TEDGLOBAL 2007 will take place in Tanzania

TED has announced today that the next TEDGLOBAL (the conference that I produced in Oxford last year) will take place from the 3rd to the 6th of June 2007 in Arusha, Tanzania. It will go under the theme Africa: the good news. A scolarship will be offered to 100 people from Africa "who are doing the right thing on the ground", in the words of TED curator Chris Anderson. And a fund "of at least 5 million dollars" will be raised for investments in those "right things", managed by Acumen Fund.

Comments

[Joanne Warfield]

TANZANIA is a wonderful idea and location for the next TEDGLOBAL conference. It will gather a very important group of "world changing" people together in a new environment, potentially creating new possibilities and solutions for the residents there and, I am sure, enlighten everyone attending.

I would love to attend the conference and also participate with the drumming circle in any way. Rhythm Healing is one of my modalities.

It was great watching the TED awards on the live broadcast tonight. It was very inspiring.

Namaste'

[Alex Osterwalder]

Now this is a veeery good idea. I particularly like the starting point: "the good news"! It breaks the cliché that Africa has nothing to offer. This is simply not true. Africa is very diverse and rich in talent. Only if we start from strengths and when we acknowledge those strengths will we be able to advance! Starting from the positive and make it spread is so much more powerful than the approach of the so-called "problem-solvers" that focus on weaknesses.

Warm regards from Thailand,
Alex