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Ameenah Gurib-Fakim | TED Speaker

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim was a university professor and entrepreneur before her election as the first female Head of State of Mauritius.
President of Mauritius
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ameenah_gurib_fakim

Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck: The price of a "clean" internet

Millions of images and videos are uploaded to the internet each day, yet we rarely see shocking and disturbing content in our social media feeds. Who's keeping the internet "clean" for us? In this eye-opening talk, documentarians Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck take us inside the shadowy world of online content moderators -- the people contract...
https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_block_and_moritz_riesewieck_the_price_of_a_clean_internet

Moritz Riesewieck | TED Speaker

Under the label Laokoon, Moritz Riesewieck develops films, theatre productions, essays, lecture performances and radio plays that deal with the question of how our idea of humans and society change or can be transformed in the digital era.
Author, scriptwriter, theater and film director
https://www.ted.com/speakers/moritz_riesewieck

Surprise! You're the president: A conversation with the first female president of Mauritius

(Editor's note, as of Nov. 1, 2019: Ameenah Gurib-Fakim stepped down as president of Mauritius in March 2018, following accusations that she misused a credit card given to her by a nonprofit. Read more here.) You’ve heard of a philosopher king. But what about a biologist president? Ameenah Gurib-Fakim — the biologist who gave the TED T...
Posted June 5, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/06/05/surprise-youre-the-president-a-conversation-with-the-first-female-president-of-mauritius

TEDxPlainesWilhemsLive - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxPlainesWilhemsLive brings TED2017 live (within 12 hours) straight from Vancouver, Canada. The first ever TED conference livestream in Mauritius. We will be streaming one session from TED2017 titled 'Tales of Tomorrow'.
Event details: Plaines Wilhems, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · April 27, 2017
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/23027

TEDxALC - an independently organized event

About this event: Disruptive ideas that will challenge conventional perceptions and uncover unusual approach to creating a better future.
Event details: Pamplemousses, Pamplemousses, Mauritius · May 21, 2016
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/18444

TEDxPlainesWilhems: TEDxPlainesWilhems 20200809 - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxPlainesWilhems will be hosting an 'Evening with TED' this Sunday, 9 August starting at 17:00 Mauritius Time (MUT) (GMT 13:00) available only for 24 hrs on our TEDxPlainesWilhems YouTube Premiere channel. We are delighted to bring this event free to you! These are exclusive pre-recorded talks from the TED2020 virtual conference which haven't...
Event details: Plaines Wilhems, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · August 8, 2020
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/39887

TEDxPlainesWilhems - an independently organized event

About this event: ‘Food for thought’ is defined as anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking, intellectual nourishment, and cognitive content. The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered or learned. It is about learning and grasping new information that you never thought was easy to understand or important to know. About enabling you to...
Event details: Trianon, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · May 20, 2016
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/15078

TEDxPlainesWilhems - an independently organized event

About this event: Event to be postponed to 2015.
Event details: Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · November 19, 2014
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11084

TEDxPlainesWilhems - an independently organized event

About this event: Our world is dynamic and ever changing. We can make it as open and fulfilling as we choose to make it. It starts with the world with us, as individuals - our emotions, aspirations, desires, health & well-being. And we can expand it to include our families, communities, societies, cities, country, environment, nature or our entire planet -...
Event details: Quatre Bornes, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · May 1, 2019
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/32953

TEDxALC - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxALC 2019 is a nonprofit event devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks focused on Technology, Business, Entertainment, Design and Conservation in the African and Mauritian Context. Our theme for this year is "Adapting to Shifting times" so expect all the talks to showcase techniques, methods and experiences in...
Event details: Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius · April 20, 2019
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/33022

TEDxPlainesWilhems - an independently organized event

About this event: Unexplored, un-mapped, un-investigated. To go where few have gone before. After 50 years of independence there is a lot to be proud of. We gift you some of those reasons and invite you to open your hearts and minds. We have attempted to present ideas unexplored in detail before, challenged the unchallenged, a fresh perspective, or a story n...
Event details: Trianon, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · April 26, 2018
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/21196

TEDxALC - an independently organized event

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Event details: Pamplemousses, Pamplemousses, Mauritius · July 14, 2017
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/22788

TEDxYouth@LBIS - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxYouth@LBIS is bringing, for the very first time, a TEDx experience to Le Bocage! As a completely student-organised event we aim to to inspire and give a stage to the youth of Le Bocage through our selection of TEDTalks videos, combined with live speakers to spark deep discussion and connection. We look to engage the entirety of the school co...
Event details: Moka, Moka, Mauritius · October 12, 2017
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/24232

TEDxYouth@LBIS - an independently organized event

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Event details: Moka, Moka, Mauritius · June 7, 2019
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/31719

TEDxYouth@LBIS - an independently organized event

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Event details: Moka, Mauritius · May 14, 2019
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/34479

TEDxPlainesWilhemsLive - an independently organized event

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Event details: Trianon, Mauritius · April 25, 2018
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/29874

TEDxPlainesWilhems - an independently organized event

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Event details: Plaines Wilhems, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · January 31, 2013
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/6340

TEDxTAC - an independently organized event

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Event details: Terre Rouge, Pamplemousses, Mauritius · March 25, 2023
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/51376

TEDxPlainesWilhems: TEDxPlainesWilhems 20200430 - an independently organized event

About this event: These are unprecedented times with the pandemic, war, geopolitical realignments, and climate change. The crisis ball has been set rolling and it feels as if there is no stopping it. We barely seem to catch our breath before another crisis hits us. What can we as individuals and a community do to illuminate our purpose, have clarity in our vis...
Event details: Trianon, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · August 24, 2022
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/35779

TEDxCaudan: TEDxCaudan 20221208 - an independently organized event

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Event details: TBC, Port Louis, Mauritius · May 4, 2023
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/47063

Field Work: A sneak peek of session 4 at TEDGlobal 2014

The speakers in this session can't be contained in a cubicle or desk chair. These bold thinkers -- from an activist surfacing human rights on video to a scientist uncovering the biodiversity of her island nation -- do their work out in the world, surfacing fresh insights as they go. The speakers who’ll appear in this session: Ameenah Gur...
Posted October 8, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/10/08/field-work-a-sneak-peek-of-session-4-at-tedglobal-2014

Meet the translator: Shadia Ramsahye, who brings you TED Talks in Urdu and French

TED Talks are available in 102 languages, from Albanian to Vietnamese, thanks to the tireless work of our volunteer translators. So far, more than 10,000 volunteers have created nearly 45,000 talk translations — and today, the TED Blog brings you a Q&A with one of them. Here, meet French and Urdu translator Shadia Ramsahye. 1.     Where d...
Posted August 12, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/08/12/meet-the-translator-shadia-ramsahye-who-brings-you-ted-talks-in-urdu-and-french

TEDGlobal 2017: Announcing the speaker lineup for our Arusha conference

TEDGlobal 2017 kicks off August 27–30, 2017, in Arusha, Tanzania. Ten years after the last TEDGlobal in Arusha, we'll again gather a community from across the continent and around the world to explore ideas that may propel Africa's next leap — in business, politics and justice, creativity and entrepreneurship, science and tech. Today, we're t...
Posted July 20, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/07/20/tedglobal-2017-announcing-the-speaker-lineup-for-our-arusha-conference

Translation as language preservation: Why a Kazakh journalist is translating TED Talks

By Krystian Aparta When Kazakh journalist Asqat Yerkimbay learned about TED’s Open Translation Project, he realized it could be instrumental in reviving his native tongue. Under Soviet rule, communicating in Kazakh became viewed as a sign of ignorance, and although it regained its standing as the national language after Kazakhstan declare...
Posted June 5, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/06/05/why-a-kazakh-journalist-is-translating-ted-talks

From the Mascarene Islands to Syria, reports from the field: A recap of session 4 of TEDGlobal 2014

The theme of Session 4 is Field Work -- and we're hearing from people who get outside, who work in the field and hear what's really going on. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim is a professor at the University of Mauritius, and she’s here this morning to show us five plants unique to where she works and lives: the Mascarene Islands. She introduces us to...
Posted October 8, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/10/08/a-recap-of-session-4-of-tedglobal-2014

Manifestos and destinies: Notes from Session 8 of TEDGlobal 2017

It’s the last session, can you believe it? This is the part where we declare our intent to take all we have learned and proceed with purpose to change the world. But first, a few big statements from inspiring speakers to wind us up -- the kind of statements that will send us out in fighting shape, ready to take on any challenge. Ladies an...
Posted August 30, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/08/30/manifestos-and-destinies-notes-from-session-8-of-tedglobal-2017

The surprising plant-fungi relationship that could help feed us, even as the world heats up

How can you protect crops against global warming? One answer: find the secrets of plants that already thrive in the most punishing climates, says microbiologist Rusty Rodriguez. When we visualize how climate change will affect our world, many of us picture melting glaciers, waterlogged streets, blistering heat, dried-up lakes and reservoirs, an...
Posted August 9, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/the-surprising-plant-fungi-relationship-that-could-help-feed-us-even-as-the-world-heats-up

The bloodless blood test: Fellows Friday with Myshkin Ingawale

Myshkin Ingawale (watch his TED Talk) grew up observing his mother provide healthcare to people in need. Now, with his team at Biosense, he's invented the ToucHb, a low-cost, needle-free portable device that tests pregnant women in remote rural areas for anemia -- a preventable yet major cause of death in childbirth around the world. Why is a...
Posted November 30, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/11/30/the-bloodless-blood-test-fellows-friday-with-myshkin-ingawale

Meet the TED2012 Fellows!

Today, TED is thrilled to announce the 25 new members of 2012's TED Fellows class and 12 new Senior Fellows. A Lebanese open-source hardware inventor, a French computational architect and the founder of Skillshare.com are among 25 members of 2012's class of new TED Fellows. Twelve new Senior Fellows from seven countries, selected for two mor...
Posted October 25, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/10/25/meet-the-ted2012-fellows
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