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Human rights start with everyone: Mallika Dutt

Mallika Dutt fights for human rights not just by advocating for institutional change, but by appealing for societal change as well. At TEDxGateway, she shares clips from her popular films that address issues from violence against women to HIV/AIDS and place the responsibility for creating a culture of dignity on every individual.

Each week, we choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas worth spreading. Browse all TEDxTalks here »

State of the X: TEDx event numbers for January


TEDx events by the numbers: January

  • 77 TEDx events happened around the world
  • 67 cities hosted one or more TEDx events 
  • 29 countries hosted one or more TEDx events 


TEDx by the numbers: All time

  • 3190 TEDx events have happened around the world
  • 800 cities around the world have hosted one or more TEDx event
  • 126 countries have hosted one or more TEDx events

TEDxPune empowers its community

On October 10th, 2010, TEDxPune hosted its first event to inspire better cities and citizenship. We were interested in spreading ideas, and our main challenge was to engage our local community.

We wanted to cover people from various backgrounds - from technologically enabled engineers to poor slum kids who have potential ideas, but don’t have a platform or access.

In one year since the first TEDxPune — we’ve hosted a series of activities in our city for “ideas worth spreading”:

Marathon Campaign

Every year, Pune hosts an international marathon, where 50,000+ people participate. We decided to participate and promote TEDxPune with a poster campaign.

TEDxPune volunteers were standing at various corners of the marathon route with TEDxPune posters, and explained the concept of TEDx and TEDxPune to anyone that was interested.

TEDxYouthDay and Watching the Livestream of TEDxYouth@NASA



TEDxPune Creativity Workshop

Participants were asked to create a parachute from waste — a teacup, thread — with limited time.

TEDxChange Event and Poster Campaign

Slum Salons

Pune consists of poor people, as well rich people. Ideas have no boundaries, and we decided to host events in communities where people dont have access to internet and technology. We introduced TED and TEDx to people in these slum communities and showed people how to host their own TEDx event.

TEDxPune

Barry Newstaed  — the Global Development Director at Wikipedia — spoke at TEDxPune to celebrate 10th Anniversary of Wikipedia.

The Show must go on, inspiration must go on.

Written by Abhishek Suryawanshi, TEDxPune Curator.

Reposted from Lib’s Blog: http://libs-spot.blogspot.com/2011/10/ideas-worth-spreading.html While in Jaipur, we met up for a coffee with a delightful young man Ajit, who had mounted TEDxJaipur last year and has another conference being planned for this year. Ajit had been introduced by Becca, who works for TED and is a former MBA student of mine. Ajit works in the family business making technology equipment for the dairy industry in India and other southeastern Asian countries. What a delightful young man, full of enthusiasm spreading good ideas, and bringing together people who are interested in ideas. He has some great plans for his conference to keep attendees totally engaged, and some fascinating speakers already lined up. He was keen to hear what I’d learned as curator of TEDxIB@York last year, and we had a lively discussion of what makes for a good TEDx and how to wring the best out of speakers. It was great to hear what he’d learned and how he experience differed a bit between Canada and India.Chris Anderson has truly succeeded in his vision of making TED a global community -when you can walk into a foreign country and have instant rapport with someone who shares a passion for expanding their knowledge and impressions of the world and for ideas worth spreading. Written by Lib Gibson, TEDxIB@York Organizer

Reposted from Lib’s Blog: http://libs-spot.blogspot.com/2011/10/ideas-worth-spreading.html

While in Jaipur, we met up for a coffee with a delightful young man Ajit, who had mounted TEDxJaipur last year and has another conference being planned for this year. Ajit had been introduced by Becca, who works for TED and is a former MBA student of mine.

Ajit works in the family business making technology equipment for the dairy industry in India and other southeastern Asian countries. What a delightful young man, full of enthusiasm spreading good ideas, and bringing together people who are interested in ideas. He has some great plans for his conference to keep attendees totally engaged, and some fascinating speakers already lined up. He was keen to hear what I’d learned as curator of TEDxIB@York last year, and we had a lively discussion of what makes for a good TEDx and how to wring the best out of speakers. It was great to hear what he’d learned and how he experience differed a bit between Canada and India.

Chris Anderson has truly succeeded in his vision of making TED a global community -when you can walk into a foreign country and have instant rapport with someone who shares a passion for expanding their knowledge and impressions of the world and for ideas worth spreading.

Written by Lib Gibson, TEDxIB@York Organizer