Connecting Brazilian TEDx’es through TEDxChange
TEDxChange — themed “the Big Picture” — is asking communities all around the world to stop thinking small and start thinking big: How do you contribute to the world’s problems and how can you contribute to their solution?
Mauricio Curi — organizer of TEDxVilaMada — and the Brazilian TEDx community are directly answering that question: A network of 13 events throughout Brazil will jointly take part in the April 5th livestream of TEDxChange.
A few of the 13 events will have live speakers, who will be broadcast concurrently to the stage of the other events around the country.
Since 2011, TEDxVilaMada has been using a platform they call UxChange to make sure that good ideas are turned into better actions. They started with a C02 compensation initiative that had events handing out test tubes of tree seedlings to each attendee, along with instructions on how to plant the trees. The progress of these seedlings is tracked on the UxChange platform.
To date, eight different events have taken part, and Mauricio Curi has high hopes for this year, noting, “We intend to run UxChange again at TEDxVilaMadáChange, our first 2012 event, in cooperation with other Brazilian TEDx organizers…the idea is to compensate C02 emissions nationwide.”
A behind-the-scenes video from TEDxJovem@Ibira.
The global TEDxWomen community
From the TEDxWomen blog:
It’s awe inspiring to think about all the women and men joining us all across the world for today’s TEDxWomen. There are over 100 events on every continent, in every time zone, enabling thousands of people to gather in community and experience the TED talks taking place in New York and Los Angeles, as well as their own local talks. We are amazed by the energy of all of our TEDx organizers and their dynamic, diverse communities.
Picture the women of TEDxNASAJSCWomen, gathered at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. They’ll be highlighting women speakers in the realms of engineering innovation, new scientific discoveries, and perspectives from space, including Julie Robinson, chief scientist for the ISS Program who will talk about experiments that can’t be done on earth including Dr. Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, the first Japanese female to the South Pole and discoverer of two new minerals!
Picture the women of TEDxBuslimWomen in Tripoli, Libya, which will actually take place tomorrow. They’ll hear from six local speakers on the theme of “be inspired.”
Picture the women of TEDxDirahWomen in Riyadh, 
Saudi Arabia, many of them students at King Saud University. Local speakers will include a library director, a researcher of biotechnology, and a writer on special education.
Picture the women of TEDxVasatanWomen in Stockholm, gathering in an old church that has been reshaped into a working office for Swedish entrepreneurs, and those of TEDxAmsterdamWomen, gathering at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
Picture the women of TEDxDaLuz in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the women of TEDxEwhaWomen in Seoul, South Korea.
Picture all of us, joining together to explore “ideas worth spreading” from some of the world’s most innovative, engaged, and charismatic leaders. It’s a genuinely global community and a groundbreaking moment. We’re so honored to be the catalyst for all of these conversations.
Reposted with permission. Originally posted to the TEDxWomen blog, written by Courtney Martin. »
TEDxVer-o-Peso team members stand on the street in Belem, Brazil.
