Pop Tech: Derek Lomas
2009 PopTech Fellow Derek Lomas is director of the Playpower Foundation, a global network of developers, designers, academics, NGOs and businesses. Playpower leverages the availability of ultra-low-cost computers to create […]
TED Talks: Cesar Harada
When TED Senior Fellow Cesar Harada heard about the devastating effects of the BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, he quit his dream job and moved […]
Ted Talks: Jennifer Pahlka
Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open? Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can – and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new […]
TED Talks: Clay Shirky
The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub — so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay […]
TED Talks: Peter Gabriel
Musician and activist Peter Gabriel shares his very personal motivation for standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS — and tells stories of citizen journalists in action.
TED Talks: Brewster Kahle
Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library — every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history … It’s all free to the […]
TED Talks: Shekhar Kapur
Where does creative inspiration spring from? At TEDIndia, Hollywood/Bollywood director Shekhar Kapur (‘Elizabeth,’ ‘Mr. India’) pinpoints his source of creativity: sheer, utter panic. He shares a powerful way to unleash […]
TED Talks: Phil Borges
Photographer Phil Borges shows rarely seen images of people from the mountains of Dharamsala, India, and the jungles of the Ecuadorean Amazon. In documenting these endangered cultures, he intends to […]
TED Talks: Caroline Casey
Activist Caroline Casey tells the story of her extraordinary life, starting with a revelation (no spoilers). In a talk that challenges perceptions, Casey asks us all to move beyond the […]
TED Talks: Michael Anti
Michael Anti (aka Jing Zhao) has been blogging from China for 12 years. Despite the control the central government has over the Internet — ‘All the servers are in Beijing’ […]
