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Video recorded at TEDxChange in Amsterdam on 20 September 2010.

Pascal Katana is a young Kenyan university graduate who set up The Young Innovators Club together with his business partner. Their aim is provide tools that empower the growth of technology. Due to one of their inventions, a stable communication was achieved in rural areas of Kenya where there is no national electricity grid available and hence helped in boosting the Kenyan economy.

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Video recorded at TEDxChange in Amsterdam on 20 September 2010.

Bill Liao is an Australian entrepreneur, business mentor, philanthropist, diplomat, author and speaker with a distinguished record in the areas of business, development and community activism. He is a co-founder of XING, a pioneering social networking platform, and CEO of Finaxis AG, a privately held company in the financial services industry. Bill also mentors entrepreneurs in the making, from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.

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Video recorded at TEDxChange in Amsterdam on 20 September 2010.

Tonee Ndugu is a Media Consultant with a specialty in New and Rich Media Tools & Applications. He is the founder of the Wazimba Youth Foundation which is an African youth I.T. out-reach organization that educates and emphasizes on the use of Internet based media, tools and social networks among teens in Africa. He is a Leadership Motivational Speaker, one of the organizers of the very first TEDxKibera and a Social Media enthusiast. Tonee heads up the international office of the 1% club in Kenya which is an online marketplace for small development projects where citizen and companies can contribute 1% of their income, time and knowledge to a project of their own choice. Last year, Tonee started a new initiative, namely an ICT Incubator: NAiLAB in Nairobi.

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Video recorded at TEDxChange in Amsterdam on 20 September 2010.

In one of the poorest countries in the world, Mme Consolata Ndayishimiye inspired many female entrepreneurs to build up their own company and with that also their self-respect after the terrible events the country went through. Recently she got a new assignment so that she can continue her motivating activities on a national scale.

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Armed with bracing logic, wit and her “public-health nerd” glasses, Elizabeth Pisani reveals the myriad of inconsistencies in today’s political systems that prevent our dollars from effectively fighting the spread of HIV. Her research with at-risk populations — from junkies in prison to sex workers on the street in Cambodia — demonstrates the sometimes counter-intuitive measures that could stall the spread of this devastating disease.

Elizabeth Pisani uses unconventional field research to understand how real-world behaviors influence AIDS transmission — and to overhaul antiquated, ineffective prevention strategies. She spoke at TED in 2010.

Against a backdrop of crime and general lack in the slums of Nairobi, Mark Kamau, born in 1980, grew up not only dreaming of a better future but also grabbing every chance that came his way to create the future of which he dreamed. This happened in 2000 when he managed to register himself at web design school NairoBits (founded by the Dutch foundation Butterfly Works).

Calling himself the ‘Slumdog Manager’, he gave an inspiring talk at TEDxAmsterdam on his journey out of the slums of Kenya and the future of African aid. He suggested that the way in which he had been helped could serve as an example: Africa needs intelligent engagement over aid, he said. His simple and powerful speech earned a standing ovation.

TEDxAmsterdam took place last year on November 20 2009, in the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam. The Royal Tropical Institute aims to contribute to sustainable economic development, health, poverty alleviation, sharing knowledge, cultural preservation and cultural exchange. The Institute’s President Jan Donner explains.

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