2009 TEDxJohannesburg Talks


Richard Mulholland	The Map is Not the Territory For years the prevailing wisdom for innovation has been to ask why not? What's new? What's different? And yet innovation has been reduced to evolution and incremental change. Why? Simply... Read more ... because we're good at what we do... and if it ain't broke - don't fix it. Legacide sets out to get us to fix what's workin', and to get people to ask why a whole lot more. Why? Because life is a lot more interesting when there's a chance that what you know to be true... could very well be wrong.
Annah Mabunda	The Things We Do Not Think of The Things We Do Not Think of
Glenda Tutt	It's a Chick Thing Communities affected by poverty are largely held together by women and CBO's run by women. Women living in these communities do not have access to adequate sanitary ware (tampons/pads) if any at all.... Read more ... at all. Part of uplifting communities is solving problems at the most basic level.
Marc Anthony Zimm...	The Universe is made up of Stories, not Bits and Atoms. In a world where the supply of technology and stuff ( bits & atoms) exceeds the demand and where nearly 3 billion people live on US$2 or less per day, The Broccoli... Read more ... Project uses the pioneering thinking of
Guy Lieberman	'Second Nature - The Biomimicry Evolution' The screening of a short promo of a film at TEDXJohannesburg, as part of Claire Janisch's presentation.
Toby Shapshak	How to Hack the (Telecoms) System How to Hack the (Telecoms) System
Shane Immelman	It will NEVER work! It will NEVER work!
Prof. Maggie Momba	Water, Water Sparsely Here and Not Much Fit to Drink We all need water to live, yet this most precious substance is ignored, abducted, squandered and unappreciated. Why is something that should be free be stolen? How can... Read more ... How can water be dangerous to those living with AIDS? If we choose to get our own, how do we find it and store it? What should we know about water that can save our lives?
Malan Joubert	How I Call It I’d like to speak about how certain communities, who have previously had excruciatingly restricted access to even the most basic health care services, can now increasingly experience access to quality health... Read more ... health care and critical services – through opportunities and solutions created by employing mobile technology.
Prof. Clarke Scholtz	Why SA is not kilometres Deep in Crap or, Why You Should Avoid Running Over Elephant Dung
Susan Woolf	Zaps and other Signs Zaps and other Signs I will take the audience on an adventure, a ride in the vehicle of taxi hand signs. I will tell the story of an artist in Gauteng learning the story of unspoken communication and the discoveries of... Read more ... of history, innovation and uniqueness expressed almost unknowingly by millions of people, every day.
Steve Barnett	The Silent Conductor I'm bringing an orchestra into the venue with me. Few of the players know one another. None of the players will have rehearsed. Few, in fact, have ever played an instrument...
Hennie Eksteen	How Earthworms Save the World Most people know about the importance of earthworms for soil fertility but how many know about their more important role as soil de-contaminators? I will explain how earthworms can be used in... Read more ... used in organic waste management, water purification and reclaiming land after mining and oil spills.
Nhlanhla Buthelezi	Talking in English My talk is based on personal experience, with a key focus on literacy. I could not speak, read or write fluent English until November 1999. It was through my stout love for poetry that I was truly... Read more ... truly empowered. I would like to highlight the role that literacy plays in truly transforming one's ability to influence the world substantially.
Verity	Out of the Box and into the Web My talk focuses on the fact that extraordinary questions lead to extraordinary solutions & how, by asking new questions, I have innovated in the music industry & developed an alternative album funding model that has allowed me to use... Read more ... media to create my success as a recording artist. This four year journey has taught me about the power of a crazy idea to change the way things are done. The presentation talks about my journey of discovery and the unexpected miracles I have encountered along the way.
Karen Michelle Br...	Writing the Future As a nation, and world, of storytellers we have come full circle. Wisdom first came from the elders as we sat at their knees, then as families dispersed into the global village of the industrial age, only... Read more ... age, only a few chosen stories, deemed important, were published for the global family to read-hear. Now that we have entered the digital age, with blogs, cellphones and self-publishing, we can all tell our stories again.
Claire Janisch	Survival to Thrival My talk focuses on Biomimicry Innovation in South Africa. I'll give a brief introduction to a new documentary of Janine Benyus in South Africa, followed by some inspirational ideas for Biomimicry in... Read more ... in South Africa - how we can adapt & evolve and create conditions conducive to life. Thinking beyond sustainability survival to thrival.
Marcus Neustetter	Moments of Inspiration and Playful Interventions My talk focuses on artistic interventions as a tool for upliftment and change. I'll address various innovative projects that activate and stimulate communities through... Read more ... playful, developmental and challenging interventions. I hope to broaden minds and shift perspectives by reflecting on a decade of uplifting, collaborative projects, to inspire and pose critical questions.
Scott Colin Cundil	Plant a Seed, Save our Species
Iain Thomas	This Talk is For You Started in 2007, I Wrote This For You is an online collaborative project written by Iain Thomas (South Africa) and photographed by Jon Ellis (Japan). They’ve never met. Each day of the working week,... Read more ... week, Iain Thomas posts a picture from Jon and a small message to a person they call ‘You.’

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