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The TED Prize wish: What you can do to end anonymous companies
Global Issues

The TED Prize wish: What you can do to end anonymous companies

By Natasha Scripture Anti-corruption activist Charmian Gooch stood up on stage at TED2014 tonight and revealed her TED Prize wish: to get ri...

Mar 20, 2014
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Video: Smile if you’d like to end anonymous companies
Global Issues

Video: Smile if you’d like to end anonymous companies

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1O97HZev7A&w=586&h=330] Transparency isn’t just a nice-to-do for businesses. It’s essential...

Mar 18, 2014
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What are anonymous companies? An infographic
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What are anonymous companies? An infographic

At TED2014, Charmian Gooch made the TED Prize wish to launch a new era of openness in business and end the phenomenon of anonymous companies...

Mar 18, 2014
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An update on my non-profit credit rating agency, which could revolutionize how economies are graded
Global Issues

An update on my non-profit credit rating agency, which could revolutionize how economies are graded

Eight months after my talk at TEDGlobal 2013, much progress has been made on the International Non-profit Credit Rating Agency (INCRA) conce...

Feb 28, 2014
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Last night in the TED office: War Stories
Global Issues

Last night in the TED office: War Stories

War isn’t easy to talk about. TED’s Juliet Blake knows this first-hand — she is the daughter of German Jews who never spoke about the ...

Jan 16, 2014
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Real advice for those who’ve attempted suicide, and want to step back into life
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Real advice for those who’ve attempted suicide, and want to step back into life

By JD Schramm* In my TED Talk, I acknowledged for the first time that, in 2003, I tried to end my life. I wanted to share this in a public s...

Jan 14, 2014
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A giant step backward: Fellows Friday with Nitin Rao, who speaks out on India’s recriminalizing of homosexuality
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A giant step backward: Fellows Friday with Nitin Rao, who speaks out on India’s recriminalizing of homosexuality

In a major setback last week for the LGBT community, an Indian Supreme Court ruling upheld Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code — a 15...

Dec 20, 2013
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Global Issues

Awesome new video: A cell phone tool to help micro-entrepreneurs get loans

In the developing world, would-be entrepreneurs are easily able to get microloans. But getting access to formal financial institutions &#821...

Dec 18, 2013
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Drones to deliver medicine and food? Drones for disaster relief? 6 ways a physical internet could do good
Global Issues

Drones to deliver medicine and food? Drones for disaster relief? 6 ways a physical internet could do good

Andreas Raptopoulos and his colleagues at Matternet are attempting to create a network of drones that operate like the internet, only for ta...

Nov 21, 2013
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