James D. Long explores how to reduce corruption and improve government performance by using technology to empower citizens. Violence, intimidation, and vote ...
Inequality is a big, big subject. There's racial inequality, gender inequality, and lots and lots of other kinds of...
Inequality is a big, big subject. There's racial inequality, gender inequality, and lots and lots of other kinds of inequality. This is Econ, so we're going ...
Allen Welsh Dulles (/ˈdʌləs/; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American diplomat and lawyer who became the...
Allen Welsh Dulles (/ˈdʌləs/; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American diplomat and lawyer who became the first civilian Director of Central Intelli...
Diplomats from around the world have spent more than 20 years trying unsuccessfully to hammer out a United Nations...
Diplomats from around the world have spent more than 20 years trying unsuccessfully to hammer out a United Nations agreement on climate change. This year, wh...
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. POOF ! it's gone, lost...
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. POOF ! it's gone, lost forever. I contend that "what we call histor...
http://www.tedxeuston.com Sada Mire is a Somalian archaeologist. She lived the first fifteen years of her life in...
http://www.tedxeuston.com Sada Mire is a Somalian archaeologist. She lived the first fifteen years of her life in Mogadishu, until 1991, when she settled in ...
Reduction of poverty, liberation, freedom: all of these words have been used to define international development,...
Reduction of poverty, liberation, freedom: all of these words have been used to define international development, but no definition is set in stone. Global development expert and TED Fellow Alanna Shaikh breaks it down for us: It is about providing aid, while understanding that the developing world actually subsidizes the developed world. In this talk she points a light at corruption in an effort towards a more just world.
Bruce Crowther talks about how he inspired by looking at the past to the slave trade as he works to promote the...
Bruce Crowther talks about how he inspired by looking at the past to the slave trade as he works to promote the fairtrade. Bruce, included in the former UK P...