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Tackling the MDGs: A playlist for TEDxChange
This Monday, Sept. 20, TED and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation bring us TEDxChange: a chance to evaluate the UN Millennium Development Goals, the progress that has been made, and the long, yet optimistic road ahead.
The Millennium Development Goals include:
Eradicating poverty and hunger
Achieving universal primary education
P...
Posted September 18, 2010
TEDxTemeculaChange - an independently organized event
About this event: TEDxChange 2013 – April 3
Convened by Melinda French Gates.
Theme: Positive Disruption
Disruption is usually unwelcome. It represents conflict, chaos, and potential danger. We discourage disruptive behavior in our homes and our societies, often favoring passivity and compliance.
But disruption can be a positive – sometimes vital – ca...
Event details: Temecula, California, United States · April 4, 2013
TEDxChange: Learn more about the Millennium Development Goals
On September 20, live in New York and webcast around the world, TEDxChange will examine the UN's Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs. (Watch TEDxDubai's video, above, for a preview.)
Established 10 years ago in September 2000, the eight MDGs are an audacious set of goals for changing the world -- with an equally audacious target of 2015...
Posted August 24, 2010
TEDxTheHague: Let There Be Light - an independently organized event
About this event: You are cordially invited to the next TEDxTheHague salon! Our March edition — Let There Be Light — is curated by TEDxTheHague regular Richard Pearson. Richard writes:
"Light is how it all started. It travels so fast it is impossible to comprehend. We are at the business end of a light beam. It has the ability to pass through the eye and inst...
Event details: The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands · March 8, 2013
TEDxWoodsHoleChange: The Big Picture - an independently organized event
About this event: TEDxChange 2012 is a TEDx event co-organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and TED. Convened by Melinda French Gates and hosted by Chris Anderson, TEDxChange will focus on issues surrounding global health and development. TEDxChange type events are TEDx events hosted around the live webcast of TEDxChange, and also feature local spea...
Event details: Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States · April 5, 2012
Foreign Policy releases its list of the 100 Top Global Thinkers, including 17 TED speakers
Foreign Policy magazine has picked its annual list of the 100 Top Global Thinkers and, nestled among their ranks, are many a TED Speaker. Below, watch the talks from those who appear on the 2012 list, as well as what number on the list they occupy.
3. Bill Clinton talks “rebuilding Rwanda” and Hillary Clinton makes a surprise appearance a...
Posted November 29, 2012
Enter GOOD's poster contest to win a trip to TEDxChange
On September 20, TEDxChange will take a focused look at the UN's Millennium Development Goals. Established 10 years ago, the eight goals are:
1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
2: Achieve universal primary education.
3: Promote gender equality and empower women.
4: Reduce child mortality.
5: Improve maternal health.
6: Combat ...
Posted August 4, 2010
Apply now to be a TED2019 Fellow
The TED Fellows program is turning ten years old next year, and we are looking for our most ambitious class yet. We select people from every discipline and every country to be Fellows, and we give them support to scale their dreams and scale their impact.
Apply to be a TED Fellow by August 26.
Who are TED Fellows? Fellows are individua...
Posted June 26, 2018
Vaccines via a patch: Mark Kendall at TEDGlobal 2013
Mark Kendall has a new medical invention that will make anyone with a fear of needles very happy: the Nanopatch, a tiny square (smaller than a postage stamp) that can deliver a dose of vaccine. But beyond solving needle-phobia, the Nanopatch could solve many other problems that now keep vaccines from being completely effective.
Kendall, a...
Posted June 12, 2013
Voices of violence: Photojournalist Jon Lowenstein captures narratives of violence in Chicago's South Side
What is the effect of violence on a life's narrative? TED Fellow and photojournalist Jon Lowenstein has lived in the South Side of Chicago for about a decade -- first working as a teacher, photographer and community liaison at an elementary school and subsequently engaging with his African American neighbors to document life in this rapidly ch...
Posted September 16, 2013
Into the fray, undaunted: Notes from TED Fellows Session 2 at TED2018
To commence TED Fellows Session 2, multi-hyphenate Paul Rucker takes the stage with his cello. (Spoiler alert: you will see him later in this writeup showcasing another artform.) Inspired by his mother, who learned to play the organ through a mail-order course, Rucker taught himself how to play this instrument. But right here on the TED Fell...
Posted April 10, 2018
Gallery: Behind-the-scenes as TEDGlobal 2013 draws to a close
From an unexpected reason why malaria has not been eradicated to a bold argument for why businesses can be a powerful force in solving the world's problems, TEDGlobal 2013 brought so many opportunities for us to "Think Again," as citizens of a global world. Here, some incredible images taken on site during days 4 and 5 of the conference in Edinb...
Posted June 17, 2013
Rethink the way we run charities: A useful reading list
Dan Pallotta has an unconventional view of nonprofits: To innovate and really make an impact, he thinks they should function with business-minded acumen. Says Pallotta (TED Talk: The way we think about charity is dead wrong), "You want to make $50 million selling violent video games to kids, go for it. We'll put you on the cover of Wired magazin...
Posted July 7, 2014
TEDxConejoChange - an independently organized event
About this event: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a strategic partner of the TEDx program, and together we teamed up for a very special project called TEDxChange -- an initiative devoted to ideas worth spreading in the areas of global health and development. The TEDxChange team works with TEDx organizers around the world to help facilitate meaningful d...
Event details: Thousand Oaks, California, United States · April 5, 2012
20+ resources for better giving and living a more altruistic life
Every day, most of us do something morally indefensible -- we go about our lives without sending help to the 6.9 million children under the age of 5 who will die this year from poverty-related disease. In today’s talk, philosopher Peter Singer makes the case that ignoring these kids is as inhumane as ignoring a child who's been hit by a car on...
Posted May 20, 2013
Jacqueline Novogratz on the Pakistan floods and our shared humanity
Founder of Acumen Fund Jacqueline Novogratz recently visited Pakistan (along with TED Curator Chris Anderson) to offer what help she could and work with local friends on their relief efforts. On returning to New York, she gave a short talk at TED HQ and shared the stories of the Pakistani people she met along with a profoundly touching video cre...
Posted September 20, 2010
A look at TED, from 1984 through the present
The first TED was held in 1984, the year George Orwell imagined in his classic novel. The second was held in 1990. In 2006, TED Talks were offered online for the first time, free to anyone across the world who wanted to watch. In 2009, TED moved to its current home in Long Beach, California.
As we prepare for TED2013 -- the anticipation of th...
Posted February 22, 2013
Why having a Plan B can sometimes backfire
Research has found that having a backup plan might actually sabotage your efforts toward Plan A. Before you set up your safety net, read these lessons from women scientists.
Having a fallback plan is generally considered a good thing. When it comes to applying for colleges, jobs or mortgages, we’ve probably all heard the advice, “Don’t put all ...
Posted June 22, 2017
How to create more medical breakthroughs? Get everyone on board
Here's how to encourage new medical innovation, says genetic researcher Geoffrey Siwo: Join forces with the people who need innovation the most, all over the world.
When he was a young biology student in Njoro, Kenya, with a big idea but zero resources, the genetic scientist Geoffrey Siwo once tested and confirmed a radical idea on HIV drug res...
Posted May 27, 2016
Why I document the often violent and traumatic daily lives of others: Fellows Friday with photographer Jon Lowenstein
Social violence in Guatemala, Mexican and Central American migrant communities in the United States, the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, children with cerebral malaria in Uganda -- for the past decade, photographer Jon Lowenstein has been documenting the often violent and traumatic daily lives of individuals and communities living at the ...
Posted December 6, 2013
TED Radio Hour takes a look in the crystal ball
Take a trip back to the future with this week's TED Radio Hour, as six TED speakers share their prophecies for what lies ahead. From curing cancer to self-driving cars, these TEDsters offer exciting visions for the future, but not without cautionary warnings.
The episode starts with a walk down memory lane with Nicholas Negroponte, who made s...
Posted September 13, 2013
Mark Ronson makes a cameo, Roxane Gay and Adam Grant discuss the pros and cons of social media, and much more
Please enjoy your roundup of TED-related news:
This one’s for the boys. Mark Ronson takes a break from making music to have some fun in Charli XCX’s video for “Boys.” You’ll find him (suavely) combing his hair, amid scenes of other male celebs, such as Wiz Khalifa, Riz Ahmed and Joe Jonas having a pillow fight or cuddling with puppies, in...
Posted August 9, 2017
This is a do-it-yourself Zika test
How should we start to tackle the Zika virus? MIT's José Gómez-Márquez and Lee Gehrke share their bright idea.
Not enough is known about the Zika virus, but with links to brain inflammation and microcephaly, it’s clear that it has devastating effects -- and it isn’t going away any time soon. And there’s another issue: The medical community isn’...
Posted April 26, 2016
Hope speaks: Fellows Friday with Uzodinma Iweala
Prize-winning novelist and MD Uzodinma Iweala traveled to Nigeria to talk to everyday people, doctors, government officials, activists, sex workers, even Femi Kuti -- Fela Kuti’s son -- about HIV/AIDS. Our Kind of People is his highly personal account of the AIDS epidemic and its transformative effect on love, relationships and humanity.
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Posted June 8, 2012
Mosquito Week, casting “Star Wars: Episode VII,” a dolphin’s first word, and the linguistic use of “totally”
Below, some intriguing news highlights from the TED community over the past month:
You’ve heard of Shark Week, but what about Mosquito Week? Bill Gates declares it a thing on his blog. (Watch the legendary talk in which Bill released mosquitos into the TED audience.)
David Binder cleaned up in the Tony nominations today. His revival of...
Posted April 29, 2014
Raj Panjabi’s big idea for rural health care
I wish that you will help me recruit the largest army of community health workers the world has ever known, by creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, empower and connect.
The plan
A billion people around the world lack access to health care, simply because they live too far from a doctor or clinic. For them, getting m...
TEDxYouth@GabesChange: Positive Disruption - an independently organized event
About this event: TEDxChange is an event created out of a partnership between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the TEDx program. It is an initiative devoted to ideas worth spreading in the areas of global health and development. The TEDxChange team works with TEDx organizers around the world to help facilitate meaningful discussions on topics including...
Event details: GABES, Tunisia · April 7, 2013
Bjorn Lomborg is still thinking about "evil economics"
In 2005, Bjorn Lomborg bounced onto the TED stage in Monterey to challenge the audience to think about "the biggest problems in the world." Author of the book The Skeptical Environmentalist and the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre, Lomborg promptly advised the somewhat startled audience to forget about global warming. If we really wan...
Posted July 8, 2013
You Tell Us: What would you do for the world with $1 million?
Did you know that you -- as in, anyone -- can nominate a visionary leader for this year’s TED Prize? Do you have a mentor with an incredible track record? A former teacher with a big idea for change? A colleague doing incredible work that could reach new heights if given more resources? A friend with the ability to inspire collaborative acti...
Posted August 8, 2012