TEDx: Many voices, one conversation

TEDx is an international community that organizes TED-style events anywhere and everywhere -- celebrating locally-driven ideas and elevating them to a global stage. Watch the talks at tedxtalks.ted.com or find an event in your area at ted.com/tedx.

Video directed by Wondros

In 3 years over 3200 events
in 126 countries and 47 languages

13,000 TEDxTalks
one conversation.

Anwar Dafa-Alla: Typical TEDxsters
are dreaming about big stuff.

How they can do something
bigger than themselves.

And they are dreamers.

Jim Stoltze: And if you find somebody
who shares your dream,

step up to him or her,

and ask, "How can I help?"

"How can I bring your idea further?"

Yahay AlAbdeli: I told him,
"I have a dream."

"I want to bring this experience
to Iraq, to Baghdad."

TEDx is what brought me back
to my home country.

And the reason I waited so many years,

I didn't want to go empty-handed.

I found something that could
make an impact in my country.

And in this case, it was TED.

I started watching videos on TED.com.

I was really inspired,
didn't sleep the whole night.

The next day, OK,
if this thing inspires me,

Then, why not? I'm going to share this
in my community in Ethiopia.

Part of my community in Serbia.

- This is my community.
- My community.

Communities that are tucked away
in villages across the world.

To tell the world that we have
great thinkers and doers.

The sum of the local is the global.

Turn off the TV,
log off from the Internet

and stand up and start doing something!

With rubber bullets, fire bombs,

a wall, a human chain of young Egyptians

decided to hold hands
to protect a museum.

It's an opportunity to contribute
to their communities

and change the world
in their own way.