WEBVTT 00:00:01.463 --> 00:00:04.214 Kelo Kubu: The idea of sharing ideas 00:00:04.214 --> 00:00:06.870 is actually not a very popular 00:00:06.870 --> 00:00:08.123 or common thing, 00:00:08.123 --> 00:00:09.840 at least where I come from. 00:00:10.597 --> 00:00:12.742 Halim Madi: Beirut 00:00:12.742 --> 00:00:14.139 is a strange cocktail. 00:00:14.139 --> 00:00:16.464 We don't have oil like the other Arab countries. 00:00:16.464 --> 00:00:17.868 All we have are the people. 00:00:17.868 --> 00:00:20.586 And our only asset 00:00:20.586 --> 00:00:21.777 are the ideas we have. 00:00:21.777 --> 00:00:24.442 Hanseok Ryu: Most of Asian countries, like Korea, 00:00:24.442 --> 00:00:26.734 [didn't] use to have this kind of chances 00:00:26.734 --> 00:00:29.054 to speak on a stage like TED. 00:00:29.054 --> 00:00:31.518 Tahee Pantig: The great thing about the TEDx platform 00:00:31.518 --> 00:00:33.252 is that it's like a beacon of hope, 00:00:33.252 --> 00:00:35.418 so that other people in the community can see, 00:00:35.418 --> 00:00:38.554 "Wow, there are some really incredible things that I can take part of 00:00:38.554 --> 00:00:40.617 and help change where we live." 00:00:40.647 --> 00:00:43.277 Krisztina "Z" Holly: We're talking about how it might be possible 00:00:43.277 --> 00:00:46.359 to bring that TED experience to campus 00:00:46.829 --> 00:00:49.681 and see if we can do an independently organized event. 00:00:49.681 --> 00:00:51.324 Lara Stein: The mission of TEDx 00:00:51.324 --> 00:00:53.937 is to spread great ideas across the globe, 00:00:53.937 --> 00:00:56.603 and tap into local voices within local communities, 00:00:56.603 --> 00:00:57.846 and give them a platform. 00:00:57.846 --> 00:01:01.014 Jim Stolze: TEDx is a way for people in their own local community, 00:01:01.014 --> 00:01:03.767 to give their community a TED experience. 00:01:03.767 --> 00:01:05.233 HR: Holding a TEDx event 00:01:05.233 --> 00:01:07.799 is not only about introducing whole new ideas 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:10.317 which were introduced from TED.com, 00:01:10.317 --> 00:01:12.523 but I think it's really all about community. 00:01:12.523 --> 00:01:15.226 LS: TEDx is the ability for you and your community, 00:01:15.226 --> 00:01:17.529 to tap into some local thinkers and voices 00:01:17.529 --> 00:01:18.829 and have a real dialogue 00:01:18.829 --> 00:01:20.960 about how to make a difference in the world. 00:01:20.960 --> 00:01:22.939 Suraj Sudhakar: The world of development, 00:01:22.939 --> 00:01:25.193 what's happening, what are the latest findings, 00:01:25.193 --> 00:01:27.126 is often not shared with the very people 00:01:27.126 --> 00:01:29.231 for whom we really want development to work. 00:01:29.231 --> 00:01:31.252 Once we decided we're going to do a TEDx, 00:01:31.252 --> 00:01:33.881 then we thought about who are these different speakers. 00:01:33.881 --> 00:01:35.442 One was a person who would come 00:01:35.442 --> 00:01:36.826 and talk about microfinance. 00:01:36.826 --> 00:01:39.275 Another person we found would talk about technology 00:01:39.275 --> 00:01:41.026 and the phenomenon of mobile phones. 00:01:41.026 --> 00:01:42.530 We found an artist from Kibera; 00:01:42.530 --> 00:01:44.624 with stuff he finds in and around Kibera, 00:01:44.624 --> 00:01:45.898 he creates art. 00:01:45.898 --> 00:01:47.428 We actually took this TEDx 00:01:47.428 --> 00:01:49.078 to different slums around Nairobi. 00:01:49.078 --> 00:01:51.997 We use this as a platform to share ideas across communitites. NOTE Paragraph 00:01:51.997 --> 00:01:54.061 Richard Hsu: I think it's the basic nature. 00:01:54.061 --> 00:01:56.696 If you come across something good in your private life, 00:01:56.696 --> 00:01:58.990 you just say, "Oh God, I wish my friends see it. 00:01:58.990 --> 00:02:01.784 I wish my parents were there. I wish my brother was here." 00:02:01.784 --> 00:02:03.700 This is just something incredibly basic. 00:02:03.700 --> 00:02:07.247 TP: I think for an idea to spread there needs to be a personal connection. 00:02:07.247 --> 00:02:08.242 HR: Yeah, stories! 00:02:08.242 --> 00:02:10.611 I think stories are such a powerful tool 00:02:10.611 --> 00:02:14.151 because a story changes people, how they think. 00:02:14.151 --> 00:02:17.044 Stephen Balzer: I think it's a part of the secret of TED, 00:02:17.044 --> 00:02:19.848 the personal touch, its storyline. 00:02:19.848 --> 00:02:22.490 Rodrigo Cunha: With TEDxAmazônia we had this girl, 00:02:22.490 --> 00:02:24.573 she was a researcher in the Amazon. 00:02:24.573 --> 00:02:26.203 And she was washing clothes 00:02:26.203 --> 00:02:29.191 and then a crocodile emerged from the river 00:02:29.191 --> 00:02:31.459 and took her, and took her leg. 00:02:31.459 --> 00:02:33.024 And we asked her to go there 00:02:33.024 --> 00:02:35.358 and give us a talk about her experience. 00:02:35.358 --> 00:02:37.450 And at the end of the talk she said, 00:02:37.450 --> 00:02:40.147 "You don't have to be afraid of the storm. 00:02:40.147 --> 00:02:42.497 You have to learn how to dance in the rain." 00:02:42.497 --> 00:02:44.137 When we did go to the break, 00:02:44.137 --> 00:02:47.229 there was this huge tropical storm coming in, 00:02:47.229 --> 00:02:49.321 and people were dancing on the floor. 00:02:49.321 --> 00:02:52.587 Alison Whitmire: It was in the ugliest part of the recession. 00:02:52.587 --> 00:02:56.975 The people I work with are CEOs of small to medium sized businesses. 00:02:56.975 --> 00:02:58.303 And they were suffering. 00:02:58.303 --> 00:03:00.438 I thought, "That's what I'm going to do. 00:03:00.438 --> 00:03:02.182 I'm going to have a TEDx 00:03:02.182 --> 00:03:05.211 that reconnects these CEOs 00:03:05.211 --> 00:03:08.105 with the passion that helped them start their business." 00:03:08.105 --> 00:03:10.507 KK: The willingness to say, 00:03:10.507 --> 00:03:12.693 "Here is how I got here. 00:03:12.693 --> 00:03:14.695 This is something that I will share with you. 00:03:14.994 --> 00:03:17.917 You take it and see what you can do with it." 00:03:17.917 --> 00:03:19.346 SB: They really take action. 00:03:19.346 --> 00:03:21.950 They have energy to change something. 00:03:21.950 --> 00:03:23.588 Presenting these ideas to people 00:03:23.588 --> 00:03:25.085 is really what brings up change 00:03:25.085 --> 00:03:27.203 in peoples' minds and the countries as well. 00:03:27.203 --> 00:03:29.025 It's not top-down but it's grassroots. 00:03:29.025 --> 00:03:30.845 JS: So what we've done in 2010 00:03:30.845 --> 00:03:32.938 was to look for four ideas worth doing, 00:03:32.938 --> 00:03:35.067 to see how we could get those ideas further. 00:03:35.067 --> 00:03:37.456 They're working on those ideas for the whole year, 00:03:37.456 --> 00:03:38.760 and at TEDxAmsterdam 2011, 00:03:38.760 --> 00:03:41.341 we're going to present what happened in the last year. 00:03:41.341 --> 00:03:43.715 TP: They all know that they can change the world. 00:03:43.715 --> 00:03:46.687 Not only do they want to, but they just know that they can. 00:03:46.687 --> 00:03:48.445 They have this unwavering confidence 00:03:48.445 --> 00:03:50.832 in the fact that what they're doing is special 00:03:50.832 --> 00:03:54.126 and is contributing something to the world and to their communities.