The latest issue of Idealog magazine had this excellent piece by Vincent Heeringa. It’s amazing how wowed we were by the Knowledge Wave conference and how little came of it. My contention is that we didn’t have sufficient integration between business, education, local and central government and business thinkers to get traction. Something that we should, and need to remedy.
Anyone want to help organised a TED_NZ conference?
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How about pitching to host the TED-Global spinoff event down here in 2009?
I’ll help.
Sounds good – flick me an email at benkepes@gmail.com