A year has passed since Lehman Brothers crashed, filed for bankruptcy and threw the financial market into massive turmoil. Now that we look back, we may realize that very little progress has been made, very little reforms have been implemented in the international finance per se, but also with regards to other key global issues such as an international agreement on climate change (even though the “Hopenhagen” idea sounds great..I have to say I m now hopeless about what COP15 might result in).
However, don’t we say that “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste”? Haven’t we reached a “turning point”, a key moment in history to innovate and reinvent our model? This is exactly the point made by Geoff Mulgan at TED 2009 in Oxford: why not using stimulus funds to stir social innovation – and thus investing in a better world?
In the pure TED tradition, it is an extremely interesting speech…and hugely motivating! So, yes..we can!
Enjoy! And, if you have few more minutes available, read through the comments below the video on the TED website here, they are definitely worth it.
Source: Initially found on China Crossroads
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