More than 30% of Bangladeshis suffer from undernutrition, consuming insufficient quantities of vitamin A, iron and zinc. To help improve nutrition security i...

Senator Professor Emeritus Henry Fraser, retired Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences and Founding Director of the Chronic Disease Research Centre of the ...

Subscribe Now: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-BROADLY Where the foothills of Mount Kenya merge into the desert, the people of Samburu have maintained a strict pa...

Recently we were sent on an assignment to travel to Tanzania and meet an inspiring woman called Ashley Washburn who is using Skype to improve the educational experience of young children. We had an amazing time in Tanzania and would like to extend a huge thanks to Ashley and her family for letting us stay with them. Here's the film we made!

Tamara Afifi is a Professor in the Department of Communication at UCSB. Most of her research focuses on how family members cope communicatively with various ...

ABOUT THE TALK: The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the lack of information. Making sense of this flash flood of information, “Big Data”, is proving an impossible challenge for traditional humanitarian organizations; so they’re turning to Digital Humanitarians: tech-savvy volunteers who craft and leverage ingenious crowdsourcing solutions with trail-blazing insights from artificial intelligence. This talk charts the rise of Digital Humanitarians and describes how they make sense of social media, satellite & aerial imagery and more on behalf of humanitarian organizations worldwide.

PATRICK MEIER is the author of the book Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response (http://www.digital-humanitarians.com/). He directs QCRI’s Social Innovation Program where he & his team use human and machine computing to develop “Next Generation Humanitarian Technologies” in partnership with international humanitarian organizations. Patrick was previously with Ushahidi and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He has a PhD from The Fletcher School, Pre-Doc from Stanford and an MA from Columbia. His influential blog iRevolutions has received over 1.5 million hits.

www.tedxamsterdam.com As a psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Research at the Department of Psychiatry, George Eman Vai...