Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!
TED Talk: When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naïve. In this funny and impassioned talk, he proposes that the first step is to listen to the people you're trying to help, and tap into their own entrepreneurial spirit. His advice on what works will help any entrepreneur.
Global Health, Design Thinking and Social Justice
Isaac Holeman is an ethnographer and design thinker striving for global health equity. As a Gates Cambridge Scholar and a founding director of the award-winning social enterprise Medic Mobile, his work is about seeing through the eyes of the poor and marginalised and responding pragmatically.
Kevin Starr, Mulago Foundation director, looks for the best solutions to the biggest problems in the poorest countries. He thinks all projects need to answer four questions: Is it needed? Does it work? Will it get to those who need it? Will they use it correctly when they get it? Too many bad ideas are using up our limited resources and that needs to change.
David Damberger discusses "Learning From Failure" at TEDxYYC 2011.David is the founder of Engineers Without Borders Calgary (EWB). After building the organization in Calgary and working with them in India, David spent four years building EWB's overseas programs as the Director of Southern African Programs.