming of Sessions 4 and 5 of TED 2013 (in the evening in Kigali on February 27th), and then we will broadcast a session during breakfast and lunch on February 28th from the archived stream.
Event details: Kigali, Rwanda · February 27, 2013
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/8201

TEDxNyarugenge - an independently organized event

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Event details: Kigali, Rwanda · September 20, 2013
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/10390

TEDxYouth@Gasabo - an independently organized event

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Event details: Kigali, Ville de Kigali, Rwanda · November 19, 2012
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/6617

TEDxKids@Nyarugenge - an independently organized event

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Event details: Kigali, Ville de Kigali, Rwanda · November 21, 2019
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/36013

TEDxICERoad: TEDxICERoad 20200307 - an independently organized event

About this event: Tentative Date
Event details: Kigali, Ville de Kigali, Rwanda · May 29, 2021
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/35260

Shigeru Ban | TED Speaker

Most people look at cardboard tubes and see something fit for the recycling bin. But architect Shigeru Ban turns them into beautiful buildings.
Architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/shigeru_ban

Kevin Njabo | TED Speaker

Kevin Njabo is coordinating the development of UCLA's newly established Congo Basin Institute (CBI) in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Conservation biologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kevin_njabo

TEDxVorobyovyGory - an independently organized event

About this event: That time we watched great video from TED and discissed them. For the first time we chose presentation on TED of GREAT people: 1. Bill Clinton on rebuilding Rwanda 2. Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system 3. Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! 4. Lewis Pugh's mind-shifting Everest swim 5. Richard Branson's life at 30,000 ...
Event details: Moscow, Russia · February 15, 2011
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/2262

Putting the public back in public interest design: The making of an exhibit at TED2013

By Courtney E. Martin and John Cary Editor's note: designer John Cary and journalist Courtney E. Martin are the curatorial brains behind the show, “Public Interest Design: Places, Products, & Processes,” which opened at the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco last October. The entire exhibit has been reinstalled at TED in Long Beach, an...
Posted February 25, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/02/25/putting-the-public-back-in-public-interest-design-2

TEDxNyarugenge - an independently organized event

About this event: How do we show in our lives being bold, what do we do to become brave and what have we done that is ambitious when we look back?
Event details: Kigali, Ville de Kigali, Rwanda · August 9, 2013
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/7839

TEDxNyarugenge - an independently organized event

About this event: Kintsugi: Breaking, Mending, Renewing is a theme that places emphasis on taking risks and exploring the unknown. Talks will defy the norm and draw together conventionally disparate themes, ideas, or techniques. We hope to encourage radical thinking and embrace the discoveries that come from taking a chance to break the conventional and emerge wi...
Event details: Kigali, Ville de Kigali, Rwanda · May 14, 2016
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/19881

TEDxMusanze - an independently organized event

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Event details: Musanze, Rwanda · January 19, 2013
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/6499

TEDxKigali - an independently organized event

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Event details: Kigali, Rwanda · June 18, 2011
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/1332

TEDxALURwanda - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxALURwanda is founded in the spirit of TED’s mission of Ideas Worth Spreading. The student-led organisation’s goal is to create unique experiences composed of interdisciplinary talks and engaging exchanges for all attendees. We aim to provide a compelling experience through sharing ideas that change attitudes by bringing together the African ...
Event details: Kigali, Ville de Kigali, Rwanda · October 24, 2019
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/34644

TEDxNyarugengeWomen: TEDxNyarugengeWomen 20201126 - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDx Nyarugenge Women will come at a critical timing when the world is grappling with covid19, climate change and other social upheavals such as the gender inequality, society injustices and systematic racism. TEDx is the right platform to organise and host speakers who shade light on some of the complex topics and issues and break them down for...
Event details: Kigali, Ville de Kigali, Rwanda · December 4, 2020
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/39984

Playlist: The mystery and wonder of stars (4 talks)

Zoom into the strange wonder and potential of stars in our universe.
Curated by TED · 4 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/the_mystery_and_wonder_of_stars

Somi | TED Speaker

With her lustrous voice and wide-ranging musical curiosity, Somi spins elegant vocal jazz from African legacies.
Vocalist, composer and culturist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/somi_kakoma

Wanda Irving | TED Speaker

Wanda Irving envisions a health care system where no individual is excluded.
Maternal care reformer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/wanda_irving

Playlist: Rethinking how we use the senses (5 talks)

Fascinating and perspective-shifting, these talks demonstrate the ways the 5 senses are being used to build new windows into how we see the world and interact with our surroundings.
Curated by TED · 5 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/rethinking_how_we_use_the_sens

How marathons can heal communities: 5 incredible stories

Yes, a marathon is about running 26.2 miles. But as May El-Khalil describes in today’s talk, a marathon can also be about so much more -- a chance for people to come together and celebrate the human spirit. El-Khalil is the founder of the Beirut Marathon and, in this talk, she describes how a personal tragedy led her to organize the first...
Posted August 16, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/08/16/how-marathons-can-heal-communities-5-incredible-stories

Deborah Scranton | TED Speaker

The director of the award-winning documentary The War Tapes, Deborah Scranton is committed to using new technology to give people power to tell their own stories.
Filmmaker
https://www.ted.com/speakers/deborah_scranton

Up for Debate: Talks from TED and Doha Debates

The world is more interconnected than ever before -- and the need to bridge political and ideological divides has never been more urgent. Now is the time to examine the rules of genuine human engagement, to find common ground for respectful, passionate discourse and to celebrate civility. That's the idea behind TED Salon: Up for Debate, a...
Posted January 18, 2019
https://blog.ted.com/2019/01/18/up-for-debate-talks-from-ted-and-doha-debates

The Next Einstein Forum begins

Why did Albert Einstein have such a unique scientific mind? Because he came from a disadvantaged background, says TED Prize winner Neil Turok. “When new cultures enter science, especially disadvantaged cultures, transformation can happen,” he said today in his opening remarks at the Next Einstein Forum Global Gathering 2016. “I believe th...
Posted March 8, 2016
https://blog.ted.com/2016/03/08/the-next-einstein-forum-begins

A troupe of Rwandan drummers, odes to grandmas and laughing at cerebral palsy: A recap of TEDWomen 2013, Session 3

By Kate Torgovnick, Helen Walters and Emily McManus Session 3 of TEDWomen begins with an empty stage. And then: the noise of drumming breaks through the quiet as four women, draped in shiny blue cloth with gold bands around their foreheads, march onstage carrying with them large, wooden drums. They place them on the red carpet and begin a...
Posted December 5, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/12/05/tedwomen-2013-session-3

Wanda Diaz Merced | TED Speaker

While searching for ways to study stellar radiation without relying on sight, Wanda Diaz Merced has developed a way to represent complex data about our universe as sound.
Sonic astrophysicist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/wanda_diaz_merced

How Malawi is improving a terrible maternal mortality rate through good design

By Courtney E. Martin & John Cary Pregnancy is supposed to be about life. And yet, every day, 800 women across the globe die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. In Malawi, which has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world, a shocking 1 in 36 pregnant women die rather than become proud mothers. ...
Posted January 30, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/01/30/how-malawi-is-improving-a-terrible-maternal-mortality-rate-through-good-design
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