Most of the world still lacks adequate technology which hurts business growth, slows aid to disaster victims, and keeps people from communicating with each other. NetHope is the bridge across the technology gap. We bring together the world's leading humanitarian groups and high tech companies in a common cause, which multiplies the power of these groups. The narrator is Frank Schott, Global Program Director at NetHope.

Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000). April 2011.

Open Source Ecology Website is here.

TED takes a look at health and medicine with a conference each year. The 2013 TEDMed conference is April 16-19 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Their YouTube channel features nearly 200 videos from previous conferences.

At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it's imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-based health care for all. Eric Dishman is an Intel Fellow and director of health innovation and policy for Intel's Digital Health Group.

Dr. Negroponte of MIT gives remarks on the future of video technology. Producd by Bobby Barredo. He talks about physical convergence leading to convergence of lifestyles. Our lives no longer partitioned and this co-mingling is the future. For this to happen, things must be made simpler

Author of WeThink Charles Leadbeater talks about how web communities are revisiting older, more traditional forms of order.

Dr. Wartena is CEO, President, and Founder of Growing Energy Labs, Inc (GELI) in San Francisco, California. In this video he asks, why haven't we used solar all these years and how the Internet of Energy addresses the major roadblock - storage. Much as Google’s founders foresaw the potential of the web to deliver relevant information to the masses, GELI sees that the Internet — together with renewable energy generation and storage — as the ultimate solution enabling clean, affordable energy for anyone, anywhere.