Xavier Sala-i-Martin: Six Common Myths in the field of Economic Growth
Xavier Sala-i-Martin does some myth-busting. He suggests that if innovation is essentially regular people coming up with ideas and implementing them, innovation policy should include educating the masses to come up with ideas too, not just elites to be scientists but to include the poor and facilitate implementation in ALL sectors, in ALL countries.
Bahia Shehab: A Thousand times NO
Art historian Bahia Shehab has long been fascinated with the Arabic script for ‘No.’ When revolution swept through Egypt in 2011, she began spraying the image in the streets saying NO to Dictators, NO to military rule and NO to violence.
David Blood: A New Paradigm for Finance
David Blood brings a pragmatic approach to the world of social finance and aims to encourage businesses around the world to be more responsible, ethical and sustainable.
David Goulait: Enable Innovation
David Goulait believes it’s important to understand that when you’re charting your career path it’s important to know what you’re getting into, why and what you’re going to do with it. In his own experience, he recognised that this created his direction and his career intent of making it better.
Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) Transform Government
The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub, so why can’t Governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, not only to be transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their […]
