Twittering TEDGlobal
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Who is blogging from TEDGlobal 2007 in Tanzania?
Two dozen bloggers from around Africa and elsewhere are covering the sessions and the between-session action at TEDGlobal this week. We’ll be sharing excerpts of the blogs’ coverage on this site, and we encourage you to dive into the blogs below, both during and after the conference — many bloggers say they are waiting until […]
TEDGlobal 2007 Session 7: Tales of Invention
Day Three of TEDGlobal began with a series of pointed questions … “Where are the women inventors?” Bola Olabisi asked, as she walked around an international inventors fair, where she’d come on a slow afternoon in London, while pregnant with her fourth child and in need of distraction. She walked the hall all day, and […]
Day Two in Quotes [TEDGlobal 2007]
“Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth” — Acumen Fund CEO/Founder Jacqueline Novogratz “What we call governments are vampire states, which suck the economic vitality out of the people.” — Economist George Ayittey “I want to make Africans rich. If you make Africans rich, they’ll be less poor. That’s my development strategy.” […]
TEDGlobal 2007 Session 6: Listening to Nature
The day’s journey continued with anthropologist and geneticist Spencer Wells, who had us riveted with details of the Genographic Project, a landmark study he’s leading for National Geographic, tracing human origins to their roots in Africa. By collecting DNA samples from people around the world (especially groups of indigenous people), he’s determined the genetic origins […]
TEDGlobal 2007 Session 5: The Risk Takers
It’s a theme that’s emerged throughout the conference: Identifying unmet needs in under-served markets can pay back in spades. And for those willing to take a calculated risk, a perceived danger becomes an unprecedented opportunity. In this session, three case studies of extraordinary individuals pathfinding in emerging markets: For starters, there’s Florence Seriki, who founded […]
[TEDGlobal 2007] Session 4: Emergent Design
To understand Africa’s technological future, TEDGlobal Program Director Emeka Okafor calls Russell Southwood to the stage. Publisher of Balancing Act and respected tech commentator, Southwood envisions a future in which Africa leapfrogs the entire industrial phase of development, and skips straight to a high-tech competitiveness. To achieve this, he identifies several “door-openers” to fundamental change, […]
TEDGlobal 2007 Session 3: The Marketplace
So much of the new Africa centers around the marketplace, broadly defined: the connection points that enable commerce, community, communication and more generally: Growth. Today’s first session approached these questions of infrastructure from different angles, offering distinct and distinctly optimistic visions for a revitalized Africa. Economist Eleni Gabre-Madhin began the session on an inspiring note, […]
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BumpTop demo from TED2007, now on TED.com
Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a fresh user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3D extreme. In this physics-driven universe, important files finally get the weight they deserve via an oddly satisfying resizing feature, and the drudgery of file organization becomes a freewheeling playground full of crumpled documents and clipping-covered “walls.” Worried […]
Preconference tours show TEDGlobal bloggers the new Africa
Before the official start of TEDGlobal 2007, some attendees joined us for preconference tours, to get a visceral experience of the new Africa. Hosted by businesses and NGOs working on the ground in Tanzania, TEDsters visited schools, farms, businesses and other projects. A few reports: ClassV took a tour led by DATA and shot some […]
TEDGlobal bloggers on the scene in Arusha
Aside from posting great coverage of the sessions and speakers at TEDGlobal 2007, the conference’s many bloggers offer a glimpse of conference life — the spark of meeting so many people with so much to share. DNA captures the thrill: “… today is my first day at the TED Global Conference being held here in […]
The Day in Quotes (TEDGlobal 2007, Day One)
“We are all Africans. Welcome home.” — Paleontologist Zeray Alemseged, who discovered in Ethiopia the 3.3 million-year-old Salam, a 3-year-old hominid child, whose remains shed light on a key period in human evolution “We need to reframe the challenges facing Africa, from the challenge of soliciting charity to the challenge of creating wealth.” — Journalist/Social […]
TEDGlobal 2007: What the blogs say (Day one)
“There’s nothing like a little controversy to get the party started. TEDGlobal hasn’t disappointed thus far.” —White African “I’m fascinated to see how the crowd – both regular attendees of the conference and first-timers – react to the program that Emeka Okafor has put together. (…) I suspect that the overall message of the event […]
[TEDGlobal 2007] Session 2: Looking Back to Look Forward
We began session two looking back to … session one. Bono offered an unscheduled talk, taking on the anti-aid stance of journalist Andrew Mwenda, articulated earlier that day. (A bit of background: Bono’s moving 2005 TED Prize acceptance speech helped ignite within the TED Community a heightened interest in Africa, and led quite directly to […]
[TEDGlobal 2007] Session 1: The Africa You Don't Know
After an extraordinary welcoming fanfare by Malian chanteuse Rokia Traore, TEDGlobal 2007 (Africa: The Next Chapter) kicked off this afternoon with a session intended to shift your thinking about the continent. We hear so much about Africa’s problems — disease and poverty, conflict and corruption; here are the counterpoints that open our 4-day conversation here […]
TED.com's new discussion space: Africa: The Next Chapter
As the TED Conference team departs for Tanzania and TEDGlobal 2007, the TED.com team is beginning the conversation online, with our latest theme: Africa: The Next Chapter. We start with an observation: That while we’re all familiar with Africa’s challenges — famine and disease, conflict and corruption — it’s less known that across the continent, […]