Melinda Gates Convenes TEDXChange on September 20
Melinda Gates is convening TEDXChange on September 20 from 8:00-9:30AM PDT. You can RSVP for the global webcast on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130798866945779. Here's the letter from the Gates Foundation website:
Can one person affect the world?
I’ve personally seen that, yes, anyone can have a huge impact. Whether it’s a mother-in-law in India learning a new way to ensure that her grandchild is born safely, or a medic administering lifesaving polio vaccines to hundreds of children—small acts add up. The future is not fixed. We all have a hand in how it plays out.
More than a decade ago, Bill and I realized that we all live in a unique time in history—where technological advances and social innovations can help save millions of lives. I’m excited to share some of the incredible work being done, and to ask you for your help.
On September 20, 2010, the foundation and TED will be co-hosting TEDxChange, a chance to reflect on the Millennium Development Goals ten years in, and to look forward to where we’ll be.
What does the future hold for global health and development? And how can we all be a part of making a better world? My hope is that TEDxChange will act as a catalyst for our continued conversations about the future we will make together.
RSVP on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130798866945779)
In all the work we’ve done as a foundation, we’ve looked to partners, communities, leaders, and individuals to help us learn and grow in our mission. We need your help, and we want to hear from you. Please join the conversation via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or the foundation’s blog, and thank you for all that you do.
- Melinda F. Gates
Can one person affect the world?
I’ve personally seen that, yes, anyone can have a huge impact. Whether it’s a mother-in-law in India learning a new way to ensure that her grandchild is born safely, or a medic administering lifesaving polio vaccines to hundreds of children—small acts add up. The future is not fixed. We all have a hand in how it plays out.
More than a decade ago, Bill and I realized that we all live in a unique time in history—where technological advances and social innovations can help save millions of lives. I’m excited to share some of the incredible work being done, and to ask you for your help.
On September 20, 2010, the foundation and TED will be co-hosting TEDxChange, a chance to reflect on the Millennium Development Goals ten years in, and to look forward to where we’ll be.
What does the future hold for global health and development? And how can we all be a part of making a better world? My hope is that TEDxChange will act as a catalyst for our continued conversations about the future we will make together.
RSVP on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130798866945779)
In all the work we’ve done as a foundation, we’ve looked to partners, communities, leaders, and individuals to help us learn and grow in our mission. We need your help, and we want to hear from you. Please join the conversation via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or the foundation’s blog, and thank you for all that you do.
- Melinda F. Gates
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Comment by deborah on July 30, 2010 at 11:37am -
In June billionaire Bill Gates encouraged lawmakers to raise public subsidies for clean-tech R&D funding to $16 billion annually. Gates explained that much of what is called free-market innovation was helped by government subsidies: "The Internet and the microprocessor, which were very fundamental to Microsoft being able to take the magic of software and having the PC explode, were among many of the elements that came through government research and development." http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/16-8
All good but why doesn't he then give back some of his gain to support USA green economies/energy?
Green tech and energy is necessary for the health of all life - in the end it is really "the issue"
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