About this event: Our theme this time is centered around the three big issues in Africa at the moment…. INEQUALITY is growing, so that is the problem. XENOPHOBIA is increasing, and that is the symptom… GOOD GOVERNANCE is much needed. That is the solution. So in short we have themed this; INEQUALITY, XENOPHOBIA AND THE CHALLENGES OF GOOD GOVERNANCE

But these 3 alternative solutions could be faster ways to achieve increased opportunity, prosperity and equality. Universal basic income (UBI) is a provocative idea that’s enjoying a huge surge of attention right now. The concept is simple: a government would provide unconditional payments (proposed amounts range from $10,000 to $25,000 a year)...

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LaToya Ruby Frazier focuses her camera lens on working class families, exploring themes of family, inequality, health care and environmental racism.

Robb Willer's political research has investigated various topics, including economic inequality, racial prejudice, masculine overcompensation and Americans' views of climate change.

Richard Wilkinson was one of the first people to train in epidemiology from a background in the social sciences rather than medicine.

Kriti Sharma creates AI technology to help address some of the toughest social challenges of our time -- from domestic violence to sexual health and inequality.

Michelle Kuo believes in the power of reading to connect us with one another, creating a shared universe.

We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2011, July 2011, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Durat...

It's been a hard week for many Americans, as the Boston bombings continue to raise more and more questions. Here is some weekend reading as you await answers. A poignant ode to the city of Boston, its annual marathon and the victims of the April 15 bombings. [NY Review of Books Blog] Far, far away in another American city, income inequalit...

Dr. Dana Kanze is an assistant professor of organizational behavior at London Business School, where she applies behavioral insights to understand sources of labor market inequality.

Khalida Brohi (TED Talk: How I work to protect women from honor killings) grew up traveling between two very different parts of Pakistan: the bustling city of Karachi, where her parents moved so that she and her sisters could go to school, and a small village in Balochistan, where her family has its roots. Brohi got a modern education, and also ...

TED Fellow Jess Kutch is the cofounder of Coworker.org, a nonprofit that helps people join together to improve their jobs and workplaces.

Marily Oppezzo studies how the movement of the body can affect the movement of the mind.

Jody Williams won a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to eradicate landmines. Now she’s teaming up with five other female peace laureates to empower women to fight violence, injustice and inequality.

About this event: Join the TEDx Society for it's FINAL event, discussing the topic of income inequality. Existing and perspective members are welcome to attend this FREE event, all we ask is you bring some food to share during stimulating discussion. Please get in contact if you have any other questions!

In 2009, epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett published the book The Spirit Level, making a bold case that economic inequality within a society, the size of the gap between rich and poor, has corrosive effects from the bottom of society right up to the top. Wilkinson spoke about their book and research this summer at TEDGlobal ...

TED Fellow Anab Jain imagines and builds future worlds we can experience in the present moment. By creating new ways of seeing, being and acting, she inspires and challenges us to look critically at the decisions and choices we make today.

About this event: The first TEDx event held in Guyana was the TEDxRobbstown talk which was held on December 28th, 2015 at the Theatre Guild. The event featured speakers whose topics ranged from sexual and reproductive rights, decolonising Caribbean literature and the adverse effects of religious fundamentalism in Guyana/Caribbean. The common threads weaved throu...

About this event: Global economic trends, the development and accessibility towards modern and sophisticated technology, also the dynamic way of life, these are all contributors towards the raging battle for the domination of resources and thus economic trends and economic fluctuations and thus the economic inequality. These and other questions will be discussed...

About this event: Edward Snowden once said that “Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. A...

Chris Anderson invited Bill and Melinda Gates to the TED2014 stage for what turned out to be a personal and charming Q&A. This is an edited version of that conversation. Anderson began with the provocation, "On the basis that a picture's worth a thousand words, I asked them to dig from their archive to explain what they've done." The firs...

About this event: Edward Snowden once said that “Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. A...

About this event: The idea of TEDxAUP is to look for solutions of current problems that the world already knows exist. As such problems we identify global warming, inequality (gender, racial, ethnic, social, etc.), the future of the arts and sciences as well as successful achievement of personal growth. We feel like our society has to confront all these issues, s...

About this event: Have you ever thought about the impact of media on our emotional health? Or about the connection between slang and gender inequality? These are only some of the topics you would hear discussed during our next event. Our speakers will look beneath the surface of these complicated issues and offer you their perspectives and possible solutions. The...

By Michael Painter.  For some of us, it's easy to choose to be healthy. We can’t control whether disease or accidents strike, but we can decide where we live and what we eat, as well as if, when and how much we’ll exercise. Some of us live in a culture of health — a time and place where, for the most part, we have the real hope and opportu...

“Let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism. Let us pick up our books and our pens, and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.” These were the words spoken by 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai, above, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012 for advocating for girls’...

About this event: Just another brick....in the wall? on the path? in the way? could bring down the wall? "Just another brick...." aims to provide the opportunity to explore a deeper understanding of the world - their world, the world around them and the world they are contributing to. Supported by external and alumni speakers, Preshil students will explore ra...

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...

Just a few of the intriguing headlines involving members of the TED community this week: The cascading effect of small lies. Tali Sharot is the senior author on a paper published in Nature Neuroscience that sheds light on the possible slippery-slope effect of telling small, self-serving lies. Using an fMRI scanning device to monitor the a...