Below - following a short but intrusive advertisement - is a 15 minute interview by the Economist's Andreas Kluth with Dr Larry Brilliant, who played a leading role in the successful WHO/UN campaign to eliminate smallpox, which killed 0.5b people in the 20th Century. Brilliant was head of Google's philanthropic arm google.org, and is now president of the Skoll Global Threats Fund.
« Encouraging Digital Access to Culture - a March 2010 report by Jonathan Drori | Main | "Data is not the plural of anecdote". Eric Mazur talks about how to improve large group learning. »
Comments
The comments to this entry are closed.
Recent Posts
- A leaving speech
- How algorithms manipulate the market
- Clayton Wright's Educational Technology and Education Conferences, January to June 2016
- Alphabet
- Paul Mason's Postcapitalism - talk and discussion
- FE Area Based Reviews should start by making an assessment of need
- Citizen Maths - powerful ideas in action
- Robotics - someone who ran DARPA's Robotics Challenge looks ahead
- On the long-term future of artificial intelligence
- A ten year old interview
Recent Comments
- David Hughes on A leaving speech
- Liz Perry on A leaving speech
- Khaled on If ever you need a really comprehensive "title" drop-down
- Mark Sosa on If ever you need a really comprehensive "title" drop-down
- Richard Stacy on Video and Online Learning: Critical Reflections and Findings From the Field
- Mike Jones on "The Facebook" Kyle McGrath's August 2005 assessment
- G Kelly on Syria-related readings
- Kris Sittler on Second report from Keith Devlin's and Coursera’s Introduction to Mathematical Thinking MOOC
- Robert McGuire on Second report from Keith Devlin's and Coursera’s Introduction to Mathematical Thinking MOOC
- Keith Devlin on Second report from Keith Devlin's and Coursera’s Introduction to Mathematical Thinking MOOC
Supplementary reading (or alternative for anyone who prefers being able to skim text) from Larry Brilliant on same topic(s) at http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/19/global-threats-5-challenges-for-2010/. (Seb, did I get that from your blog too? apologies if I did; just happened to be reading it this morning) [David, no, not from me. Good to get it. Seb]
Posted by: DJ | 30/04/2010 at 10:16