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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.04,0:00:04.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chris Anderson asked me if I could put the last 25 years
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.61,0:00:09.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of anti-poverty campaigning into 10 minutes for TED.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.31,0:00:13.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's an Englishman asking an Irishman to be succinct.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.30,0:00:15.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.37,0:00:19.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "Chris, that would take a miracle."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.94,0:00:25.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "Bono, wouldn't that be a good use of your messianic complex?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.10,0:00:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.12,0:00:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I thought, let's go even further than 25 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.12,0:00:34.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's go back before Christ, three millennia,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.85,0:00:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a time when, at least in my head, the journey for justice,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.22,0:00:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the march against inequality and poverty really began.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.24,0:00:44.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three thousand years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.73,0:00:47.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,civilization just getting started on the banks of the Nile,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.78,0:00:51.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some slaves, Jewish shepherds in this instance,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.68,0:00:54.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,smelling of sheep shit, I guess,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.59,0:00:59.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,proclaimed to the Pharaoh, sitting high on his throne,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.17,0:01:04.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We, your majesty-ness, are equal to you."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.66,0:01:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Pharaoh replies, "Oh, no.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.04,0:01:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You, your miserableness, have got to be kidding."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.30,0:01:15.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they say, "No, no, that's what it says here
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.12,0:01:17.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our holy book."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.13,0:01:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cut to our century, same country, same pyramids,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.96,0:01:22.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another people spreading the same idea
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.19,0:01:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of equality with a different book.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.18,0:01:27.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This time it's called the Facebook.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.74,0:01:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Crowds are gathered in Tahrir Square.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.64,0:01:32.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They turn a social network from virtual to actual,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.05,0:01:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and kind of rebooted the 21st century.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.54,0:01:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to undersell how messy and ugly
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.02,0:01:40.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the aftermath of the Arab Spring has been,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.77,0:01:43.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neither to oversell the role of technology,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.54,0:01:46.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but these things have given a sense of what's possible
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.91,0:01:51.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the age-old model of power, the pyramid,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.27,0:01:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gets turned upside down, putting the people on top
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.08,0:01:57.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the pharaohs of today on the bottom, as it were.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.88,0:02:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's also shown us that something as powerful
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.96,0:02:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as information and the sharing of it can challenge inequality,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.98,0:02:07.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because facts, like people,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.95,0:02:10.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want to be free, and when they're free,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.30,0:02:11.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,liberty is usually around the corner,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.97,0:02:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even for the poorest of the poor --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.64,0:02:17.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,facts that can challenge cynicism
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.18,0:02:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the apathy that leads to inertia,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.07,0:02:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,facts that tell us what's working and,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.90,0:02:24.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more importantly, what's not, so we can fix it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.63,0:02:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,facts that if we hear them and heed them could help us
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.18,0:02:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meet the challenge that Nelson Mandela made
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.72,0:02:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back in 2005,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.24,0:02:35.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when he asked us to be that great generation
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.93,0:02:38.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that overcomes that most awful offense to humanity,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.99,0:02:40.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extreme poverty,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.97,0:02:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,facts that build a powerful momentum.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.07,0:02:47.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I thought, forget the rock opera,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.66,0:02:52.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forget the bombast, my usual tricks.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.78,0:02:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only thing singing today would be the facts,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.80,0:03:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for I have truly embraced by inner nerd.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.24,0:03:08.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So exit the rock star.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.53,0:03:17.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enter the evidence-based activist, the factivist.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.69,0:03:22.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because what the facts are telling us
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.36,0:03:25.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that the long, slow journey,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.63,0:03:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,humanity's long, slow journey of equality,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.92,0:03:29.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is actually speeding up.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.69,0:03:31.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at what's been achieved.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.77,0:03:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at the pictures these data sets print.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.12,0:03:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since the year 2000, since the turn of the millennium,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.04,0:03:39.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are eight million more AIDS patients
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.94,0:03:42.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting life-saving antiretroviral drugs.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.67,0:03:45.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malaria: There are eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.91,0:03:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have their death rates cut by 75 percent.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.56,0:03:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For kids under five, child mortality, kids under five,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.24,0:03:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's down by 2.65 million a year.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.66,0:04:03.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.27,0:04:08.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wow. Wow. (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.52,0:04:10.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's just stop for a second, actually, and think about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.81,0:04:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you read anything anywhere in the last week
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.64,0:04:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is remotely as important as that number? Wow.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.96,0:04:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Great news. It drives me nuts
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.95,0:04:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that most people don't seem to know this news.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.84,0:04:28.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seven thousand kids a day. Here's two of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.69,0:04:31.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Michael and Benedicta,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.37,0:04:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're alive thanks in large part
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.02,0:04:37.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Dr. Patricia Asamoah -- she's amazing --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.92,0:04:40.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Global Fund, which all of you financially support,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.89,0:04:42.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether you know it or not.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.43,0:04:45.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Global Fund provides antiretroviral drugs
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.35,0:04:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that stop mothers from passing HIV to their kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.99,0:04:52.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This fantastic news didn't happen by itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.16,0:04:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was fought for, it was campaigned for,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.04,0:04:55.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was innovated for.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.71,0:05:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this great news gives birth to even more great news,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.94,0:05:03.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the historic trend is this.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.82,0:05:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The number of people living in back-breaking,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.42,0:05:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,soul-crushing extreme poverty has declined
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.01,0:05:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from 43 percent of the world's population in 1990
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.10,0:05:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to 33 percent by 2000
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.00,0:05:21.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then to 21 percent by 2010.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.78,0:05:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Give it up for that. (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.04,0:05:29.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Halved. Halved.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.18,0:05:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, the rate is still too high -- still too many people
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.48,0:05:35.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unnecessarily losing their lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.46,0:05:36.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's still work to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.58,0:05:42.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's heart-stopping. It's mind-blowing stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.23,0:05:46.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you live on less than $1.25 a day,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.71,0:05:48.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you live in that kind of poverty,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.86,0:05:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is not just data.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.76,0:05:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.64,0:05:58.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're a parent who wants the best for your kids -- and I am --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.44,0:06:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this rapid transition is a route out of despair and into hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.77,0:06:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And guess what? If the trajectory continues,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.64,0:06:11.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,look where the amount of people living on $1.25 a day
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.17,0:06:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gets to by 2030.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.80,0:06:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can't be true, can it?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.12,0:06:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what the data is telling us. If the trajectory continues,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.50,0:06:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we get to, wow, the zero zone.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.64,0:06:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For number-crunchers like us,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.12,0:06:32.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is the erogenous zone,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.63,0:06:35.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's fair to say that I am, by now,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.82,0:06:40.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sexually aroused by the collating of data.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.87,0:06:46.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So virtual elimination of extreme poverty,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.13,0:06:49.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as defined by people living on less than $1.25 a day,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.73,0:06:54.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,adjusted, of course, for inflation from a 1990 baseline.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.13,0:06:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We do love a good baseline.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.14,0:06:58.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's amazing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.86,0:07:02.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I know that some of you think this progress
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.76,0:07:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is all in Asia or Latin America or
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.46,0:07:06.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,model countries like Brazil --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.79,0:07:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who doesn't love a Brazilian model? --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.68,0:07:13.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but look at sub-Saharan Africa.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.79,0:07:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a collection of 10 countries, some call them the lions,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.46,0:07:20.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who in the last decade have had a combination
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.19,0:07:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of 100 percent debt cancellation,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.74,0:07:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a tripling of aid, a tenfold increase in FDI --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.48,0:07:25.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's foreign direct investment --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.93,0:07:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has unlocked a quadrupling of domestic resources -- that's local money --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.86,0:07:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which, when spent wisely -- that's good governance --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.52,0:07:34.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cut childhood mortality by a third,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.79,0:07:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doubled education completion rates,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.50,0:07:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they, too, halved extreme poverty,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.60,0:07:44.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and at this rate, these 10 get to zero too.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.03,0:07:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the pride of lions
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.28,0:07:48.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the proof of concept.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.100,0:07:52.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are all kinds of benefits to this.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.43,0:07:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For a start, you won't have to listen
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.62,0:07:59.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to an insufferable little jumped-up Jesus like myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.97,0:08:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about that? (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.18,0:08:09.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And 2028, 2030? It's just around the corner.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.22,0:08:13.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, it's about three Rolling Stones farewell concerts away.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.50,0:08:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter) I hope. I'm hoping.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.82,0:08:22.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Makes us look really young.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.51,0:08:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So why aren't we jumping up and down about this?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.54,0:08:29.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, the opportunity is real, but so is the jeopardy.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.25,0:08:33.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can't get this done until we really accept
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.06,0:08:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we can get this done.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.54,0:08:37.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at this graph.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.79,0:08:42.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's called inertia. It's how we screw it up.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.61,0:08:44.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the next one is really beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.48,0:08:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's called momentum.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.01,0:08:52.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's how we can bend the arc of history
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.57,0:08:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down towards zero,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.20,0:08:56.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just doing the things that we know work.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.60,0:08:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So inertia versus momentum.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.64,0:09:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is jeopardy, and of course,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.18,0:09:03.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the closer you get, it gets harder.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.56,0:09:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know the obstacles that are in our way
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.50,0:09:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right now, in difficult times.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.52,0:09:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, today in your capital, in difficult times,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.66,0:09:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some who mind the nation's purse want to cut
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.24,0:09:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,life-saving programs like the Global Fund.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.64,0:09:19.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you can do something about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.46,0:09:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can tell politicians
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.44,0:09:24.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that these cuts [can cost] lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.35,0:09:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now today, in Oslo as it happens,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.92,0:09:30.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oil companies are fighting to keep secret
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.29,0:09:31.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their payments to governments
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.77,0:09:35.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for extracting oil in developing countries.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.49,0:09:37.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can do something about that too.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.21,0:09:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can join the One Campaign,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.07,0:09:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and leaders like Mo Ibrahim, the telecom entrepreneur.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.42,0:09:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're pushing for laws that make sure that at least some
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.24,0:09:49.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the wealth under the ground
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.71,0:09:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ends up in the hands of the people living above it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.28,0:09:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And right now, we know
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.05,0:10:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the biggest disease of all
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.76,0:10:03.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not a disease. It's corruption.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.73,0:10:05.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's a vaccine for that too.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.55,0:10:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's called transparency, open data sets,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.04,0:10:14.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something the TED community is really on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.05,0:10:17.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daylight, you could call it, transparency.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.66,0:10:20.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And technology is really turbocharging this.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.23,0:10:24.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's getting harder to hide if you're doing bad stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.98,0:10:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let me tell you about the U-report,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.96,0:10:31.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I'm really excited about. It's 150,000 millennials
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.57,0:10:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all across Uganda, young people
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.90,0:10:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,armed with 2G phones, an SMS social network
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.28,0:10:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exposing government corruption
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.34,0:10:43.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and demanding to know what's in the budget
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.94,0:10:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how their money is being spent.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.80,0:10:49.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is exciting stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.48,0:10:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, once you have these tools,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.84,0:10:54.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can't not use them.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.56,0:10:57.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once you have this knowledge, you can't un-know it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.09,0:11:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't delete this data from your brain,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.37,0:11:03.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you can delete the cliched image
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.19,0:11:05.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of supplicant, impoverished peoples
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.43,0:11:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not taking control of their own lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.50,0:11:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can erase that, you really can,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.88,0:11:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's not true anymore. (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.36,0:11:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's transformational.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.21,0:11:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2030? By 2030, robots,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.08,0:11:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just serving us Guinness, but drinking it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.88,0:11:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the time we get there,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.01,0:11:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every place with a rough semblance of governance
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.14,0:11:34.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might actually be on their way.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.17,0:11:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'm here to -- I guess we're here
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.98,0:11:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to try and infect you with this virtuous, data-based virus,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.48,0:11:45.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the one we call factivism.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.53,0:11:47.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not going to kill you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.18,0:11:51.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, it could save countless lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.27,0:11:53.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess we in the One Campaign would love you
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.95,0:11:58.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be contagious, spread it, share it, pass it on.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.99,0:12:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By doing so, you will join us and countless others
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.20,0:12:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in what I truly believe is the greatest adventure ever taken,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.16,0:12:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ever-demanding journey of equality.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.40,0:12:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could we really be the great generation
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.63,0:12:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Mandela asked us to be?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.60,0:12:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Might we answer that clarion call with science,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.58,0:12:25.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with reason, with facts,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.23,0:12:29.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, dare I say it, emotions?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.27,0:12:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because as is obvious, factivists have feelings too.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.40,0:12:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm thinking of Wael Ghonim, though.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.89,0:12:40.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of you know him. He set up one of the Facebook groups
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.17,0:12:44.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,behind the Tahrir Square in Cairo.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.27,0:12:45.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He got thrown in jail for it,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.82,0:12:50.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I have his words tattooed on my brain.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.54,0:12:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We are going to win because we don't understand politics.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.03,0:12:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are going to win because we don't play their dirty games.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.15,0:13:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are going to win because we don't have a party political agenda.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.44,0:13:03.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are going to win because the tears
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.41,0:13:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that come from our eyes actually come from our hearts.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.52,0:13:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are going to win because we have dreams,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.38,0:13:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're willing to stand up for those dreams."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.89,0:13:15.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wael is right.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.21,0:13:17.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to win
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.07,0:13:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we work together as one,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.30,0:13:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the power of the people
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.74,0:13:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is so much stronger than the people in power.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.57,0:13:29.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.02,0:13:31.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.89,0:13:35.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you so much. (Applause)