PopTech Audio: PopCasts
Summary: PopTech is an extraordinary three-day summit bringing together 550 visionary thinkers in the sciences, technology, business, design, the arts, education, social development, government, and culture to explore the cutting-edge ideas, emerging technologies and new forces of change that are shaping our collective future. Now you can take the energy and inspiration that is PopTech with you anywhere, with these video and audio podcasts. PopCasts let you join the conversation and engage in the extraordinary work that had its start in Camden , Maine . Are you ready to accept the challenges issued by the thinkers and innovators who move PopTech audiences, year after year?
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After spending years in Africa fighting AIDS, TB and cholera with the W.H.O., Gary Slutkin returned to Chicago and had an epiphany: the violence plaguing his hometown exhibited all the signs of an infectious disease. Learn how he’s applied epidemiological principles to reduce shootings and violent crime in inner-city Chicago neighborhoods by as much as 75% through the CeaseFire approach.
2008 PopTech Fellow Eric Dawson launched Peace First to address sky-rocketing youth homicide rates. Peace First has already reached 40,000 children and families in five states, and is changing school cultures – teaching students the conflict resolution and peacemaking skills critical to create a safe learning environment.
2008 PopTech Fellows Chip Ransler and Manoj Sinha are key principals behind Husk Power Systems (HPS), a for-profit company that’s created a proprietary technology to cost-effectively convert rice husks into electricity. HPS delivers electricity – and dramatically improved lives – to India’s “Rice Belt.”
2008 PopTech Fellow Abby Falik is the founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year (GCY), which aims to institutionalize a global service “gap year” for young Americans between high school and college – fundamentally transforming how they understand and act on their responsibilities as global citizens.
2008 PopTech Fellow Erik Hersman is an innovator and technologist advancing the use of technology as an empowerment tool in the developing world. He is a co-founder of Ushahidi – a free, open source, Web / mobile-based platform capable of crowd-sourcing, sharing and mapping crisis information in near real time.
2008 PopTech Fellow Melanie Edwards launched Mobile Metrix to identify and serve the world’s one billion “invisible” people. Mobile Metrix connects those at the base of the pyramid to critical products and services, and develops, administers and analyzes surveys for partners and local communities.
2008 PopTech Fellow Priti Radhakrishnan is Co-Director of Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK), a team of lawyers and scientists working to strengthen patent systems and encourage innovation in new medicines, while expanding broad access to the best and latest treatments.
2008 PopTech Fellow Tevis Howard founded KOMAZA to help end extreme poverty for rural Kenyan families living in arid landscapes. The organization partners with poor families to plant high-profit commercial tree farms that generate life-changing income and help preserve indigenous biodiversity.
2008 PopTech Fellow Tshewang Dendup of the Bhutan Broadcasting Service is training his compatriots in journalism, filmmaking, business, and other key skills to help them thrive as Bhutan undergoes its historic transition from absolute monarchy to democracy.
2008 PopTech Fellows Taylor Thompson and Nathan Sigworth are co-founders of PharmaSecure, a for-profit startup with a breakthrough solution to the $50+ billion, global pharmaceutical counterfeiting racket – which kills millions each year.
2008 PopTech Fellow Brian McCarthy is Founder and CEO of PFNC, a manufacturer and provider of affordable housing. The company converts surplus U.S. shipping containers into residences for the 1.1 million laborers who work in maquiladoras in Mexico, providing improved safety and sanitation and enabling wealth creation.
Leading neuropsychiatrist Peter Whybrow recently authored “American Mania: When More Is Not Enough,” a neurobiological look at the instinctual and social behaviors that balance a market economy. Pay attention as he explains how America’s reward-driven culture is pushing the physiological limits of our evolutionary inheritance – making us sick in body and mind.
Dr. Parkinson re-imagines the doctor/patient relationship, marrying social networking, IM, video chat, SMS and PayPal with old-fashioned, doctor-in-your-neighborhood, quality care. Pay a virtual visit to his Web 2.0 primary care practice, Hello Health, which offers a new way of keeping people well.
The only author to ever win a Peabody, Polk and Pulitzer, Garrett has a distinct and well-informed perspective on the failings of our global health system. Here she has some critical considerations for increasing the effectiveness of aid to Africa, narrowing the life expectancy gap between the developed and developing worlds, and preventing the spread of pandemics.
Pioneering epidemiologist Dr. Lipkin is developing world-changing methods to rapidly identify and decode mystery pathogens. Listen as he explains how an increased understanding of “zoonotic diseases,” coupled with advancements in diagnostic technology, is helping us to predict and prevent the next SARS or HIV/AIDS.
