Arusha, Tanzania
June 4-7, 2007
TED = Technology Entertainment Design. Il s’agit d’une organisation qui s’est donné pour mission de mettre les personnes les plus en vue de ce trois domaine, la technologie, l’amusement et le design, ensuite de propager qui sortent de ces rencontres et atelier de discussion.
L’année 2007, cette rencontre a pour la première eu lieu en Afrique, car le thème était « Africa: The next chapter » (Afrique: Le chapitre suivant). Les organsateur ont voulu montrer, mettre ensemble et permettre aux competences issus de l’Afrique de discuter ensemble sur l’avenir de leur continent. Malheureusement cela se passait dans l’Afrique anglophone, et ces deux mondes sont vraiment separé.
Nous avons tout de même choisi de faire écho de ces rencontres qui ont produits des idées très novatrices et intéressantes pour toute l’Afrique.
Pour en savoir plus visitez le site de TED
Over the past few years, a growing number of people in the TED community have become passionate about Africa, a continent that appears to be at an important tipping point. Its problems and challenges are well known. Less well known is that across the continent, change is afoot. Instead of relying only on development aid, Africans across the continent are beginning to take matters into their own hands. Ingenious solutions are being applied to tackle some of the toughest health and infrastructure problems. Businesses are being launched that are capable of transforming the lives of millions. New communication technologies are allowing ideas and information to spread, enabling markets — and governments — to be more efficient. And the numbers suggest that incomes are starting to nudge up in some countries and real growth is on the way. A new Africa beckons.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on aid versus trade
After four days of intense discussion on aid versus trade at
TEDGlobal 2007, it was up to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former Finance
Minister of Nigeria, to sum up. She asks for the discussion to
continue, and to grow more sophisticated, more nuanced. And she
brilliantly refocuses the concept of aid from westernized nations: As
she points out, these other countries could not have been built
without aid from Africa. When the US or the UK gives aid, she says,
what they are really doing is giving *back.*
CHEETAH vs HIPPO par George Ayittey
This grab-you-by the throat speech by Ghanaian economist George
Ayittey unleashes an almost breathtaking torrent of controlled anger
toward Africa’s corrupt leaders and the complacent populace that
allows them to thrive. Why, then, does he remain optimistic? Because
of the new, fast-moving « Cheetah Generation, » a « new breed of
Africans » taking their futures into their own hands, mobilizing
Africans to revive the indigenous markets and institutions that have
worked for centuries. As he says: « With Cheetahs, we can take Africa
back, one village at a time. »
