Apropriate Development

I plan on writing a longer post about this later, but my husband and I watched a documentary on the TED Prize and Conference last night. It's a conference that is invite-only with many speakers and presenters and three awardees that are given a prize of $100,000 for their world changing project. The winners are also asked to make a wish that they present at the conference. Presenting to an audience filled with famous and not so famous but all brilliant minds puts the idea into motion. One of these ideas began the One.org project. The audience pays a hefty fee to be at the conference, but they are surrounded by motivated people who want to better the world, and by being with these other people, they are able to network and probably make a good amount of money for their corporation, or project, or support for their ideas. In the documentary that was done on the 2006 awards, there were architects that were working on sustainable projects, college students working on cancer research, MIT professors and students who were working on new computer designs, the founder of Google, the founder of the One Laptop project, Al Gore, and many, many more impressive people. www.ted.com will take you to some information about it.