Watch TEDxChange: The Big Picture Live from Berlin
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has teamed up with TED for a very special project called TEDxChange – an initiative devoted to ideas worth spreading in the areas of global health and development. The TEDxChange team works with TEDx organizers around the world to help facilitate meaningful discussions on topics such as vaccines, polio, malaria, HIV/AIDS, maternal and newborn child health, and agricultural development.
This year the TEDxChange event takes place in Berlin and you can watch it live here on the ONE Blog on April 5th at 17.30 CET (15.30 GMT/UTC ):
At this year’s event the speakers will take a step back and look at the big picture: Why should we continue to invest in global health and development? And how can we work across borders and boundaries to make positive change?
The speakers at the event are:
Melinda Gates: Melinda Gates serves as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She helps set the overall direction of the foundation, shaping strategies, reviewing results, and advocating for the foundation’s issues.
Jeff Chapin: Jeff Chapin is a mechanical engineer and product designer for IDEO. He specializes in designing sanitation solutions for the developing world and has conducted projects in both Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Sven Giegold: Sven Giegold is a Member of the European Parliament and one of the founding members of Attac Germany. Sven has dedicated much of his career towards green industry issues.
Theo Sowa: Theo Sowa is an independent advisor and consultant, specializing in international social development with a particular emphasis on children’s rights and protection issues, especially in conflict situations.
Baaba Maal: Baaba Maal is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River. Baaba sings primarily in Pulaar and is the foremost promoter of the traditions of the Pulaar-speaking peoples.
Watch the event live and follow the conversation on twitter via the #TEDxChange hashtag.
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07/04/2012 at 12:32 pm
Male contraception must be on the global feminist agenda for men to believe in at-will progressive family choice. It is not enough for women to control their family choices, they have the hard proof of equality to create the progression for even further choice based familial planning and male ownership into the family as well.
16/04/2012 at 1:51 am
the world´s leader are all blinding, they dont wanna help, they trying to make up those troubles are not the too important for the world…they only thinking in earn more and more …but not thinking in all the childen in the poor country…this a bigmistake.. they shame us all…I am very sad for it…such big mistake in world is ignored all the rights of the human being less fortunate than others…we need to screm to them for giving more reason to help and look for us….the child with hugry for the mother who has no food to give to her baby…shame and unfair world.lucinete messina
16/04/2012 at 2:46 am
This just isn’t right. by Lucinete Messina
The last time you heard from me I was dropping the F bomb — not the one you’re probably thinking of. I was part of ONE’s campaign to declare famine to be the real obscenity. Hundreds of thousands of ONE Members answered the call, took action, and together I think we helped make a difference.
But tens of millions of kids are still suffering from chronic hunger and malnutrition. This just isn’t right.