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change .the world and make a difference? . Yes.Visit www.ted.com and meet a whole set of individuals who look at the same things as the rest of us, get ideas and act on them and spread these ideas to the world. TED is a conference in which inspiring individuals are invited to talk about their current work, and each talk is posted on www.ted. com. Each little video clip is pas., sionate, compelling and informa., tive. The speakers launch straight into what they have to say in subjects ranging from medicine, archaeology, nanotech, neurology,psychiatry, global warming, arts and design, culture, technology and development, entertainment, slavery in the present day and other global issues. There are live performances and storYtelling too, but even here, we can expectthe unexpected. Take for example, Iqbal Qadir, an investment banker from New York who is originally from Bangladesh. He addresses the question of why poverty persists in this day and age. He believes that economic development should be for the

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people, by the people and of the people and that empowerment of the people is the only wayto lift them from poverty. He also believed that 'connectivity is productivity' and brought a mobile phone system to impoverished Bangladesh and contributed to the country's economic development. How did this work? Watch hIs talk to fInd out. There are more such examples. Fin9.out about why bee colonies are disappearing all over the world at an alarming rate, look at pictures of people from remote cultures like Ecuador, see a real sputnik and a meteorite or listen to stories told with emoticons. TED is an annual conference launched in'1984 with a mission to air "ideas worth spreading". TED believes thatthe power of ideas will change attitudes and this will result in inspiring the

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