From: sciencestage.com on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:17 AM

Urban planner Arif Hasan charts the scale of settlement in Pakistan and its consequences. He surprises the audience with statistical evidence that calls for a second look at the population demographic. About the speaker An architect, teacher and social researcher, Arif Hasan has worked diligentl...

From: sciencestage.com on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:17 AM

Christian is Co-founder and Head of Sandbox live! at Sandbox, a global network for the most inspiring innovators below 30. He acts as Special Advisor for social entrepreneurship and community matters at the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (NACUE), and has been selected as one of ...

From: sciencestage.com on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:17 AM

Dr. Haque makes an anti-case for clever schemes and outsourced thinking and why they don’t seem to be working. He wishes to change the present growth paradigm by accepting that our cities need to develop a space for creativity. The talk video will be posted here on 31st August. About the speaker ...

From: sciencestage.com on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:17 AM

Designer Vik Muniz talks about how art can have a social impact greater tnah art itself. Transcription/Transcrição: Teo Petri Translation/Tradução: Luiz Mello About TEDx In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share ...

From: sciencestage.com on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:17 AM

The TEDxDaejeon 5th Speaker, Jo Ju-hyun 조주현은 언론인이다. 그 중에서도 주류 언론매체가 아닌, 풀뿌리 민주주의의 상징이라 할 수 있는 지역신문의 베테랑이다. 그는 해당 지역 단체장의 개인 홍보수단으로 전락해버린 몇몇 지역신문의 관행을 따르지 않고 지역사회의 끈끈한 연대를 느끼기에 충분한 내용들로 옥천신문을 만들어 왔다. 물론 이는 혼자만의 힘으로 이룬 게 아닌, 신문사 구성원들과 지역주민들의 적극적 참여와 정성이 함께 했던 결과이다. 또한 그는 옥천신문에서 한국에서 '안티조선...

From: sciencestage.com on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:17 AM

Founder of Khudi Foundation, Maajid Nawaz, probes the need for counter-narratives, recounting the personal challenges he had to undergo as a young man to go from extremism to enlightenment. About the speaker In 2009, Maajid teamed up with a number of young Pakistanis to start a counter-extremism...

From: sciencestage.com on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:17 AM

Osama Manzar is a convert social entrepreneur spearheading the mission to overcome the information barrier between Indias rural sector, and the so-called developed society, through Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) the not-for-profit organisation founded to accomplish the mission; www.defindi...

From: sciencestage.com on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:17 AM

Valentina Bosetti è vincitrice di un prestigioso grant ERC, European Research Council, con il progetto ICARUS ( Innovation for Climate change mitigation: a study of energy R

From: sciencestage.com on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:17 AM

According to a Cofan Indian, the body of Randy Borman, is gringo, but his heart is Cofan. Randy was a baby when his parents, American missionaries, moved to the Ecuadorian rainforest to live among the Cofan Indians and translate the Bible into their language. Today he is Chief of the tribe. --- ...

From: sciencestage.com on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:17 AM

In his talk at TEDxUBC, Jeffrey Piontek speaks about Educating Jetsons Children in Flintstones schools. How do we provide an opportunity for success, access and experience to our children, the You Tube generation in our schools! Jeff looks at best practices in virtual education and on-line learn...

From: sciencestage.com on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:17 AM

Playing is a core human need. The rational homo economicus may indeed be a myth, and the concept of a homo faber, who is by definition productive, may have to be enriched by the element of playfulness and fun as driving powers. Are we Homo Ludens after all? In a time, when rationality seems on t...

From: sciencestage.com on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:17 AM

David Thomas discusses what makes a location fun. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers c...

From: sciencestage.com on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:17 AM

In this talk, Paul Dunn shares the deep joy that can be found in sustainable giving. Paul Dunn serves as the Chairman of Buy1Give1 (B1G1). B1G1, as Paul puts it, gives business the power to change our lives. Within B1G1, giving is a simple, effortless habit. Through what’s known as transaction-b...

From: sciencestage.com on Thu, Jul 14 2011 6:40 AM

Performance by Bill Frisell at the TEDxED conference in Richmond, CA

From: sciencestage.com on Thu, Jul 14 2011 4:27 AM

Stephen Friend, MD, PhD, is President, Co-Founder and Director of Sage Bionetworks, a nonprofit biomedical research organization created to revolutionize how researchers approach the complexity of human biological information and the treatment of disease. Stephen explains that we have all of the...

From: sciencestage.com on Thu, Jul 14 2011 4:27 AM

Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009), blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New Yorks new Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting editor and a part...

From: sciencestage.com on Thu, Jul 14 2011 4:27 AM

Chris Lehmann clehmann [at] scienceleadership [dot] org Chris is the founding principal of the Science Leadership Academy, a progressive science and technology high school in Philadelphia, PA. Chris has returned to his native Philadelphia after nine years as an English Teacher, Technology Coordi...

From: sciencestage.com on Thu, Jul 14 2011 4:27 AM

Lawrence Lessig is the director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Prior to returning to Harvard, he was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the schools Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chic...

From: sciencestage.com on Thu, Jul 14 2011 4:27 AM

Henry Jenkins joins USC from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was Peter de Florez Professor in the Humanities. He directed MITs Comparative Media Studies graduate degree program from 1993-2009, setting an innovative research agenda during a time of fundamental change in commun...

From: sciencestage.com on Thu, Jul 14 2011 4:27 AM

Dubbed the explainer by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the implications of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to...