How innovation and technology can fight global hunger | Bernhard Kowatsch

TED Talks Daily

TED

Creativity, Ted Podcast, Ted Talks Daily, Business, Design, Inspiration, Society & Culture, Science, Technology, Education, Tech Demo, Ted Talks, Ted, Entertainment, Tedtalks

4.1 • 11.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Social entrepreneur Bernhard Kowatsch shares real-life examples of how a business approach focused on accelerating tech (like a blockchain-supported way to bring food to refugees or a machine that fortifies flour at small mills in Africa) can help make an impact on big, seemingly intractable problems. "Innovation and technology can create so much good in the world, and together we can solve the world's biggest challenges," he says.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hu. Global climate change, global hunger.
0:09.9	These problems seem completely overwhelming. But social entrepreneur Bernard Kovach says,
0:15.5	actually simple tech solutions can address them if we think about them differently.
0:19.8	In his 2022 talk from TED at BCG, Kovac shares how project management, scaling technology,
0:26.1	and the blockchain can be used to address urgent global issues.
0:33.4	When you think about innovation and technology, you're most likely thinking about the latest app on your smartphone,
0:39.3	or maybe you think about rockets going into space.
0:42.3	But what about some of the world's biggest challenges,
0:44.3	like global hunger or climate change?
0:46.3	They can seem overwhelming.
0:48.3	Or maybe you just think that should be a nonprofit organization that takes care of that.
0:53.3	But why is it that we think so traditionally about some of the world's biggest challenges?
0:58.7	I believe innovation and technology can help tackle some of the world's biggest challenges.
1:04.0	The barrier is our own thinking.
1:06.2	And there's something about this where big global challenges are no different than big global
1:12.7	business challenges.
1:13.9	So let's change that.
1:15.8	Let's talk about one of those topics, global hunger.
1:18.6	Hunger may seem like a remote problem for you, but the effects of it are pretty drastic.
1:23.4	Hunger means you do not have enough calories on a daily base to live a healthy life.
1:28.8	And there is up to 811 million people on the planet who are hungry.
1:33.6	So what can we do about it?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from TED, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of TED and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.