[:ja]TEDxFukuokaChange 4月4日開催![:en]Join us at TEDxFukuokaChange! April 4, 2013[:]

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TEDとビル&メリンダ・ゲイツ財団(Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)による『TEDxChange 2013』 は4月3日、米国ワシントン州、シアトルにて 太平洋夏時間9:00amより開催されます。

疾病や貧困の撲滅、教育の普及や生活環境の改善等へ情熱を傾け続けるメリンダ・フレンチ・ゲイツが主導するこのTEDxChangeの今年のテーマは「Positive Disruption=未来のためのポジティブな”断絶”」です。

TEDxChange 2013 のスピーカー達は私達の持つ先入観に対して、はっとするような疑問を投げかけて行きます。TEDxの目的である対話を生み出し、革新を起こすリーダーシップを持つ人々を巻き込み、新たなものの見方に光を当てて行くこの試みが今年も行われます。TED.comよりTEDxChangeについてライブ中継が提供され、4月4日にTEDxFukuokaChangeとして開催されるイベントにて公開されます。 

シアトル現地開催時間: April 3, 2013 at 9:00am PDT

ホスト: Melinda Gates メリンダ・ゲイツ

TEDxChange Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/tedxchange/app_372343762873466

 

スピーカーラインアップ:テーマ(オンデマンド中継:数点字幕を付ける予定です)

  • Cathleen Kaveny: Religion, tradition, and modernity キャスリーン・カヴニー:宗教、伝統、そして現代性

法学/神学教授 John P. Murphy財団 

Cathleen Kavenyはアメリカの法学者であり神学者です。1995年から現在まで、ノートルダムロースクールにて法学及び神学のJohn P. Murphy財団の教授として活躍し、現在はプリンストン大学に客員教授として勤めています。今回のTEDxChangeでは、彼女のユニークな視点で宗教的伝統と現代の生活の融合について語ります。

  • Halimatou Hima: Investing in girls ハリマトゥー・ヒマ:女の子達への投資

UNICEF(国際連合児童基金本部)ニジェール事務所

Halimatou Hima は、ハーバード大学ケネディ政治学大学院の公共法政策修士課程の学生で、UFN(国連財団)の女性・人口課でのインターンシップを経験した後、母国ニジェールにて国連の児童保護課で活躍しています(UNICEF: 国際連合児童基金本部)。今回のTEDxChange では、女性の決められた道をポジティブに破壊するために、少女たちへの投資がいかに重要であるかを話します。

  • Roger Thurow: Shifts in agriculture ロジャー・ソーロウ:いま、農業で興っている変革

シニア・フェロー グローバル農業・食糧政策 The Chicago Council 

記者であり作家である Roger Thurowは、ウォール・ストリート・ジャーナルに30年間勤めた後、2010年1月にChicago Council on Global Affairsに加わりました。また20年間、ヨーロッパとアフリカに拠点をおく海外特派員としても活躍していました。Rogerは、自然農業サイクルに対する”破壊”における人間と技術の役割について、また彼がこの領域に関心と熱意を持つきっかけとなった、1980年代のエチオピア大飢饉について話します。

  • Julie Dixon: Social Change ジュリー・ディクソン:社会変革

次長 ソーシャル・インパクト・コミュニケーション・センター、ジョージタウン大学(Georgetown University) 

Julie Dixonは、現在ジョージタウン大学のソーシャル・インパクト・コミュニケーション・センター(CSIC)の次長を勤めてます。CSICは、社会変革でエンゲージメントを促進するものとして、コミュニケーションの重要性について調査する学問的イニシアティブです。Julieは、人々の社会問題への関わり方がソーシャルメディアによって”破壊”されることについて、またその破壊によって非営利セクターのこれまでの寄付者に頼ったモデルがどのように変わる可能性があるかについて語ります。

  • David Fasanya: Youth poet デイビッド・ファサニャ:青年詩人

詩人

David Fasanyaは、ナイジェリアン・アメリカンのパフォーマンスアーティストであり、若くして受賞歴のあるニューヨーク州ブルックリン在住の詩人です。

  • Salim Shekh and Sikha Patra: Vaccine advocates サリーム・シェイクシカー・パトラ:ワクチンを利用しましょう!

青少年指導者、スラムエリアにおける地域活動のティーンエイジャー・リーダー

Salim Shekh と Sikha Patraは、彼らが住むスラム街での地域活動において若き教育者でありティーンエイジャー・リーダーです。彼らは勉強と仕事を両立しながら、街の子供たちをリードしてきました。このセッションでは、コルカタのスラム街で子どもたちが人々の命を救っていく様子を描いた映画「Revolutionary Optimists (革命的楽天家)」の予告編映画を放映すると共に、主演のSalim と Sikhaの二人がステージに登壇し皆さんの質問に答えます。

 

ライブスピーカー

  • 杉本 真樹 神戸大学 医学博士 外科医 教育者 イノベーター
神戸大学大学院医学研究科特命講師。オープンソース医用画像処理ソフトウェアOsiriXをはじめ、医療ITシステム、手術ナビゲーション、次世代低侵襲内視鏡手術や手術ロボット、3Dプリンターによる生体質感造形など、最先端医療技術の研究発展に寄与。
 
  • 岡田 昌治 グラミン・クリエイティブ・ラボ@九大 エグゼクティブディレクター
1979年電電公社に入社。NTTグループ、特に米国子会社のNTTアメリカ(NY)、インターネット・ビジネスのNTT-Xなどにおいて国際法務を中心に幅広くNTTの国際ビジネスを担当。在米9年のキャリアとインターネット・プロジェクトやベンチャー・インキュベーションの経験は豊富。2001年NTT退職後、2002年10月より九州大学法科大学院にて「契約実務」、「インターネットと法」、「国際企業法務」等の講座を担当するとともに、知的財産本部において産学官連携の推進に携わる。2008年より、ノーベル平和賞受賞者のムハマド・ユヌス氏(バングラデッシュ)とソーシャル・ビジネスの推進のための国内外のプロジェクトを担当する。もっとも、ユヌス氏に近い日本人。2011年4月より現職。
 
  • ブルーノ・デルコン 国連人間居住計画(ハビタット) 福岡本部(アジア太平洋担当) 人間居住専門官
ブルーノ・デルコンは国連人間居住計画(ハビタット)のシニア・スタッフで、パキスタン、インドネシア、ミャンマー等を支援する福岡本部(アジア太平洋担当)に所属。また中国−アジア間の協力におけるフォーカル・ポイントでもある。エンジニアの経歴を持ち、環境マネジメントやコーポ—レート・ガバナンスを学ぶ。アジアにおけるソーシャル・ハウジング、都市整備、地域計画の課題に20年以上携わる。貧困な都市部や地方近郊で生活する事から学び、地震、洪水、紛争などの後に発生する大規模な居住問題や地域開発プログラムに従事するようになった。コミュニティーのエンパワメントと再建に関する書籍や映画の著書、編集にも携わる。福岡の国連ハビタットでは、日本やアジアのパートナーの革新的環境計画とマネジメント・ソリューション、持続可能な輸送を支援する。
 

開催概要

  1. 日時:4/4 (木) (開場:17:30) 18:00~21:00 
  • MC+90分オンデマンド中継 18:00-19:40
  • ディスカッション 19:40-20:00
  • ライブスピーカー 2-3名 各10分程度 20:00-20:40
  • ディスカッション 20:40-21:00
  1. 会場:大央ホール (福岡市中央区大名2-6-1 福岡国際ビル B1F) 
    会場内は飲食禁止です。(ペットボトル等ふた付きのソフトドリンクは可)
  2. 参加募集人数上限 60名
  3. 参加費:社会人 2,000 円 学生 1,000円

☆☆☆申し込みはPeaTiX(http://peatix.com/event/11634)より受け付けています。

TEDxChange 2013 is a TEDx event co-organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and TED. Convened by Melinda French Gates. TEDxChange will focus on issues surrounding global health and development. TEDxChange type events are TEDx events hosted around the live webcast of TEDxChange, and also feature local speakers. Our event is called TEDxFukuokaChange, and is one of many TEDx events happening around the globe on April 3rd that will expand on the ideas brought up at TEDxChange 2012.
 

 

 

 

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Join us at TEDxFukuokaChange!

TEDxFukuokaChange will be held on Thursday, April 4th, Thursday, in Fukuoka City. This TEDx event will feature an on-demand screening of TEDxChange, hosted by Melinda Gates from the Gates Foundation campus in Seattle, Washington, USA. We will also be highlighting a few live local speakers who exhibit the TEDxChange theme of, ‘Positive Disruption.’ For more information on TEDxChange 2013, visit http://www.ted.com/pages/tedxchange_2013.

TEDxFukuokaChange Event

Date: Thursday, April 4th

Time: 18:00 – 21:00 (Doors open at 17:30)

Place: Daio Hall, Fukuoka Kokusai Building B1, 2-6-1 Daimyo, Chuo Ward, Fukuoka

Cost: 2,000 Yen/Adult and 1,000 Yen/Student, JET, ALT

Apply here: PeaTiX: (http://peatix.com/event/11634)

Capacity: 60 people

  • 18:00 – 19:40: MC + 90 minutes: on-demand screening of TEDxChange from Seattle

  • 19:40 – 20:00: Discussion

  • 20:00 – 20:40: Three live local speakers (10 minutes each)

  • 20:40 – 21:00: Discussion

TEDxChange: Positive Disruption Speaker Line-up

  • Melinda Gates (Host)

    Melinda Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Along with Bill Gates, she shapes and approves the foundation’s strategies, reviews results, and sets the overall direction of the organization. Together they meet with grantees and partners to further the foundation’s goal of improving equity in the United States and around the world. While involved in all of the organization’s endeavors, Gates believes that empowering women in developing countries to decide whether and when to have a child is a critical driver of her work at the foundation, since this decision can be the source of transformational improvements in the health and prosperity of whole societies. Gates received a master’s degree in business administration from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in 1987. After joining Microsoft in 1987, she was appointed as Microsoft’s general manager of Information Products. In 1996, Gates left the organization, and since then has directed her energy toward the nonprofit world.

  • Cathleen Kaveny: Religion, tradition, and modernity

    M. Cathleen Kaveny is the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, and is currently a visiting professor at Princeton University. Dr. Kaveny focuses her academic work on the intersection of religion, law, and morality. She is the author of Law’s Virtues: Fostering Autonomy and Solidarity in American Society and the forthcoming Prophecy without Contempt: An Ethics of Religious Discourse in the Public Square. She has also authored more than a hundred articles and essays in both scholarly and popular journals. She is a regular columnist for Commonweal. Professor Kaveny is a member of numerous professional societies and has served on a number of editorial boards in both law and religion. In January 2013, she was elected to the vice-presidency of the Society of Christian Ethics. She earned both her J.D. and her Ph.D. from Yale University.

  • Halimatou Hima: Investing in girls

    Halimatou Hima was born in Niger, where she served as the first president of the Youth Parliament at age fifteen. During her tenure, she engaged various stakeholders for national campaigns on girls’ education, especially in rural areas, among other initiatives. She earned a scholarship to the United World College and Wellesley College, where she joined a small group of students to build Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance. Upon her graduation in 2010, Halimatou worked extensively in rural Niger on child marriage, girls’ education, and youth participation with Unicef. She independently spearheaded microenterprise programs with women. Halimatou—selected in 2011 as one of “Africa’s 25 top emerging women leaders under 25 for their commitment to service”—is a candidate for a master’s degree in public policy (MPP) at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

  • Roger Thurow: Shifts in agriculture

    Roger Thurow joined The Chicago Council on Global Affairs as senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy in January 2010 after three decades at The Wall Street Journal. In 2012, he also became a fellow for the ONE Campaign. For 20 years, he served as a Journal foreign correspondent, based in Europe and Africa. In 2003, he and Journal colleague Scott Kilman wrote a series of stories on famine in Africa that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. Their reporting on humanitarian and development issues was also honored by the United Nations. Thurow and Kilman are authors of the book ENOUGH: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. In 2009, they were awarded Action Against Hunger’s Humanitarian Award. They also received the 2009 Harry Chapin Why Hunger book award. In May 2012, Thurow published his second book, The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change.

  • Salim Shekh and Sikha Patra: Vaccine advocates

Salim Shekh, a boy of 15 years, lives in a polluted slum in East Kolkata, India. Sikha Patra, a girl of 15 years, lives in an Indian slum called Neheru Colony. This dynamic duo has been engaged in eradicating polio from their community, developing a map which they plan to share online with the global audience to make their invisible community visible. Sikha and Salim are child advisors to Prayasam, an India-based NGO that has organized thousands of children in the slum areas to become peer leaders/educators, catalyzing lifestyle changes within their communities. Focusing primarily on preventive health, sanitation, and hygiene, these children are changing the physical and social environment within which they live. Currently they are negotiating with the local government to ward off diseases like dengue. Both Sikha and Salim were speakers at the Skoll World Forum held in Oxford in 2012. They spoke about the active role of the youth as the contributors as well as the change-makers of the society.

  • Julie Dixon: Social Change
  • David Fasanya: Youth poet

Local Speaker Line-up

  • Maki Sugimoto MD Ph.D, Surgeon, Educator, Innovator

As an Associate Professor at Kobe University’s Graduate School of Medicine, Dr. Maki Sugimoto has extensive experience in open source software, OsiriX medical image processing, medical IT systems, surgical navigation, endoscopic surgery, and the next generation of minimally invasive robotic surgery. Also featured in The Japan Times, Dr. Sugimoto continues to contribute to the development of cutting-edge medical technology research by enhancing bio-texture modeling technology with 3D printers and various kinds of resin materials that can reproduce bio-texture accurately.

  • Professor Masaharu Okada, Executive Director, Grameen Creative Lab @Kyushu University

Masharu Okada is a Kyusyu University law professor seeking to promote domestic and foreign social business projects. He established and is the Executive Director of the Yunus and Shiiki Social Business Research Center. Okada is an advocate of business-academia-government collaboration and has worked with the Nippon Telegraph and Telephon Public Corporation (NTT Group) in the past managing their international legal, intellectual property licence, and lobbying affairs among other duties.

  • Bruno Dercon, Human Settlements Officer, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, UN-Habitat

    Bruno Dercon is a senior staff member in the United Nations’ programme for human settlements, UN-Habitat. He is based in its Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and has been supporting UN-Habitat programme teams in Pakistan, Indonesia and Myanmar. He is also the focal point for the agency’s cooperation between China and Asia. With an engineering background, Bruno continued to study environmental management and corporate governance. He has worked for more than 20 years in Asia, on issues of social housing, urban development and regional planning. He started off living in and studying poor urban and rural neighbourhoods and engaged in large housing and regional development programmes, often after earthquakes, floods or wars. He wrote, edited and produced books and films on community empowerment and reconstruction. Within UN-Habitat’s Regional Office in Fukuoka, Japan, Bruno engages with Japanese and Asian partners on innovative environmental planning and management solutions and sustainable transportation.

     

Inquiries: info@tedxfukuoka.com

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

TEDx: TED is a nonprofit devoted to ideas worth spreading. TED believes passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives, and ultimately, the world. To this end, it hosts annual conferences exploring many of the issues facing our world. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. TEDx events combine TEDTalks videos and live speakers to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.

TEDxChange 2013 is a TEDx event co-organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and TED. Convened by Melinda French Gates. TEDxChange will focus on issues surrounding global health and development. TEDxChange type events are TEDx events hosted around the live webcast of TEDxChange, and also feature local speakers. Our event is called TEDxFukuokaChange, and is one of many TEDx events happening around the globe on April 3rd that will expand on the ideas brought up at TEDxChange 2012.

Interested in TED? Want to meet others who are enthusiastic about (ideas worth spreading?) technology, entertainment, and design? Come check out the TEDxFukuoka community and listen to TEDx speakers changing the world one step at a time. If you would like to suggest speakers for this event, feel free to contact us at info@tedxfukuoka.com. We hope to see you on April 4th!


TEDxFukuokaChange Co-Organizers Joe Okubo and Eriko Tsukamoto

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