700 million people still live without electricity. Here’s how to fix that | Jacqueline Novogratz
TED Talks Daily22 Jul 2025

700 million people still live without electricity. Here’s how to fix that | Jacqueline Novogratz

Impact investor and Acumen CEO Jacqueline Novogratz unveils a bold vision to bring off-grid solar electricity to 700 million people still living in darkness, transforming lives while slashing emissions. She asks a thought-provoking question: What if this generation could be remembered for finally bringing electricity — and dignity — to everyone on the planet?

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How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease | Pratik Shah

How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease | Pratik Shah

Today's AI algorithms require tens of thousands of expensive medical images to detect a patient's disease. What if we could drastically reduce the amount of data needed to train an AI, making diagnose...

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Why doctors are offering free tax prep in their waiting rooms | Lucy Marcil

Why doctors are offering free tax prep in their waiting rooms | Lucy Marcil

More than 90 percent of children in the US see a doctor at least once a year, which means countless hours spent in waiting rooms for parents. What if those hours could be used for something productive...

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How to train employees to have difficult conversations | Tamekia MizLadi Smith

How to train employees to have difficult conversations | Tamekia MizLadi Smith

It's time to invest in face-to-face training that empowers employees to have difficult conversations, says Tamekia MizLadi Smith. In a witty, provocative talk, Smith shares a workplace training progra...

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Where are all the aliens? | Stephen Webb

Where are all the aliens? | Stephen Webb

The universe is incredibly old, astoundingly vast and populated by trillions of planets -- so where are all the aliens? Astronomer Stephen Webb has an explanation: we're alone in the universe. In a mi...

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What the Russian Revolution would have looked like on social media | Mikhail Zygar

What the Russian Revolution would have looked like on social media | Mikhail Zygar

History is written by the victors, as the saying goes -- but what would it look like if it was written by everyone? Journalist and TED Fellow Mikhail Zygar is on a mission to show us with Project1917,...

18 Jul 20184min

What your smart devices know (and share) about you | Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu

What your smart devices know (and share) about you | Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu

Once your "smart" appliances can talk to you, who else are they talking to? Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu wanted to find out -- so they outfitted Hill's apartment with 18 different internet-connected d...

18 Jul 20189min

The power of diversity within yourself | Rebeca Hwang

The power of diversity within yourself | Rebeca Hwang

Rebeca Hwang has spent a lifetime juggling identities -- Korean heritage, Argentinian upbringing, education in the United States -- and for a long time she had difficulty finding a place in the world ...

17 Jul 20189min

The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface | Will Marshall

The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface | Will Marshall

What if you could search the surface of the Earth the same way you search the internet? Will Marshall and his team at Planet use the world's largest fleet of satellites to image the entire Earth every...

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