Via the TED Fellows blog, the gorgeous text that Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo just spoke onstage at TEDWomen. “My name is Iyeoka Ivie Arabomen Okoawo. My father named me after my grandmother. My name means I want to be respected.” She does not know her beauty She thinks her brown skin has too many flaws If […]
The video above is being shown onstage now at TEDWomen and livestreamed around the world to TEDx events. TEDWomen cohost Pat Mitchell, the President of the Paley Center for Media, sits down for an intimate Q&A with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia. In this 3-minute video, Sirleaf talks about some of the leadership challenges […]
Just shown onstage: this wonderful slide of the 18 female elected heads of state: President Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina Prime Minister Mari Johanna Kiviniemi, Finland President Borjana Krišto, Bosnia and Herzegovina President Doris Leuthard, Switzerland President Pratibha Patil, India Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Australia President Mary McAleese, Ireland Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany President […]
Adital Ela, founder of S-Sense Design sustainability design studio in Israel, believes in listening. She listens to indigenous philosophy, and incorporates it into sustainable design; when helping a community, she first listens closely to their needs; listening to her body’s inner voice inspires her dancing. Working from a foundation of listening, she bridges different worlds, […]
The new issue of design mind has a great Q&A with today’s TEDTalks speaker, Marcel Dicke, in which he shares his first bug-eating experience: design mind: What were the first insects you ever tried? Marcel Dicke: It was dried, fried termites that Arnold van Huis brought back from Africa, where he’d been working. We were […]
Every year, on December 1, the global community comes together on World AIDS Day to learn more about the virus and lend support to those living with HIV/AIDS.. This year’s theme is “Universal Access and Human Rights.” To increase awareness of the effects of the AIDS virus, and to help understand its spread and possible […]
Yamini Aiyar founded the Accountability Initiative to track and inform the public of what really happens to government money in India. The Initiative also researches the effectiveness of accountability efforts in the country. The group’s work has drawn praise from Indian government officials, and even from President Obama. Taking a cue from her mother, a […]
First an immunologist, then a healthcare journalist and now a writer focusing on the Arab region, Shereen El Feki also serves on the UN’s Global Commission on HIV and the Law. In addition to studying social change in the Arab region, Shereen works on development with a women’s university in Saudi Arabia. Interactive Fellows Friday […]
After studying architecture in Minnesota, Joshua Wanyama established his own Kenya-based digital marketing agency, Pamoja Media. Happily back home in Nairobi, Joshua uses his company to tackle some of Africa’s most daunting social challenges — including climate change, hunger, and AIDS — while also maintaining a photography website dedicated to helping Africans tell their own […]
On Monday, the INK Conference (which is being held in partnership with TED) and the Rajeev Motwani Foundation hosted US President Barack Obama at an Expo on democracy and open government. The organizers were tasked with the critical job of showcasing new Indian innovations that might improve the relationship between citizens and government. The result? […]
For years, orthodontist Awab Alvi has been an outspoken political activist via his blog, Teeth Maestro. With the onset of disastrous flooding in his native Pakistan this July, Awab traveled to the front lines, delivering food and supplies to flood victims. Though the after effects of the floods have caused personal family tragedy, Awab’s fierce […]
The InK Conference (which stands for Innovation and Knowledge) is being run by longtime TEDster Lakshmi Pratury, who co-hosted TEDIndia a year ago. TED has signed a content partnership agreement with INK that will allow us to bring the best InK talks to TED.com. TEDIndia in 2009 was a thrilling experience, attracting a sold-out audience […]
The iconic portrait of 2011 TED Prize winner JR, jumping in front of a bold pair of eyes, was shot by the photographer and writer Christopher Shay. The story of how this photo came to be is an interesting one — and we asked Shay to tell it: I met JR when I was writing […]
… by an interesting twist, three winners connected to three different TED initiatives: TEDGlobal 2010 Fellow Adital Ela, a sustainable-design star. Watch Adital’s 5-minute talk from the TED Fellows conference >> Abreu Fellow Dantes Rameau, whose work with the El Sistema music program is an outgrowth of José Abreu’s 2009 TED Prize wish >> and […]
Band manager Vijay Nair is revolutionizing the independent music scene in India. In an industry heavily dominated by Bollywood, Vijay has resorted to creative techniques like printing instructions of how to pirate one of his band’s CDs on the back of the disc. Though his quirky company has had a lot of success, all start-ups […]
Unconventional astronomer Garki Israelian is known to TEDsters for his talk at TEDGlobal 2009 on studying the spectrum emitted by stars. Now Israelian is inviting anyone with an interest in astronomy and the space sciences to travel to the Canary Islands, in Spain, home of the world’s largest telescope, to participate on June 20-25, 2011 […]