session 4: reinventing development

8/14/2019 Session 4: Reinventing Development

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Session 4: Reinventing Development

Shukla Bose Education Activist

I wrote my obituary one day and there was nothing for me to write.So, I quit corporate life. Worked for a NGO.

All parents want their kids to lead a better life. All they need to do itis to believe that change is possible

Idea that parents in slums put children to work is due to lack ofopportunity

Crazy stat: 98% of fathers of slum children are alcoholics

It is not the infrastructure of the school that is important but thecontent within the school that matters

I Began Parikrama schools with the arrogance of transforming theworld but I am the one who has been transformed! Bose

Quality creates its own demand scale will come


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Shaffi Mather -Social Entrepreneur, Lawyer

Mather has developed ambulance access for all of

India

Uses cross-subsidy where the rich pay more, the

poor pay less and where accident victims pay

nothing for ambulances

Mather is transferring this service to Pakistan with

aid from Acumen Fund

Piloted for-profit anti-bribery service and wants to

scale it up


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Mallika Dutt-Audience Speaker

Violence against women

Created Ring the Bell campaign to fight domestic

violence


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Anil Gupta -Innovation Advocate

Minds on the margins are not marginal minds. We

have to develop technology based on the knowledge

of the poor

Scalability must not become the enemy of

sustainability

Innovations from the BOP: mobile flour grinder,,

Teflon free non-stick pan

Freedom is to look in the mirror and learn

Grassroots to Global: Honey Bee Network to share

ideas: http://www.sristi.org/cms/en/our_network


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Session 5: Redesigning Community

Banny Banerjee-Design Educator

Systems have systematically pounded design out of

us

Risk-averse behavior is very risky

Insights leading to reframing point of view to then

prototyping

We dont need norm-changing paradigms, but we

need rapid diffusion for rapid transformation

We are 40% over the planets carrying capacity

Design thinking for effective social change


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Shamsul Wares-Architect and Teacher

65% of buildings in the world are houses

Wares designed a weekend home for a client that is

used as a community center during the week


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Laskhmi Pratury -TEDIndia Co-Host

If youre not standing on the edge, youre occupying

too much space!


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Kavita Ramdas -Philanthropist from Global Fund for Women

Men are also affected by the choices and rules that

discriminate against women


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Check out the Piano Staircase video

http://thefuntheory.com/


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Sunitha Krishnan-Anti-trafficking crusader

Human trafficking, third largest organized crime

We as a civil society victimize victims stigmatize

victims of rape and sexual slavery

Break the culture of silence talk about these

stories in your limited world

The fundamental of our work is a belief in thehuman potential to bounce back, to recover

The most important way to help someone heal

besides psychological and economic rehab is through

believing in them


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Session 6: Green and Blue

Charles AndersonMarine Biologist

I found out: theyre following the rain! When India

has rain, dragonflies are there

Dragonfly migrations are getting earlier an

indication that the climate is getting warmer


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Horst RechelbacherEco-chic entrepreneur Aveda Founder

Fascination over the middle finger and the symbol it

represents

Middle finger is a Buddhist symbol. Budhha is

trying to tell you to be one. The is the meaning of

it!

Chemicals have turned our bodies toxic

Cosmetics are worse when it comes to toxins. Use

lipsticks with organically made products, also makes

it nutritious!


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Alexis OhanianReddit Founder

Its okay to take things less serious, even if it is for

a serious cause. You can still achieve your goal.

If you use social media, you have to be okay withlosing control.


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Jake Eberts, Creator of film Oceans (2010)Film Producer

Over 75 million sharks are killed every year. 100%

of the worlds fisheries will be extinct by 2050.

Looking forward to his film Oceans expectedrelease date 2010


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Session 7: Power of Stories

Ramachandra BudihalTechno-heritage imagineer

How do you captivate the past and export it to

people?

We dont enter the future, we create it. And we

create what we imagine

Created a system called E3iT (Engage, Entertain,

Educate, Immerse Technology) the E3iT systembrings to life and presents information regarding

historical buildings


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Abhay DeolBollywood Actor

You can use media and films for social change and

to highlight a cause

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LniH0ZApCiI

great commercial by Canal +

Deol mentions how people get death certificates to

avoid the police

Deol mentions that he is starting his own

production house to pursue his dreams of films for

social change


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Shekhar KapurDirector and Writer

Intersection of art, myth and activism

We prepare too much, knowledge gets in the way of

wisdom.

To tell great stories, you must get out of your mind by

putting yourself into an unplanned moment, a panic

Panic is the great axis of creativity, because its the only

way to get rid of your mind

We are the stories we tell ourselves stories that define

the potential of our existence

When you read a script, you must find your own truth in

it. This truth might even contradict the plot.

The night and day are a contradiction, but the blue in

the first morning hours is its harmony. ..Harmony is not a

resolution. Harmony is a suggestion of something much

larger than resolution.


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Ryan LoboPhotographer

Photographs can tell better stories than sensational

documentaries

The individual is the instrument in storytelling, not the

camera, the TV network

Look for excellence, rather than the results of it, and

success will arrive on its own


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Excellent Tweet comment

areebahanif: Stories being told through film, stills

and movement - This is #TEDIndia symbolic of the real

India: Land of stories and heroes


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2 fun green videos shared at

TEDIndia:

1. Plug Out Boy:

http://vimeo.com/3443886

2. Granny Wrap:

http://vimeo.com/4553886

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