The mindset shift needed to tackle big global challenges | Bernhard Kowatsch

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🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:07.2	Global climate change, global hunger.
0:10.2	These problems seem completely overwhelming.
0:13.3	But social entrepreneur Bernard Kovac says, actually simple text solutions can address them
0:18.4	if we think about them differently.
0:19.9	In his 2022 talk from Ted at BCG, Kovac shares how project management, scaling technology
0:26.3	and the blockchain can be used to address urgent global issues.
0:34.0	Support for Ted Talks daily comes from Airbnb.
0:36.9	Okay, every time you stay at an Airbnb, do you ever wonder, could my place at home actually
0:43.0	be an Airbnb, could I rent it out?
0:45.5	And if I could, what would it earn?
0:47.6	I think about this sometimes, myself.
0:50.1	So I was pretty surprised to hear about Lucy and Worcestershire, who realized she could
0:55.1	convert her empty barn space into a one bedroom Airbnb.
0:59.5	How creative, right?
1:00.7	Now her extra income allows her to focus on her family as a new mom.
1:05.0	Find out what your place could be earning at arabianbe.co.uk slash host.
1:12.8	When you think about innovation and technology, you're most likely thinking about the latest
1:17.3	app on your smartphone or maybe you think about rockets going into space.
1:21.5	But what about some of the world's biggest challenges like global hunger or climate change?
1:25.9	They can seem overwhelming or maybe you just think there should be a nonprofit organization
1:31.2	that takes care of that.
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