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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense.” – Rumi
How are the Rumi quote and this video related?
What types of opportunities would one laptop per child in the world provide to those who couldn’t afford one otherwise? One laptop per child, access to the internet, healthy food and healthcare, combined with education is what everyone in this world needs. Nicholas Negroponte is plugging in one component that will allow all children and people to connect conversations and purposes with one another and begin to move the conversation of the world forward.
In this TED Talk by Andrew Mwenda gives us a new way of looking at delivering foreign aid to impoverished nations. The crux of his argument is that we must take an entrepeneureal perspective in delivering aid. He is arguing that what we must do for Africa is give them the tools and infrastructure to help themselves.
In his talk he asks the question, “how many people do you know who became successful by taking handouts from others?” It’s a great question. Do you know anyone who has become successful by being treated as a charity case?
For the next few posts I will be focusing on the headline Rethinking Poverty. My commitment to this world is to do everything within my power to end poverty on the planet. These may be high hopes but it’s what I feel I’ve been put here to do. If we are to really tackle poverty in an effective way we must first change the conversation and begin looking at it in different ways. It will not be one giant solution that eliminates poverty it will take all of the world’s creativity and innovation to really make the changes that are necessary. You may agree or disagree with the approaches of the folks in the next few posts, but one thing that is apparent with these individuals is that they are willing to be creative and innovative. These individuals are truly forwarding the collective conversation.
LISTENING!!! Listening is about asking questions! As our trainer always told us in Coro “questions are an invitation to possibility.”
This TED Talk is about capitalism and making it work for those who have nothing in the poorest regions of the world. This talk is about giving people the tools and “bootstraps” that will allow them to pull themselves up. This talk is by an incredible woman named Jacqueline Novogratz.
Here’s a question for all watching and reading. How are these ideas forwarding our collective conversation? What place does this conversation have in our local, national, and international dialogue?
In order for us to tackle the toughest problems in the world we need to start by making sure that there are open lines of communication. Communication and listening are two significant factor that will allow those in the United States (and around the world) to work with others nations to finally begin tackling issues like poverty in a wholistic way that creates local solutions. This TED Talk by Hector Ruiz opens up the discussion of connecting the entire world through the internet.
Hector Ruiz on the power to connect the world
A TED Talk that outlines how we are all related. We all share the same family tree. This is just so fascinating. So if we’re all of the same descendents then we should start acting like it. In this talk Spencer Wells introduces how we are all geneologically of the same origin and that our differences come from a series of migrations across the world during the last Ice Age. Take a look…
Here is a fantastic TED Talk on classical music as it relates to leadership by Benjamin Zander. The essential idea that comes out of this is that a true leader allows others to truly explore their own talents in a constructive and creative way. Apparently, classical music provides us with a great example of how that can happen. Take a look…
Classical Music Through Shining Eyes
This is the direction that technology is headed. The movie Minority Report featured a screen that acted smiliarly. There are so many amazing things that will be made possible with this kind of technology and it appears as if Apple is poised to use this type of technology moving forward. Moving it will be interesting to see how these types of technology will change the way that we connect with others across the world. Check out this TED Talk from Jeff Han
Open-sourced materials for schools and educators. This is a fantastic idea. Watch the video below to see more about it or go to the Connexions website. It’s being developed by Richard Baraniuk at Rice University.
This is a great video from TED Talks that speaks to institutions vs. collaboration. For me this raises an important question: how do we create institutions that build collaboration into their culture? I ask this question because I don’t think that institutions are obsolete, rather I think that there are certain functions that institutions once provided that can be done through collaboration. Essentially, there are some elements of institutions lend themselves to the collaborative effort of the whole. The whole here is in reference to those on the internet as recent technological advancements have made collaboration and communication cheap, easy, and effective.
What is improtant in this video is the fact that institutions must find ways to make collaboration intuitive. If you look at this from a larger perspective this also applies to governments at the local, national, and international levels.
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