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Andrew Yu | Voluntourism and 1KG
Many marvel at China’s bamboo shooting skyscrapers, but they might have overlooked the enchanting beauty in the rural areas of this country. Each year, tens of thousands of people travel to these regions. Andrew Yu is one of such many but the only who came up with “Voluntourism”, an innovative concept behind his social enterprise [...]
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Interview with Tony Yet [Published on TED's Official Blog]»
In an effort to recognize and celebrate the extraordinary achievements of the thousands of volunteer translators working at TED’s Open Translation Project (OTP), TED has been conducting and publishing interviews with selected translators in the past few months. On 12th May, 2010 – one day before the 1-year anniversary of OTP – TED published an interview with the top Chinese translator Tony Yet, who is also one of the co-founders of TEDtoChina. In this amazing interview, Tony talked about his interest in language, technology and social innovation, his reasons for joining OTP and some of his favorite talks. TEDtoChina also received an honorable mention in this interview.
Alex Counts on Technology, Social Media, and Microfinance in China»Alex Counts, President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, gave an interview to Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) at University of Hong Kong during MaD 2010 conference organized by Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture. He talked about technology, social media, and microfinance in China. TEDtoChina writer Jinxin Ma brings us from Hong Kong her interview with Alex Counts.
[Hong Kong] Karen Jiang on Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues»Playwright and activist Eve Ensler once again speak for girls and women against violence at the TED 2010 annual conference. Her V-Day initiative has funded more than 11,000 community-based anti-violence programs and launched safe houses in the Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. How did Eve influence audiences especially women in China ? Karen Jiang, our writer at Global TEdtoChina group, reports from Hong Kong with her interesting observations.
TEDxGuangzhou Videos Available Now»Videos from TEDxGuangzhou have been made available on Tudou. You can now watch all these amazing talks on the Tudou TEDx channel.
Introduce TEDIndia report team of TEDtoChina»While Tony attended the TEDIndia as Fellow, our TEDIndia report team were working hard writing summaries of sessions and translating bio of speakers of the event. Now let’s meet the four persons of the group. Jun Li, who is our senior coordinator, led the TEDIndia report project. Zachary Zhao, who is in charge of OPT@TEDtoChina program, joined the team with two writers Gloria Wang and Jingjing Wei.
TEDxSYSU successful launch»The initial launch of TEDx SYSU on June 14 has witnessed great success. Huge number of people turned up on the auditorium, excited about this special treat of brain spa brought about by a selection of talented speakers.
translate@thon for TED»Inspired by the translate@thon events in the free software world, I recently came up with the idea of introducing the translate@thon concept into the field of knowledge mining. The idea is, we will invite some people into a room, get them familiar with the idea of TED and the concept of translate@thon, then we will kick off and immerse ourselves in the ecstasy brought about in all these brilliant TEDTalks and possibly have our brain blown away by the talks. But that’s not our goal. Our goal is to put the talks into Chinese and help blow away people’s brain through translating!
TEDx is coming to China»Since TEDtoChina was launched six months ago, many friends asked us a question when TED would come to China. We couldn’t give an answer at the time. Now it is finally happening! The news seems to be getting brighter, lighter.
Added Google Calendar to TEDtoChina.com»Recently I have free time to work on improving TEDtoChina.com’s user interface and adding more features.
Last week, I added Google Calendar to our site.
Last week, I watched an amazing talk on TEDxTaipei website by Ben Tsiang (蔣顯斌). Ben, co-founder of SINA.com, shared his view of empathy at Big Question Conference 2008. He is now running a documentary house called CNEX (short for China Next) with the mission of making 100 documentary films within 10 years about China’s society change.
