Changing the world with TED

Once a year in Monterey, California the TED Conference is held.  The purpose of these conferences (now also semi-annually all over the globe) is to bring together global leaders in science, arts, politics, global issues, architecture, music and other fields and to “exchange ideas of incalculable value.”  Many of the speakers are recorded and their presentations are shown on the TED website under TED Talks.

A number of talks included:

• Jeff Skoll makes movies that make change
• Patrick Awuah on educating leaders
• William Kamkwamba on building a windmill
• Will Wright makes toys that make worlds
• Emily Oster flips our thinking on AIDS in Africa
• Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth
• James Howard Kunstler dissects suburbia

Big ideas do end up as a result of TED and every year TED award winners are granted three wishes to change the world. Check out these winners and their ideas.

One of the TED Talks on YouTube:

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By sstadum in International Development, Philanthropy, Technology on August 24, 2007