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Session 4: Reinventing Development

Sendhil Mullainathan – Behavioral Economist

• Science of making choices

• “We all have ways of understanding problems. But the mental problem doesn’t match reality”

• The last mile problem is actually a last mile opportunity – to tackle use

marketing/art/science/psychology/

• My fav quote: “We tend to think the problem is solved when we solve the technology. But the

human problem remains.”


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 it is to believe that change is possible”

• Idea that parents in slums put children to work is due to lack of opportunity

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

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

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

• Quality creates its own demand – scale will come


Dr. Asher Hasan– TED Fellow

“Transcend our differences to celebrate diversity to leverage humanity”


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


Mallika Dutt-Audience Speaker

• Violence against women

• Created Ring the Bell campaign to fight domestic violence


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

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

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

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 don’t need norm-changing paradigms, but we need rapid diffusion for rapid transformation”

• “We are 40% over the planet’s carrying capacity”

• Design thinking for effective social change


Margaret Stewart - Audience Speaker

• Democratization of media will lead to economic development and political change – Stewart


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


Laskhmi Pratury - TEDIndia Co-Host

If you’re not standing on the edge, you’re occupying too much space!


Kavita Ramdas - Philanthropist from Global Fund for Women

• Men are also affected by the choices and rules that discriminate against women


Check out the Piano Staircase video

http://thefuntheory.com/


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 the human potential to bounce back, to recover”

• The most important way to help someone heal besides psychological and economic rehab is through

believing in them

Session 6: Green and Blue

Charles AndersonMarine Biologist

•“I found out: they’re following the rain! When India has rain, dragonflies are there”

• “Dragonfly migrations are getting earlier – an indication that the climate is getting warmer”


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!”


Alexis OhanianReddit Founder

• “It’s 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 with losing control.”


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

• “Over 75 million sharks are killed every year. 100% of the world’s fisheries will be extinct by 2050.”

• Looking forward to his film Oceans – expected release date 2010

Session 7: Power of Stories

Ramachandra BudihalTechno-heritage imagineer

• How do you captivate the past and export it to people?

• “We don’t enter the future, we create it. And we create what we imagine”

• Created a system called E3iT (Engage, Entertain, Educate, Immerse Technology) – the E3iT system brings to life and presents information regarding

historical buildings


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

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

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


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 it’s 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.”


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”


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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