Local hero: Fellows Friday with Faisal Chohan
Tech geek and entrepreneur Faisal Chohan builds online solutions and services with social value — including Pakreport, which crowdsour...
An uphill battle to reclaim “jihad”: A Q&A with Bobby Ghosh
TIME Editor-at-Large Bobby Ghosh covers global affairs and the Middle East. For five years he served as the magazine’s Baghdad bureau ...
A TEDx dedicated to ideas for rural communities
The TED stage features a red circular carpet and light-up letters, the look far more sleek than rustic. But at TEDxGuatavita, the stage was ...
Foreign Policy releases its list of the 100 Top Global Thinkers, including 17 TED speakers
Foreign Policy magazine has picked its annual list of the 100 Top Global Thinkers and, nestled among their ranks, are many a TED Speaker. Be...
On our must-see list: James Balog’s “Chasing Ice”
Photographer James Balog grew up skeptical about climate change. But in 2005, he headed to Iceland on assignment for National Geographic and...
An anthem for the campaign to end violence against women
One billion is certainly in the zeitgeist. V-day, the global campaign founded by four-time TED speaker Eve Ensler to end violence against wo...
9 talks about innovation in India
[ted id=1614 width=560 height=315] Arunachalam Muruganantham may not seem like the most obvious person to have started a revolution in sanit...
The World Bank’s open data: 7 apps to explore
[ted id=1599 width=560 height=315] Sanjay Pradhan was thrilled when, at age six, a cart full of sweets was wheeled to his family’s doorstep ...
Video: ‘Why I organized a TEDx in Baghdad’
. In this exclusive (unedited) video from TEDxSummit this spring, Yahay Alabdeli tells a moving, personal story of returning to his home cou...