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On September 20, to coincide with the United Nations summit on the Millennium Development
Goals, a global event organized by TED and the Gates Foundation took place in New York. In
Amsterdam, a remarkable group of individuals joined to watch the live TEDxChange Webcast Social Networks
together, and listen to speakers like Melinda Gates, Graça Machel and Hans Rosling.
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The 100 guests then listened to eight people that travelled to Amsterdam to present their work in Follow us at Twitter
Africa during an interactive dinner. Arjan Erkel, Consolata Ndayishimiye, Pascal Katana, Tonee
Ndungu, Bill Liao, Marlon Parker, Boldewijn Sloet and Ndubuisi Ekekwe (who joined by Skype) Join our Facebook group
shared their desires and passions, their ideas and achievements, and then asked for support.
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Money was not requested – the currency at this event was skills, knowledge and time.
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Where can we start to describe the special evening some 108 benevolent change agents took
part in last Monday at TEDxChange? There seemed to be a natural ease of exchanging
information and knowledge between the guests and speakers. And if the ever rising room
temperature reflected people’s burning desire to make that positive change the world needs, we
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can be reassured. Here are some typical moments you could have experienced.
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we partner up with multinationals. It must go faster than with governments only – I mean, why
wouldn’t Unilever or Shell spread mosquito nets and condoms with their distributional power?”
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On a venture to push creativity, table host Steven Kop told his dinner dates that he wanted to
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stop the thinking part of their brains. How he did it? Distracting the ratio by immediately
answering questions like “What would you do if you could breathe under water?” Steven built up September 2010
creative pressure to find answers to how participants could add something brilliant to Malaria No August 2010
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action day (October 8 ) in Rotterdam, one guest is able to arrange a location with a view to the
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Marcia Luyten, moderator (introducing Bill Liao): “This Bill guy is remarkable: he walks the talk. It January 2010
took him two days to get here by car, boat and probably some hitchhiking too. He stopped flying
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Bill swept away the audience with catchy one-liners and an intriguing exercise: he asked us all
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to close our eyes and imagine we were the wind, rushing over open fields and spreading
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warmth. When I secretly peeked around, almost everybody was making a self-induced trip
through nature. You might want to check the pictures for some nice images of this visualization.
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Andrew Makkinga, moderator: “The problem isn’t the innovations, it’s getting through to Western
business people. Take Pascal Katana – he just told me about the need to launch a digital Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-03
product in New York, just for credibility.” Doesn’t it make a bad impression when a microphone Impressive crowd at TEDxChange
battery dies? Let’s face it, it’s uncomfortable for everyone. However, when Pascal Katana was Jacob Gelt Dekker: It starts with you
about to present his pitch for smart mobile chargers and the mic stopped working, laughter TEDxLahore for TEDxAmsterdam
blasted through the room when somebody shouted “you need a charger!”
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