by JAK | May 19, 2016 | culture, development, films, music
Sonita the movie is based on the story of Sonita Alizadeh. Sonita moved to Iran as a 10 year old from Afghanistan and started writing songs and wanting to perform as a rap artist. “After her family attempts to sell her into marriage, a young Afghan refugee in...
by JAK | May 16, 2016 | big ideas, culture, TEDx
A few weeks ago Samuel Gibson spoke at TEDxAuckland where he wowed the audience with his personal story of being born “the luckiest boy in the world” despite having osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disorder that makes for brittle bones that fracture...
by JAK | May 11, 2016 | culture, general business
Over at Public Address there is a post called Forgetting what we didn’t know which is about the New Zealand media / government response to the #PanamaPapers. In short various stories and government comments imply that the revelations have amounted to nothing....
by JAK | May 6, 2016 | big ideas, culture, TEDx
Since the first TEDxAuckland events back in 2009 there have been a huge number of speakers (100+) and attendees (7000+) who come along each year to be surprised, challenged, inspired, entertained and informed. In the early days finding speakers was easy because the...
by JAK | May 4, 2016 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
The Democrats in the U.S have a serious problem. Their preferred candidate Hillary Clinton was supposed to have everything stitched up by now. And then Bernie has gone and won Indiana. His 18th win in a race that was supposed to be a slam dunk for Clinton. The Clinton...
