I love the TED series, it's like an incredible university that's totally open access. It enables interesting, wildly creative people to share their ideas and makes them (the ideas/people) accessible via the internet. Multidisciplinary -- there are great talks on technology, philosophy, art, economics, and science -- and accommodating many visions and viewpoints, TED is an amazing marketplace of ideas.In case you haven't experienced TED yet, go here. There are quite a number of talks on development topics (look under Global Issues). Among the most popular are Hans Rosling's talks (very engaging).
More recently, economist Paul Romer spoke on the idea of charter cities, which is creating a buzz in some development circles. And here's an older talk by Paul Collier on helping the Bottom Billion.
Just poke around -- see what they've got (among other things my GMU colleague Alex Tabbarok on economic crises) -- I'm sure you'll find something of interest.
- Karol
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I would also like to recommend Isabelle Allende's talk as well. I have always loved her writings (one of my favorites is Ciudad de las Bestias) but I never knew what a funny, engaging and passionate speaker she is.
"In her passionate TEDTalk, Allende praises women whose grit and selflessness transform the meaning of modern feminism -- mentioning, in particular, three women of rare courage: Wangari Maathai, Somaly Mam and Rose Mapendo"
http://www.ted.com/talks/isabel_allende_tells_tales_of_passion.html
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