1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:09,801 --> 00:00:15,015 A long time ago, high in the mountains where fast rivers run, 4 00:00:15,849 --> 00:00:19,144 a tree lit the spark of inspiration. 5 00:00:20,437 --> 00:00:24,858 The people of the mountains saw that they could train the tree’s roots 6 00:00:24,941 --> 00:00:26,443 across the water 7 00:00:26,776 --> 00:00:28,945 and forge them into a bridge. 8 00:00:30,447 --> 00:00:33,408 That power to recognize possibilities, 9 00:00:33,783 --> 00:00:35,160 to really see, 10 00:00:35,702 --> 00:00:37,579 lives inside of us. 11 00:00:38,663 --> 00:00:41,541 Like a root bridge, it can connect us 12 00:00:42,375 --> 00:00:43,334 to the world, 13 00:00:44,044 --> 00:00:45,879 to the wisdom of our past, 14 00:00:46,838 --> 00:00:48,882 to those who come after us. 15 00:01:37,555 --> 00:01:41,601 Water is fundamental in agriculture. 16 00:01:41,684 --> 00:01:46,147 Here, every drop of water costs us too much. 17 00:02:00,203 --> 00:02:04,040 Today, unfortunately, we don't have the same amount, 18 00:02:04,124 --> 00:02:07,544 the same volume of water that we had 50 years ago. 19 00:02:18,221 --> 00:02:20,598 The terraces and the platforms, as you can see, 20 00:02:20,682 --> 00:02:22,976 allow us to have an effective... 21 00:02:23,518 --> 00:02:25,770 irrigation system. 22 00:02:25,854 --> 00:02:28,273 And we are able to reduce 23 00:02:28,565 --> 00:02:31,192 the soil erosion that we have on land, 24 00:02:31,860 --> 00:02:35,822 which is already pretty damaged. 25 00:02:44,831 --> 00:02:47,667 We want to make many terraces, like the ones you see here, 26 00:02:47,750 --> 00:02:50,503 so we can face climate change. 27 00:03:06,102 --> 00:03:10,064 Grassroots innovations are built by the people, for the people, 28 00:03:10,148 --> 00:03:13,610 as they build resilience towards the local challenges 29 00:03:13,693 --> 00:03:15,111 they face every day. 30 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,284 It’s really imperialistic to think 31 00:03:21,367 --> 00:03:24,579 that solutions come from the industrial technical world down. 32 00:03:27,624 --> 00:03:30,877 There are probably millions of pieces of knowledge 33 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:35,006 which are incredibly powerful for solving global problems 34 00:03:35,089 --> 00:03:38,051 that we have no idea because we’re not even looking for them. 35 00:03:51,189 --> 00:03:53,483 Right here, those are the little monkey bars. 36 00:03:53,566 --> 00:03:57,695 These are the little things to go up with 37 00:03:58,238 --> 00:04:01,950 and I’m kind of tall for it but usually we’re on top of this. 38 00:04:04,327 --> 00:04:05,912 I’m going to break the house. 39 00:04:05,995 --> 00:04:09,415 So, my name is Gitanjali Rao, I’m 15 years old 40 00:04:09,499 --> 00:04:11,042 and I'm an innovator, author 41 00:04:11,125 --> 00:04:14,087 and promoter of science, technology, engineering and math, 42 00:04:14,170 --> 00:04:15,672 especially for students and youth. 43 00:04:16,881 --> 00:04:18,383 This is my science kit. 44 00:04:19,259 --> 00:04:21,928 This is something my uncle gave me when I was four years old. 45 00:04:22,470 --> 00:04:23,513 And it's very… 46 00:04:24,722 --> 00:04:25,765 busted, 47 00:04:26,641 --> 00:04:27,976 to say the least. 48 00:04:29,018 --> 00:04:33,439 I was inspired by the water crisis in Flint, Michigan about three years ago. 49 00:04:33,773 --> 00:04:35,483 And it was absolutely appalling to see 50 00:04:35,566 --> 00:04:40,154 how many kids my age were basically drinking a poison every single day. 51 00:04:40,238 --> 00:04:41,990 So, I created something like Tethys 52 00:04:42,073 --> 00:04:45,326 which is an easy-to-use, at-home tool for lead in drinking water. 53 00:04:50,957 --> 00:04:53,543 This is a breadboard that everything gets hooked up into 54 00:04:53,626 --> 00:04:55,670 and this is a lithium-ion battery. 55 00:04:55,753 --> 00:04:58,464 And it comes with this cartridge that gets dipped into the water 56 00:04:58,548 --> 00:05:00,383 and then tests if you have clean drinking water. 57 00:05:02,593 --> 00:05:04,554 We’ve created a stereotype 58 00:05:04,637 --> 00:05:08,224 of what innovation is across the past 50 years. 59 00:05:08,308 --> 00:05:10,268 You look for a particular person, right? 60 00:05:10,351 --> 00:05:13,104 A mad scientist, who's typically white, who's typically old, 61 00:05:13,187 --> 00:05:14,480 and who’s typically a male. 62 00:05:15,315 --> 00:05:19,777 I'm not that! I'm not at all what you see on the media. 63 00:05:22,363 --> 00:05:25,783 Innovation, to me, is the process of thinking differently 64 00:05:25,867 --> 00:05:28,119 to solve a problem in the world around you. 65 00:05:28,828 --> 00:05:30,621 Our generation is growing up in a place 66 00:05:30,705 --> 00:05:33,249 where we’re seeing problems that have never existed before. 67 00:05:33,958 --> 00:05:38,296 And right now innovation needs all of us, no matter our age, gender or race. 68 00:05:38,338 --> 00:05:41,632 We have to maximize innovation and creativity together. 69 00:05:48,806 --> 00:05:52,685 The seed of potential lives within each of us. 70 00:05:54,145 --> 00:05:59,525 Every day, people face challenges with ingenuity and vision. 71 00:06:01,027 --> 00:06:04,822 How they work, where they find inspiration, 72 00:06:05,490 --> 00:06:09,827 can help us all find new ways to build a better tomorrow. 73 00:06:41,192 --> 00:06:46,447 I researched this project for a long time. 74 00:06:46,531 --> 00:06:48,699 From 2012 to 2017. 75 00:06:48,825 --> 00:06:52,495 I saved these samples from 2017, 76 00:06:52,578 --> 00:06:55,456 2019 and 2018. 77 00:07:06,384 --> 00:07:11,264 When I moved here to work, the garbage truck had broken down. 78 00:07:11,347 --> 00:07:13,850 Wow, why does trash smell so bad? 79 00:07:13,933 --> 00:07:19,439 Trucks breaking down is inevitable. It will happen sooner or later. 80 00:07:19,522 --> 00:07:21,107 At the time, I thought, 81 00:07:21,190 --> 00:07:24,110 “If only there were a way to turn trash into money. 82 00:07:24,193 --> 00:07:26,112 The environment would be much cleaner.” 83 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:30,700 I am not an expert in biology 84 00:07:32,368 --> 00:07:35,746 I mean, I wasn’t trained in it. 85 00:07:35,830 --> 00:07:37,165 It’s not my expertise. 86 00:07:38,666 --> 00:07:40,126 My name is Trinh Thi Hong. 87 00:07:40,585 --> 00:07:43,087 I’m the director of a company 88 00:07:43,171 --> 00:07:46,841 that recycles organic waste into cleaning products. 89 00:07:59,061 --> 00:08:03,524 This is the Imagination Book. This is where all ideas are born. 90 00:08:03,566 --> 00:08:05,485 This is where all ideas are nurtured. 91 00:08:06,277 --> 00:08:09,780 And this is where I write whatever thing I think or imagine. 92 00:08:13,993 --> 00:08:16,078 This is actually the Galileo Generator. 93 00:08:16,996 --> 00:08:19,957 And then you can see this is a different model. 94 00:08:20,875 --> 00:08:22,752 And these are the materials: 95 00:08:22,835 --> 00:08:25,963 a solar switch, transformer, battery… 96 00:08:38,643 --> 00:08:41,562 I have so much concern about the environment. 97 00:08:41,646 --> 00:08:44,899 I want to see how best I will minimize air pollution. 98 00:08:48,694 --> 00:08:50,655 My dad is a welder. 99 00:08:50,738 --> 00:08:52,156 He’s so talented. 100 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:53,908 I would help him do a lot of things. 101 00:08:56,536 --> 00:08:59,747 I also learned how to do these things. I do it for myself. 102 00:09:04,168 --> 00:09:08,297 I call this Imagination Light because it’s everything that I imagined. 103 00:09:08,839 --> 00:09:10,925 I decided to create this light to help people 104 00:09:11,008 --> 00:09:13,177 that do not have access to electricity. 105 00:09:17,473 --> 00:09:20,309 This is a sketch of the car I want to build. 106 00:09:21,769 --> 00:09:24,689 It has a solar panel that acts as a source of energy. 107 00:09:26,232 --> 00:09:29,402 After I’ve created a first prototype, then I want to expand. 108 00:09:39,495 --> 00:09:42,039 As a youth, I have to play a major role. 109 00:09:42,582 --> 00:09:45,293 I have to help people, I have to help society, 110 00:09:45,376 --> 00:09:47,086 I have to help my country. 111 00:10:06,606 --> 00:10:11,235 I’m Jamila Mammadli, it’s Jamila Mammadli in my own language. 112 00:10:11,319 --> 00:10:13,279 I currently live in Baku. 113 00:10:13,362 --> 00:10:15,948 I'm 27 years old for now. 114 00:10:17,700 --> 00:10:22,288 I’m currently working as a copywriter at my company, it’s a television company. 115 00:10:29,253 --> 00:10:31,547 Baku is something new and something old. 116 00:10:32,298 --> 00:10:35,968 Many people can enjoy it here if you're a tourist. 117 00:10:36,636 --> 00:10:39,639 But for me, it’s kind of a challenging place to be. 118 00:10:57,657 --> 00:10:59,450 I moved here three years ago. 119 00:10:59,533 --> 00:11:04,330 I lived in some really small village, a really green place to be, 120 00:11:04,413 --> 00:11:05,456 it was really nice… 121 00:11:05,956 --> 00:11:10,336 But there weren’t many opportunities for me so I had to move to Baku. 122 00:11:15,383 --> 00:11:19,553 I just came to the big city and I thought, “It should be so much easier!” 123 00:11:21,347 --> 00:11:23,766 It wasn’t… to my surprise. 124 00:11:33,567 --> 00:11:35,736 I enjoy discovering new places. 125 00:11:35,820 --> 00:11:38,614 Okay, maybe not all the places are accessible for me. 126 00:11:39,782 --> 00:11:43,703 Of course, I’m a wheelchair user so I can’t move around freely, 127 00:11:43,786 --> 00:11:46,414 I can’t enjoy myself without thinking, 128 00:11:46,497 --> 00:11:51,252 “Can I go there without any help or maybe obstacles?” 129 00:11:52,378 --> 00:11:55,923 But I know that it’s like that for most of the world. 130 00:11:58,634 --> 00:12:00,928 We're not an accessible world, unfortunately. 131 00:12:07,476 --> 00:12:09,770 When I first got to use the metro, 132 00:12:09,854 --> 00:12:13,357 I was new in the city and was really scared. 133 00:12:14,316 --> 00:12:18,946 Before me, it was illegal to use the metro with wheelchairs. 134 00:12:20,072 --> 00:12:23,951 Yeah! It was a real thing, so it was really challenging for me, 135 00:12:24,034 --> 00:12:26,328 not only physically but even mentally. 136 00:12:26,996 --> 00:12:28,372 I had to fight. 137 00:12:43,387 --> 00:12:46,223 Many times, the people who are economically poor… 138 00:12:47,516 --> 00:12:49,185 are not intellectually poor. 139 00:12:52,188 --> 00:12:54,315 Wealth has no relationship with wisdom. 140 00:12:55,316 --> 00:12:57,026 You can have a lot of wealth and you may be foolish, 141 00:12:58,235 --> 00:13:00,905 and a person who is economically very poor may be very wise. 142 00:13:01,822 --> 00:13:04,658 I’m Anil Gupta, professor, 143 00:13:04,742 --> 00:13:08,412 taught at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad for about 40 years, 144 00:13:08,496 --> 00:13:12,875 and I also founded Honey Bee Network 145 00:13:13,459 --> 00:13:15,127 around 34 years ago. 146 00:13:16,504 --> 00:13:20,341 It’s a database for democratizing the grassroots innovations, 147 00:13:20,424 --> 00:13:24,804 innovations from and innovations for grassroots. 148 00:13:27,181 --> 00:13:31,435 So it’s a voluntary effort, we have been doing this walk for decades, 149 00:13:31,519 --> 00:13:36,941 adding wings to the imagination by not just looking at what people lack, 150 00:13:37,316 --> 00:13:39,026 but what people are good at. 151 00:13:42,655 --> 00:13:48,452 We try to learn from four teachers in every learning walk: a teacher within, 152 00:13:49,537 --> 00:13:50,746 a teacher around us, 153 00:13:51,288 --> 00:13:53,749 a teacher in nature, 154 00:13:54,917 --> 00:13:57,294 and a teacher among common people. 155 00:13:57,545 --> 00:13:59,255 You take good care of the animals, don't you? 156 00:13:59,338 --> 00:14:01,423 What do you feed them to yield better quality milk? 157 00:14:01,715 --> 00:14:05,427 We feed them jaggery and groundnut shells 158 00:14:05,553 --> 00:14:07,221 which contain various nutrients and vitamins 159 00:14:07,304 --> 00:14:09,390 that are good for the animals. 160 00:14:10,015 --> 00:14:11,892 To help cure their colds, 161 00:14:11,976 --> 00:14:16,689 I smoke eucalyptus leaves for them to inhale. 162 00:14:23,487 --> 00:14:27,366 Honoring creative people at their doorstep makes a big difference! 163 00:14:27,741 --> 00:14:29,535 There were occasions when people in the village 164 00:14:29,618 --> 00:14:31,996 didn’t know about that… enough. 165 00:14:32,079 --> 00:14:33,664 Sometimes they didn’t know at all! 166 00:14:33,747 --> 00:14:35,749 We never knew that he was doing this experiment. 167 00:14:36,625 --> 00:14:42,631 And, of course, this process of visibility gives currency to these creative ideas, 168 00:14:42,715 --> 00:14:44,133 otherwise they get lost. 169 00:14:46,635 --> 00:14:51,640 We often have a challenge as to how can formal systems, 170 00:14:51,724 --> 00:14:54,018 policymakers, financial systems, 171 00:14:54,101 --> 00:14:56,228 how can they take note? 172 00:14:56,312 --> 00:14:58,314 How can they hear them? 173 00:14:58,397 --> 00:15:01,817 So I’m convinced that if we want inclusive development, 174 00:15:01,901 --> 00:15:03,444 we should encourage diversity. 175 00:15:03,527 --> 00:15:05,946 And we should also encourage differences of opinions, 176 00:15:06,030 --> 00:15:09,199 differences of views, differences in the ways we solve problems. 177 00:15:12,870 --> 00:15:18,000 Minds on the margin… are not marginal minds. 178 00:15:25,132 --> 00:15:30,137 People have always been dreaming up ways to make life better for those around them. 179 00:15:30,679 --> 00:15:34,975 But too often, their work gets lost in a noisy world. 180 00:15:36,143 --> 00:15:39,563 Now, however, others are starting to listen. 181 00:15:49,490 --> 00:15:52,576 I’ve always believed in the mission of the United Nations. 182 00:15:52,660 --> 00:15:55,621 You know, those first three words, “We the people”, 183 00:15:55,788 --> 00:15:59,291 really mean something when you look at the state of the world 184 00:15:59,375 --> 00:16:00,793 as it is right now. 185 00:16:02,711 --> 00:16:06,507 So, the United Nations Development Programme was set up in 1965. 186 00:16:06,590 --> 00:16:10,594 It’s a $5 billion a year organization 187 00:16:11,095 --> 00:16:15,557 with 17,000 people working on it, spanning across 170 countries. 188 00:16:26,276 --> 00:16:31,448 What we saw happening was that the pace of change was accelerating. 189 00:16:33,033 --> 00:16:38,664 In climate problems, in poverty issues, even in technological developments, 190 00:16:38,747 --> 00:16:42,001 the pace of change on the outside world was actually faster 191 00:16:42,084 --> 00:16:45,838 than what we were able to keep up with on the inside of our own organization. 192 00:16:47,506 --> 00:16:50,676 So, the kind of traditional approach to development, 193 00:16:50,759 --> 00:16:57,182 basically, is with a perspective that you need economists to look at data, 194 00:16:57,266 --> 00:17:01,186 to understand the problem, to analyze the problem, to make a plan, 195 00:17:01,270 --> 00:17:03,230 and then have the plan delivered 196 00:17:03,313 --> 00:17:07,568 and then people are better off and the world is a safer and better place. 197 00:17:07,651 --> 00:17:10,279 They’re saying, “This is what we’re here to do for you.” 198 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:14,825 But the kinds of problems that you have in the world today: 199 00:17:14,908 --> 00:17:18,328 You’ve got increasing droughts, increasing flooding, 200 00:17:18,412 --> 00:17:19,997 loss of crop yields, 201 00:17:20,539 --> 00:17:22,708 the growth of violent extremism. 202 00:17:22,791 --> 00:17:26,420 These are the kinds of problems that change by the minute, 203 00:17:26,503 --> 00:17:30,299 and they depend on the actions of eight billion people around the world. 204 00:17:30,382 --> 00:17:31,884 They’re not the kind of problems 205 00:17:31,967 --> 00:17:35,804 that you can sit behind a desk, in an office like this one 206 00:17:35,888 --> 00:17:37,931 and design a plan to solve. 207 00:17:38,098 --> 00:17:40,517 We started looking at various research, 208 00:17:40,601 --> 00:17:43,395 and one of the things we looked at was a piece of research 209 00:17:43,479 --> 00:17:47,191 where they were looking at the problem of recurrent flooding in Indonesia. 210 00:17:47,483 --> 00:17:50,235 They found a fellow named Made Kusama 211 00:17:50,319 --> 00:17:55,616 who was almost obsessively taking care of black soldier flies. 212 00:17:55,699 --> 00:18:00,329 As it turns out, they eat the waste that occurs in irrigation canals, 213 00:18:00,412 --> 00:18:03,707 and where the black soldier flies were protected, 214 00:18:03,791 --> 00:18:05,584 the farms were safer from floods. 215 00:18:08,170 --> 00:18:10,589 You could put agricultural experts, 216 00:18:10,672 --> 00:18:14,843 you could put equity experts of all kinds in a room, 217 00:18:14,927 --> 00:18:18,764 give them coffee for three days and they would never come out with: 218 00:18:19,264 --> 00:18:21,767 “Protect and love the black soldier flies.” 219 00:18:23,143 --> 00:18:27,481 We were inspired by the idea that that kind of a solution was so different 220 00:18:27,564 --> 00:18:31,276 and so off our radar that we must be missing something. 221 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:34,238 It’s the people closest to the problem 222 00:18:34,321 --> 00:18:37,032 who have the most knowledge about that problem. 223 00:18:51,004 --> 00:18:53,132 At first, I had to ask people for trash. 224 00:18:53,382 --> 00:18:55,926 My house was full of it. 225 00:18:56,301 --> 00:18:57,970 I made a batch every 2-3 days. 226 00:18:58,095 --> 00:18:59,888 When it started to smell, I threw it out. 227 00:18:59,972 --> 00:19:01,431 It was an endless cycle. 228 00:19:01,515 --> 00:19:04,393 Three parts sugar, three parts waste and 10 parts water. 229 00:19:05,227 --> 00:19:08,188 Little by little, from small bottles to big bottles. 230 00:19:08,981 --> 00:19:12,276 Now we have three cleaning products. 231 00:19:15,195 --> 00:19:19,324 I wanted three things. First, for our environment to be cleaner. 232 00:19:20,284 --> 00:19:24,121 Second, to help disadvantaged people have a more stable life. 233 00:19:24,204 --> 00:19:27,958 They might not be rich, but at least they’re not hungry anymore. 234 00:19:39,887 --> 00:19:40,804 Hi Trang, 235 00:19:42,598 --> 00:19:46,894 Wow, it must be a year since my last visit. 236 00:19:47,227 --> 00:19:49,313 At first, she taught me how to make it 237 00:19:49,396 --> 00:19:51,523 in a paint bucket, a small one. 238 00:19:51,607 --> 00:19:54,109 I was very scared back then because it really stank. 239 00:19:55,235 --> 00:19:58,488 After three months I mastered it and started making it on my own. 240 00:20:00,490 --> 00:20:03,202 When are you going to deliver this month? 241 00:20:03,327 --> 00:20:04,953 Either on the 31st or 1st. 242 00:20:05,704 --> 00:20:09,416 When Lieu is back from her dialysis, 243 00:20:09,750 --> 00:20:12,044 I’ll bring her here, okay? 244 00:20:12,669 --> 00:20:14,421 Can you show her how to make it? 245 00:20:22,888 --> 00:20:28,310 About 50% of the company’s workforce 246 00:20:28,310 --> 00:20:30,562 are disadvantaged people 247 00:20:30,646 --> 00:20:37,527 who work with me to build the production system within the community. 248 00:20:39,613 --> 00:20:44,326 When they have a more stable life, we will have a better life too. 249 00:21:03,428 --> 00:21:08,392 I prefer working during the night because it’s a quiet time 250 00:21:09,226 --> 00:21:12,145 and there are less distractions compared to the day. 251 00:21:12,229 --> 00:21:14,648 So during the night is the best time for me 252 00:21:14,731 --> 00:21:17,651 to do all my research and imagine. 253 00:21:18,318 --> 00:21:19,361 Yeah. 254 00:21:25,325 --> 00:21:29,746 Anytime I think of this story, I feel so heartbreaking of what happened. 255 00:21:29,871 --> 00:21:32,165 Just imagine losing an entire family. 256 00:21:34,543 --> 00:21:38,213 One of my close neighbors, they were using a fossil fuel generator 257 00:21:38,297 --> 00:21:40,841 during the night for their children to study. 258 00:21:40,924 --> 00:21:44,970 They placed the generator very close to the window of the living room. 259 00:21:45,679 --> 00:21:47,264 And then what happened, 260 00:21:47,347 --> 00:21:50,767 the poisonous fume from this generator was entering the living room, 261 00:21:51,268 --> 00:21:52,519 unknown to them. 262 00:21:53,645 --> 00:21:57,482 So they fell asleep and I and my dad went there. 263 00:21:57,566 --> 00:22:01,778 And we tried to wake them up, but no one responded. 264 00:22:01,862 --> 00:22:03,822 I was like, "Dad, what happened?" 265 00:22:03,905 --> 00:22:06,074 No one was alive, so all of them were dead. 266 00:22:19,713 --> 00:22:22,549 So now, I went back and started doing some research 267 00:22:22,632 --> 00:22:26,762 to see how best I could come up with something to stop this problem. 268 00:22:41,276 --> 00:22:42,778 This is my favorite toy, 269 00:22:43,403 --> 00:22:45,572 and it reminds me of my childhood. 270 00:22:45,655 --> 00:22:47,074 It calms me down. 271 00:22:47,949 --> 00:22:51,203 I love to use it when I work on something. 272 00:22:53,038 --> 00:22:54,331 It gives me inspiration. 273 00:22:57,709 --> 00:22:59,002 My innovation, 274 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,214 if I have to call myself an innovator, 275 00:23:02,297 --> 00:23:06,218 starts from trying to do something more accessible for all people. 276 00:23:08,428 --> 00:23:11,973 I want to show the world that I can live my life 277 00:23:12,057 --> 00:23:15,936 if you give me some options to live my life more smoothly. 278 00:23:21,191 --> 00:23:23,652 Yes, I’m working currently. I have some income. 279 00:23:23,735 --> 00:23:26,530 I can use the taxi all the time, whenever I want. 280 00:23:26,613 --> 00:23:29,908 But I choose to use the metro. I choose to use the bus. 281 00:23:34,955 --> 00:23:39,251 I know it might lead to a brighter future for wheelchair users. 282 00:23:45,048 --> 00:23:49,928 So, I just wrote a letter to our metro about how I want to use the metro, 283 00:23:50,011 --> 00:23:51,096 and they just answered me, 284 00:23:51,179 --> 00:23:55,267 “It's inaccessible because escalators are really dangerous for wheelchairs, 285 00:23:55,350 --> 00:23:56,643 so they can’t.” 286 00:24:04,776 --> 00:24:07,362 When all the people around you think you're limited… 287 00:24:09,531 --> 00:24:11,032 you tend to believe it too. 288 00:24:28,592 --> 00:24:30,218 Faith makes us resilient. 289 00:24:31,052 --> 00:24:36,057 If we really believe in our ideas, no boundaries can contain us. 290 00:24:37,225 --> 00:24:39,478 The Khasi tribe saw the potential 291 00:24:39,561 --> 00:24:42,814 in a simple tree’s roots breaking through rock 292 00:24:42,856 --> 00:24:44,649 and reaching out over water. 293 00:24:46,151 --> 00:24:47,819 They nurtured these dreams, 294 00:24:48,278 --> 00:24:51,490 knowing they might take decades to bear fruit. 295 00:24:52,532 --> 00:24:56,077 Strength of vision like this drives us on. 296 00:25:06,796 --> 00:25:08,590 You know, as a world, we're growing, 297 00:25:09,216 --> 00:25:11,968 but we have to make sure that nobody’s left behind. 298 00:25:13,094 --> 00:25:15,597 Everybody’s equal and they should move together. 299 00:25:42,374 --> 00:25:44,167 I think the first story, almost, 300 00:25:44,251 --> 00:25:47,212 when we have kind of designed the whole bag, 301 00:25:47,295 --> 00:25:49,631 and we have incorporated the light in it, 302 00:25:49,714 --> 00:25:51,758 which we have made it hands-free 303 00:25:51,841 --> 00:25:55,679 so that the kids don’t have to worry about charging it all the time. 304 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,611 I give them a small idea booklet, mechanical tools, 305 00:26:11,695 --> 00:26:15,240 so some kits we have designed and some kits we got from certain people. 306 00:26:16,199 --> 00:26:19,244 This generation is totally dependent on innovation. 307 00:26:20,495 --> 00:26:23,123 My whole motto is to really motivate them 308 00:26:23,582 --> 00:26:25,959 and tell them that if any problem comes, 309 00:26:26,042 --> 00:26:28,670 you have to find solutions within your surroundings. 310 00:26:31,715 --> 00:26:33,800 What is 'jugaad'? (frugal innovation) 311 00:26:34,593 --> 00:26:39,598 You need to think of frugal innovations to solve problems around you. 312 00:26:39,931 --> 00:26:41,600 Needs at home, 313 00:26:41,683 --> 00:26:44,853 your siblings or teachers at school may need something. 314 00:26:45,895 --> 00:26:50,525 If it rains heavily and there's a flood, how do we move from one place to another? 315 00:26:51,651 --> 00:26:54,571 I feel like they have a lot of interesting ideas. 316 00:26:55,363 --> 00:26:56,698 They impact me a lot. 317 00:26:57,490 --> 00:26:59,451 Because sometimes my brain is biased. 318 00:27:00,076 --> 00:27:02,245 I see a particular thing in a certain way. 319 00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:03,663 But they were like, 320 00:27:03,747 --> 00:27:06,875 "This can also happen in another manner." I was like, "Yeah, you're right!" 321 00:27:07,083 --> 00:27:08,918 We'll use the table to make a raft 322 00:27:09,085 --> 00:27:16,426 and we'll use the legs of the table as paddles and row ourselves out. 323 00:27:16,509 --> 00:27:17,761 Who's sitting on the raft? 324 00:27:17,802 --> 00:27:19,971 -Ma'am, that's me. -It's you? Okay, very nice. 325 00:27:27,937 --> 00:27:31,816 Being marginalized is a very difficult situation. 326 00:27:32,567 --> 00:27:34,694 You don’t know where your life is going. 327 00:27:34,778 --> 00:27:37,614 You see on the television, you see on the Internet 328 00:27:38,406 --> 00:27:40,533 so many people are succeeding, 329 00:27:41,201 --> 00:27:44,245 and you don’t know the way, how to reach there. 330 00:27:50,001 --> 00:27:53,254 We have to be responsible as we're training new generations. 331 00:27:54,089 --> 00:27:57,967 We have to reach to each and every corner of the mountains and rivers. 332 00:27:58,051 --> 00:28:01,429 Even if they're living in the remotest area, you can do it. 333 00:28:02,806 --> 00:28:04,182 Simply, you can do it. 334 00:28:17,904 --> 00:28:21,199 For me, I’m living in a part of the world where it’s very challenging, 335 00:28:21,282 --> 00:28:25,412 and sometimes, for me to have access to the Internet is quite difficult 336 00:28:25,495 --> 00:28:29,916 because we have issues, we have a big problem with electricity. 337 00:28:39,801 --> 00:28:43,930 Based on what I saw and the incident that happened to my close neighbor, 338 00:28:44,055 --> 00:28:46,558 it inspired me to come up with a possible solution 339 00:28:46,641 --> 00:28:49,477 to do something that would be environmentally friendly. 340 00:28:51,980 --> 00:28:54,607 So a solar car to help people in society, 341 00:28:55,567 --> 00:28:57,610 I think that we could impact their life. 342 00:29:04,868 --> 00:29:06,953 I find myself in some part of Africa 343 00:29:08,121 --> 00:29:12,876 and it’s very difficult for us to get raw material. 344 00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:17,964 Especially when you want to do some projects 345 00:29:18,047 --> 00:29:20,425 and the required material is not out there. 346 00:29:21,259 --> 00:29:25,180 So the only place where we can get the required material 347 00:29:25,263 --> 00:29:26,598 is called the trash yard. 348 00:29:30,852 --> 00:29:34,522 You know, I have this dream, I have this passion to help Sierra Leone. 349 00:29:36,524 --> 00:29:38,234 We have people that have talent. 350 00:29:38,234 --> 00:29:40,361 We have people that are capable of doing good things in society, 351 00:29:40,445 --> 00:29:42,197 but they don’t have the opportunity. 352 00:30:07,430 --> 00:30:08,807 It was hard work. 353 00:30:08,890 --> 00:30:14,854 If I hadn’t put my heart and soul into it, 354 00:30:14,938 --> 00:30:16,731 I don’t think I could have done it. 355 00:30:20,276 --> 00:30:22,654 I tried everything, but I wasn’t successful. 356 00:30:26,324 --> 00:30:28,618 It was my passion and my dream. 357 00:30:30,912 --> 00:30:37,794 It’s actually really difficult to come up with a recipe or an idea. 358 00:30:38,419 --> 00:30:42,924 No one believed me. My neighbor said I was insane. 359 00:30:44,676 --> 00:30:48,096 That my ideas were illusions and couldn’t be done. 360 00:30:51,391 --> 00:30:55,103 Even my husband thought I was crazy. 361 00:31:11,661 --> 00:31:13,997 I really enjoy acting, of course I do. 362 00:31:15,248 --> 00:31:16,499 I’m used to attention. 363 00:31:16,583 --> 00:31:18,334 People look at me all the time, 364 00:31:18,418 --> 00:31:22,630 who stare at me for a long long long time, a really long time. 365 00:31:22,714 --> 00:31:24,924 So it wasn’t scary for me, I have to admit. 366 00:31:28,511 --> 00:31:30,597 Yes, my life is normal for me, 367 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,391 but it’s abnormal for many people. 368 00:31:37,812 --> 00:31:41,941 If you don’t see around it, you don’t normalize it. 369 00:31:42,483 --> 00:31:45,069 Like, wheelchair users can use the metro. 370 00:31:45,612 --> 00:31:47,780 So my friend came to me and said, 371 00:31:47,864 --> 00:31:50,617 “You should use it and make it common sense.” 372 00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:53,453 And then it just came to me, "Why not film it?" 373 00:31:53,453 --> 00:31:57,040 I came here from Hezi Aslanov stop. I won't say I came here by myself, 374 00:31:57,165 --> 00:32:00,084 because I came here with my friend, with the help of others. 375 00:32:00,460 --> 00:32:02,712 But I was able to get on the subway. It's possible. 376 00:32:02,837 --> 00:32:04,213 You can do it too. 377 00:32:10,678 --> 00:32:13,765 When I grew up, I didn’t have any representation 378 00:32:13,848 --> 00:32:16,184 and I didn’t know how to do, what to do… 379 00:32:17,310 --> 00:32:19,520 I just had to get it for myself. 380 00:32:20,063 --> 00:32:21,814 It was a really blank space for me. 381 00:32:24,817 --> 00:32:28,363 And when I think that there are young, disabled children 382 00:32:28,446 --> 00:32:30,615 who don’t know what to do with their life, 383 00:32:31,407 --> 00:32:32,533 I really feel sad. 384 00:32:34,035 --> 00:32:36,371 It’s the only time when I feel sad, I guess. 385 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,755 So, as a person who did all these things by herself, 386 00:32:46,422 --> 00:32:47,966 why should people listen to me? 387 00:32:48,591 --> 00:32:52,387 Because when I talk about something, I talk with experience. 388 00:33:21,791 --> 00:33:25,878 There are solutions out there that farmers are doing, 389 00:33:25,962 --> 00:33:28,506 that street vendors are working on. 390 00:33:28,589 --> 00:33:31,843 We need to look at those solutions 391 00:33:31,926 --> 00:33:35,555 to be willing to learn from everyone and anyone. 392 00:33:40,893 --> 00:33:45,398 The economic model we have is driven by depletion of natural resources, 393 00:33:45,481 --> 00:33:48,151 it’s also creating massive inequalities. 394 00:33:48,693 --> 00:33:50,820 We're getting to the point where people don't want to listen. 395 00:33:50,903 --> 00:33:53,364 Because they feel the pressure so much on themselves, 396 00:33:53,448 --> 00:33:56,909 and it’s so much easier to listen to a narrative 397 00:33:56,993 --> 00:34:00,038 that is divisive rather than unifying. 398 00:34:01,414 --> 00:34:04,250 I believe the world needs a United Nations. 399 00:34:04,667 --> 00:34:06,961 But a lot about the United Nations needs to open up, 400 00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:09,088 it needs to modernize, it needs to learn. 401 00:34:09,172 --> 00:34:11,382 And so much of this is about that. 402 00:34:13,051 --> 00:34:16,429 We started this Accelerator Lab Network in 2019. 403 00:34:16,763 --> 00:34:21,267 We try and tap into the distributed knowledge and perception 404 00:34:21,350 --> 00:34:24,020 and practices of women and men 405 00:34:24,103 --> 00:34:26,355 who are facing the effects of climate change, 406 00:34:26,439 --> 00:34:29,776 who are living in poverty and who have a lot to contribute 407 00:34:29,859 --> 00:34:32,528 to putting the planet on a more sustainable path. 408 00:34:34,322 --> 00:34:36,282 We're shifting the paradigm here. 409 00:34:36,365 --> 00:34:39,535 The United Nations Development Programme is saying to the world, 410 00:34:39,619 --> 00:34:41,329 "We don't know everything, 411 00:34:41,412 --> 00:34:45,833 and we need this heavy doubling down on local knowledge." 412 00:34:46,626 --> 00:34:50,838 So in each of our Accelerator Labs, we have a Head of Solutions Mapping. 413 00:34:50,922 --> 00:34:54,425 Their job is to connect us more to the people 414 00:34:54,509 --> 00:34:58,304 that we serve, their inventions, their ingenuity, their entrepreneurship. 415 00:34:59,138 --> 00:35:03,267 Now, we've got a network of these 91 labs around the world 416 00:35:03,351 --> 00:35:05,895 who are able to learn from each other. 417 00:35:07,355 --> 00:35:12,110 We work alongside government partners and university partners and others. 418 00:35:12,735 --> 00:35:16,781 And then we invite them to come with us on this journey 419 00:35:16,864 --> 00:35:19,534 so that they're co-designing with us. 420 00:35:19,617 --> 00:35:22,453 That's really where you start to make transformation. 421 00:35:24,664 --> 00:35:26,582 I’m based in Ghana, 422 00:35:26,666 --> 00:35:32,255 and my job is just mapping grassroots solutions 423 00:35:32,338 --> 00:35:34,006 to development challenges. 424 00:35:34,966 --> 00:35:37,802 Seventy percent of the country’s economy is informal. 425 00:35:38,803 --> 00:35:41,347 So if you’re ignoring 70%, 426 00:35:41,806 --> 00:35:44,433 I’m not saying there's something wrong with the model, 427 00:35:44,517 --> 00:35:48,312 I’m saying we should also speak to the informal sector. 428 00:35:54,318 --> 00:36:00,074 Imagine, within an organization that’s carried on for 60-plus years. 429 00:36:00,575 --> 00:36:03,661 And they’re talking big macroeconomic ideas, 430 00:36:03,744 --> 00:36:07,123 and they have the big budgets to do these huge projects, 431 00:36:07,206 --> 00:36:10,960 and then the Administrator creates a unit. 432 00:36:12,461 --> 00:36:14,297 There are colleagues who are willing 433 00:36:14,380 --> 00:36:17,633 and open to learning from us and sharing with us. 434 00:36:18,885 --> 00:36:20,428 So it's an ongoing process. 435 00:36:22,013 --> 00:36:28,144 A system is designed to produce exactly the results that it’s producing. 436 00:36:32,899 --> 00:36:35,735 I got into the World Bank at 25 years old 437 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,615 and eventually became the Vice President for South Asia. 438 00:36:40,698 --> 00:36:44,952 We managed a portfolio of $36 billion, 439 00:36:45,453 --> 00:36:51,292 had thousands of staff and had a very large budget, $100 million. 440 00:36:54,253 --> 00:36:59,091 There were a lot of problems that we were trying to fix. 441 00:36:59,175 --> 00:37:02,303 We called them, "The Wicked Development Problems" 442 00:37:02,386 --> 00:37:04,805 that could not be solved from the top down. 443 00:37:05,473 --> 00:37:09,936 I could see these amazing organizations that were actually solving that problem, 444 00:37:10,937 --> 00:37:12,730 but we could not connect them 445 00:37:12,813 --> 00:37:15,191 because of the business model of the World Bank. 446 00:37:16,234 --> 00:37:21,447 And so, it was very frustrating not to be able, with all those resources, 447 00:37:21,530 --> 00:37:25,326 not to be able to actually help those organizations, 448 00:37:25,409 --> 00:37:29,413 grassroots, social entrepreneurs who had the solution 449 00:37:29,497 --> 00:37:31,374 but were not able to scale. 450 00:37:31,457 --> 00:37:33,167 And then that’s when I left. 451 00:37:33,709 --> 00:37:37,797 And I realized, “This is as far as I can get.” 452 00:37:39,340 --> 00:37:43,469 It was like the confirmation of something that you know in your gut, 453 00:37:44,095 --> 00:37:48,099 and not rejecting, but actually understanding it 454 00:37:48,182 --> 00:37:50,643 as part of a whole system that needs to change. 455 00:37:59,485 --> 00:38:00,736 This is nice! 456 00:38:01,362 --> 00:38:05,283 I just saw them on the road… and I’m trying to look at them. 457 00:38:05,366 --> 00:38:09,078 This is what I use for my Imagination Car. 458 00:38:25,928 --> 00:38:28,306 Meet Emmanuel Alie Mansaray, 459 00:38:28,389 --> 00:38:31,851 a 24-year-old geology student of Fourah Bay College. 460 00:38:31,934 --> 00:38:36,272 Emmanuel has just created Sierra Leone's first locally made solar-powered car 461 00:38:36,355 --> 00:38:40,901 that is eco-friendly and does not use or need to use any form of fuel. 462 00:38:42,570 --> 00:38:46,907 First of all, my dad was the first person to see this on social media. 463 00:38:46,991 --> 00:38:49,118 And then he went to my door and knocked. 464 00:38:49,201 --> 00:38:52,705 “Emmanuel, wake up! I see this on Facebook, it’s you?” 465 00:38:52,788 --> 00:38:53,956 I said, “Yes, dad, it’s me.” 466 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:58,044 My dad was so happy and my mom, they were dancing. 467 00:38:58,127 --> 00:39:02,048 That day they cooked good for me, so I eat a lot, drink a lot! 468 00:39:02,590 --> 00:39:04,008 It was like a party at home. 469 00:39:05,134 --> 00:39:06,218 So I really feel good. 470 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:14,810 Anytime this car is in the streets, it causes traffic, serious traffic. 471 00:39:15,519 --> 00:39:17,396 People will stop their car. 472 00:39:17,897 --> 00:39:19,774 “We want to see this car!" 473 00:39:19,857 --> 00:39:23,527 People are shouting, even the bike riders, like the motor riders. 474 00:39:24,070 --> 00:39:27,281 They will be behind me, escorting me like a president. 475 00:39:27,365 --> 00:39:28,657 And I was like, “Wow!” 476 00:39:29,283 --> 00:39:33,204 People accept what I’m doing so I have this kind of joy. 477 00:39:35,164 --> 00:39:38,542 I feel good because people accept what I do for them. 478 00:39:40,711 --> 00:39:43,923 Proudly made in Sierra Leone! Green, white and blue! 479 00:39:50,679 --> 00:39:53,557 All of my friends, my community of people, 480 00:39:53,641 --> 00:39:56,894 “Congratulations, Emmanuel. You have done well. We're proud of you.” 481 00:39:57,770 --> 00:40:02,024 My dad said, “Yes, son, this is just the start. More to come for you.” 482 00:40:02,108 --> 00:40:03,442 I said, “Yes, dad. Amen." 483 00:40:13,202 --> 00:40:15,454 Then I started the GoFundMe campaign. 484 00:40:16,288 --> 00:40:22,169 My target was $10,000, and what I've earned is something like $700. 485 00:40:23,003 --> 00:40:26,257 Sometimes I feel discouraged, asking myself: 486 00:40:26,799 --> 00:40:29,552 "People don't trust me, people don't like what I'm doing." 487 00:40:29,677 --> 00:40:32,805 So, this makes me so sad. 488 00:40:36,809 --> 00:40:40,312 Because you have this vision, you have this passion to help people. 489 00:40:40,896 --> 00:40:43,983 And then you see your product not scaling up. It’s so painful. 490 00:40:59,874 --> 00:41:04,712 After my video went viral, the Baku Metro just contacted me 491 00:41:06,922 --> 00:41:09,925 and told me that there’s a new project, 492 00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:15,097 "It’s not a perfect solution but it might work." 493 00:41:16,432 --> 00:41:20,394 And they wanted me to be the first user of it. 494 00:41:22,688 --> 00:41:24,398 So, of course, I agreed. 495 00:41:25,983 --> 00:41:27,568 It was a new opportunity for me 496 00:41:28,319 --> 00:41:32,698 to make my city and my country more accessible. 497 00:41:37,953 --> 00:41:40,498 And mostly giving input on how to make this project 498 00:41:40,581 --> 00:41:42,416 more accessible and understandable. 499 00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:45,044 We choose the time, choose the place, that’s it. 500 00:41:46,337 --> 00:41:50,591 But there's one little problem, you have to call one hour beforehand 501 00:41:50,674 --> 00:41:53,469 because not all the stations have that accommodation, 502 00:41:53,552 --> 00:41:55,721 so they have to send their workers. 503 00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,225 It’s really frustrating. 504 00:42:00,601 --> 00:42:05,648 Some people have the vision in their mind that it can help people with wheelchairs, 505 00:42:05,731 --> 00:42:07,399 but actually it doesn’t. 506 00:42:08,025 --> 00:42:09,443 Because you don’t know. 507 00:42:09,527 --> 00:42:10,778 You aren't them. 508 00:42:10,861 --> 00:42:12,655 You didn’t have that life. 509 00:42:13,739 --> 00:42:15,950 Yes, it will be an improvement, 510 00:42:16,033 --> 00:42:18,202 but we have a long way to go. 511 00:42:34,218 --> 00:42:35,594 Hi Lieu, 512 00:42:36,971 --> 00:42:39,723 I would have come sooner if not for the pandemic. 513 00:42:41,141 --> 00:42:43,185 This is a notebook for you to take notes. 514 00:42:43,269 --> 00:42:46,897 I could give you the printed recipe. 515 00:42:47,106 --> 00:42:48,566 but you would not remember. 516 00:42:48,649 --> 00:42:51,527 Later, when I show you, write down what I say. 517 00:42:52,319 --> 00:42:57,825 We only need 3 things: sugar, waste and water 518 00:42:57,908 --> 00:42:59,743 to make the finished product. 519 00:43:04,248 --> 00:43:06,917 Of course I can’t guarantee 520 00:43:07,001 --> 00:43:10,337 that you will get rich or get out of poverty. 521 00:43:10,588 --> 00:43:13,132 But you’ll be able to put food on the table. 522 00:43:17,219 --> 00:43:20,389 Now let’s go inside and I’ll show you. 523 00:43:29,982 --> 00:43:31,442 This is the board of orders. 524 00:43:31,525 --> 00:43:33,485 We got many orders today. 525 00:43:33,569 --> 00:43:35,738 But we only process one order per day. 526 00:43:36,697 --> 00:43:38,824 We've sent our products to 63 provinces and cities. 527 00:43:38,907 --> 00:43:41,493 I hope we can sell more 528 00:43:41,702 --> 00:43:45,164 because then we could help more people. 529 00:43:57,885 --> 00:44:02,389 At first, I actually didn’t think of it as a business idea. 530 00:44:03,140 --> 00:44:05,100 I only thought about sharing with people. 531 00:44:05,184 --> 00:44:10,230 I have shared it with more than 1,000 women in Da Nang 532 00:44:10,314 --> 00:44:12,858 so they could make it at home. 533 00:44:12,983 --> 00:44:16,236 Then they could use it to clean their kitchens and their homes. 534 00:44:17,738 --> 00:44:20,616 My biggest dream is to do something for the community 535 00:44:20,699 --> 00:44:25,788 to return the support I received when I was a child. 536 00:44:29,541 --> 00:44:31,085 I am from a big family. 537 00:44:31,168 --> 00:44:32,961 I am the 10th and the youngest. 538 00:44:35,589 --> 00:44:40,094 My father died when my mother was six months pregnant with me. 539 00:44:43,597 --> 00:44:46,517 My mom died when I was one month and eight days old. 540 00:44:52,106 --> 00:44:53,941 Because of the war, 541 00:44:54,024 --> 00:44:58,612 I was separated from my family when I was two years old. 542 00:44:58,696 --> 00:45:01,115 The soldiers found me in the mountains 543 00:45:01,198 --> 00:45:04,284 and they brought me with them on their march in Truong Son. 544 00:45:06,787 --> 00:45:10,666 They sent me to a place that was housing ten people. 545 00:45:15,671 --> 00:45:17,631 One night, it rained so hard. 546 00:45:17,715 --> 00:45:21,969 The rain was terrible. The spot where I slept got wet. 547 00:45:22,052 --> 00:45:25,305 A woman brought me inside and she slept on my wet spot. 548 00:45:25,389 --> 00:45:29,643 I still remember it today. How could someone be so kind? 549 00:45:37,901 --> 00:45:41,780 In 2016, when I took part in a startup contest 550 00:45:41,905 --> 00:45:48,120 many people knew about the idea and the project I was working on. 551 00:45:49,455 --> 00:45:52,583 I got offers to sell from 2016 to 2019, 552 00:45:53,083 --> 00:45:56,253 but I refused every time. 553 00:45:57,963 --> 00:46:01,175 I started this with the hope of supporting the people around me. 554 00:46:01,258 --> 00:46:04,428 If I sell, I can’t help them anymore. 555 00:46:05,429 --> 00:46:08,432 That was the simple reason why I didn’t sell it, 556 00:46:08,515 --> 00:46:11,059 even though I was strapped for cash back then. 557 00:46:11,810 --> 00:46:14,480 If I had sold it then, I could have made 5 billion VND. 558 00:46:14,563 --> 00:46:16,732 That was a massive amount of money then, unlike today. 559 00:46:16,815 --> 00:46:22,780 I said at the beginning that I didn't start this for the money. 560 00:46:23,071 --> 00:46:26,742 I am not doing this to make loads and loads of money. 561 00:46:26,825 --> 00:46:28,702 I just need a stable life. 562 00:46:31,955 --> 00:46:33,916 So when I thought, 563 00:46:33,999 --> 00:46:37,169 if I sold this company those people would be helpless 564 00:46:37,252 --> 00:46:40,798 and they would have to go back to their old life, 565 00:46:40,881 --> 00:46:41,882 I just couldn’t do it. 566 00:46:54,478 --> 00:46:57,481 The way we framed innovation, it’s the inventor. 567 00:46:57,564 --> 00:47:01,360 It’ll be this commercial success, and then grows and spreads. 568 00:47:01,443 --> 00:47:04,029 And now we celebrate and they get a TED Talk. 569 00:47:04,822 --> 00:47:05,864 Good for that person. 570 00:47:06,490 --> 00:47:08,242 Maybe not so good for the community. 571 00:47:10,452 --> 00:47:13,831 Sometimes that locks up the innovation, and no one else can use it. 572 00:47:13,914 --> 00:47:16,500 And then it becomes, also, a rule 573 00:47:16,583 --> 00:47:20,629 for what is accepted legally or regulated away. 574 00:47:22,381 --> 00:47:25,175 We love hero stories, we’re humans. 575 00:47:25,968 --> 00:47:27,344 So we love the hero story. 576 00:47:27,427 --> 00:47:31,598 We love the story of an individual that has made it against the odds. 577 00:47:32,599 --> 00:47:35,561 So along with the story of the hero, 578 00:47:35,644 --> 00:47:40,649 we hope that the story of the problem they were trying to solve… comes along. 579 00:47:42,484 --> 00:47:47,155 When you look at something that's working for the people who live there, 580 00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,158 and you come in with this problematized frame 581 00:47:50,242 --> 00:47:51,618 and we’re going to solve it, 582 00:47:51,702 --> 00:47:56,123 then you lose out on the innovation and energy that’s actually going on. 583 00:47:56,665 --> 00:47:59,626 And you lose out on supporting that, and most likely, 584 00:48:00,127 --> 00:48:02,337 you’re going to damage it with your solution. 585 00:48:04,673 --> 00:48:06,466 The problem is not going to be solved 586 00:48:06,550 --> 00:48:09,136 only by individuals coming up with solutions. 587 00:48:09,678 --> 00:48:11,555 They’re going to be solved by systems. 588 00:48:12,139 --> 00:48:15,475 So hopefully we get beyond the hero stories, 589 00:48:15,559 --> 00:48:19,354 to then ask, "What was that system that needed changing?" 590 00:48:19,438 --> 00:48:23,275 and "How can we bring resources and power to solve that problem?" 591 00:48:30,949 --> 00:48:35,996 Imagine a river in the mountains of Meghalaya, India. 592 00:48:37,164 --> 00:48:42,419 The roots of a rubber fig tree break out of the bank, reaching over the water. 593 00:48:43,378 --> 00:48:47,382 Starting on your side, you begin to build a bridge from them. 594 00:48:48,175 --> 00:48:52,304 Looking up, you see others building from the other side. 595 00:48:53,722 --> 00:48:57,225 Wouldn’t the best way to cross that river be to meet in the middle? 596 00:49:28,799 --> 00:49:31,885 It's been about ten years now 597 00:49:31,969 --> 00:49:34,429 that the climate has been affecting us. 598 00:49:35,263 --> 00:49:38,725 The climate has become disorganized. It's not like it used to be. 599 00:49:41,395 --> 00:49:44,064 In the last ten years things have gotten a lot worse. 600 00:49:44,439 --> 00:49:47,442 That is why most of the population 601 00:49:47,526 --> 00:49:51,446 have already decided to rebuild the platforms. 602 00:49:53,949 --> 00:49:55,492 Here in Ancocala, 603 00:49:55,575 --> 00:49:57,828 we are using a combination 604 00:49:57,911 --> 00:50:03,125 of natural and hand-made infrastructure. 605 00:50:04,710 --> 00:50:06,169 And we have also recovered 606 00:50:06,253 --> 00:50:10,173 the ancestral knowledge that comes from the Incas 607 00:50:10,632 --> 00:50:14,344 so that we can adapt and have more water 608 00:50:14,428 --> 00:50:18,390 not only during the rainy season, but during the dry season too. 609 00:50:20,809 --> 00:50:23,437 If it weren't for the terraces, 610 00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,189 I know that the soil 611 00:50:26,898 --> 00:50:29,484 would have been destroyed by the flow of the water 612 00:50:30,485 --> 00:50:33,321 and we wouldn't have an acceptable level of production. 613 00:50:36,116 --> 00:50:38,827 They're not professionals, 614 00:50:39,202 --> 00:50:41,997 they're not educated people, 615 00:50:42,456 --> 00:50:46,126 but they've been able to complete projects 616 00:50:46,209 --> 00:50:48,253 to do construction. 617 00:50:50,172 --> 00:50:52,424 We're trying to make the community self-sustaining. 618 00:50:53,216 --> 00:50:59,014 because otherwise people would migrate to the cities. 619 00:51:04,311 --> 00:51:06,104 These local innovations 620 00:51:06,188 --> 00:51:08,148 should not just stay in Ancocala. 621 00:51:08,231 --> 00:51:13,278 They should spread to other places in the Andes 622 00:51:13,361 --> 00:51:15,697 and hopefully throughout the world. 623 00:51:43,558 --> 00:51:48,230 I tried to talk about this project to all the people that I met 624 00:51:48,313 --> 00:51:50,482 because it needs to be known. 625 00:51:53,151 --> 00:51:57,614 Recently, we were in conversation with another government institution. 626 00:51:57,781 --> 00:52:00,450 They were talking about a new project for the handicapped. 627 00:52:00,617 --> 00:52:04,412 I said: "Yes, but I don't have a problem with the work you do." 628 00:52:04,746 --> 00:52:08,250 Problem is, handicapped people don't participate in those projects. 629 00:52:08,500 --> 00:52:10,252 They decide for you. 630 00:52:10,418 --> 00:52:11,670 Yes, this is the problem. 631 00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,923 I would be happy with the work if there was a level of participation. 632 00:52:15,215 --> 00:52:17,342 But if I don't participate, if I don't have a say, 633 00:52:17,509 --> 00:52:19,261 -you can't say it's work done for me. -Right. 634 00:52:19,553 --> 00:52:23,598 Actually, we have a comprehensive slogan at the UN, 635 00:52:24,099 --> 00:52:26,268 about the inclusion of the handicapped. 636 00:52:26,434 --> 00:52:28,520 "Nothing about us without us." 637 00:52:28,603 --> 00:52:30,730 Yes! That’s the point! 638 00:52:36,820 --> 00:52:40,448 So when we look at the kinds of grassroots innovations 639 00:52:40,532 --> 00:52:43,869 that we set out to map and document and amplify. 640 00:52:44,327 --> 00:52:46,746 If we don’t see those as innovations in the first place, 641 00:52:46,830 --> 00:52:51,293 if we don’t see people, regardless of how much money they have, 642 00:52:51,376 --> 00:52:54,421 or where they live, or how much education they have, 643 00:52:54,504 --> 00:52:56,256 as owners of knowledge. 644 00:52:56,339 --> 00:52:59,926 Then, yes, their great ideas, their ingenuity is not being counted. 645 00:53:01,178 --> 00:53:06,057 Unless you're counted, you don’t exist, which is an enormous shame, 646 00:53:06,141 --> 00:53:10,187 given the state of the world today, which needs everything we can throw at it. 647 00:53:11,938 --> 00:53:15,859 So that’s why now we have this global innovation ecosystem. 648 00:53:16,568 --> 00:53:19,529 It’s more about connecting than it's about collecting, 649 00:53:19,613 --> 00:53:21,990 so it’s exciting because we’re going to start to see 650 00:53:22,073 --> 00:53:25,035 more and more solutions and connect them to each other 651 00:53:25,368 --> 00:53:27,204 to hopefully make some breakthroughs. 652 00:53:32,375 --> 00:53:36,796 We need a global platform that will not merely search for solutions 653 00:53:37,047 --> 00:53:41,218 but also spread them as DIY solutions, do-it-yourself solutions. 654 00:53:42,510 --> 00:53:46,306 International networks often arrange and facilitate networking 655 00:53:46,389 --> 00:53:49,351 among the professionals, among the policymakers, 656 00:53:49,434 --> 00:53:51,269 among the managers of the system. 657 00:53:51,353 --> 00:53:54,731 But what is becoming possible that this partnership now 658 00:53:54,814 --> 00:53:56,650 can connect people themselves. 659 00:54:14,292 --> 00:54:18,880 I'm heading into Conakry, Guinea, to meet with colleagues and innovators 660 00:54:18,964 --> 00:54:23,677 to partner with them, to collaborate with them, to share ideas, 661 00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:27,973 to see how best we can bring up possible solutions to help our people. 662 00:54:28,056 --> 00:54:31,351 Actually, we met on the for Tomorrow platform. 663 00:54:31,434 --> 00:54:35,939 We're all changemakers, we're all innovators sharing ideas, 664 00:54:36,022 --> 00:54:40,860 as well as scaling them up to become something big in society. 665 00:54:41,778 --> 00:54:44,239 I've never traveled out of Sierra Leone. 666 00:54:44,322 --> 00:54:47,575 This will be my first adventure taking such a trip. 667 00:54:47,659 --> 00:54:49,703 Yeah, I’m so excited. 668 00:54:50,495 --> 00:54:53,915 I've been working in Africa for over 30 years. 669 00:54:53,999 --> 00:54:58,545 I’ve been developing a project that involves creating a new vehicle, 670 00:54:58,628 --> 00:55:02,882 it’s a solar-powered electric tricycle to reduce CO2 emissions 671 00:55:02,966 --> 00:55:05,802 and to bring electricity to the farthest regions. 672 00:55:07,262 --> 00:55:10,515 We started chatting, Emmanuel and I, on the platform, 673 00:55:10,598 --> 00:55:12,600 and we had an interesting exchange, 674 00:55:12,684 --> 00:55:16,146 and we were looking forward to meeting in person in Conakry. 675 00:55:16,730 --> 00:55:20,859 Yeah, the connection was so great. I would say that's a very good bridge. 676 00:55:20,942 --> 00:55:22,360 They showed me the lab. 677 00:55:23,028 --> 00:55:26,239 -This is the lab? -Yeah, this is the lab, the fab lab. 678 00:55:26,323 --> 00:55:28,742 Everything was all about electronics. 679 00:55:28,825 --> 00:55:30,160 Wow, a drone! 680 00:55:30,243 --> 00:55:34,873 This one is for us to see the circuits inside this one. 681 00:55:35,498 --> 00:55:39,586 The oxygenator, it helps you get oxygen from outside. 682 00:55:39,669 --> 00:55:41,713 And we have this kind of connection. 683 00:55:41,796 --> 00:55:44,632 We have this kind of collaborative partnership. 684 00:55:44,716 --> 00:55:47,010 We're going to work together. 685 00:55:58,104 --> 00:56:03,109 I think people all over the world are facing the same difficulties, 686 00:56:04,402 --> 00:56:07,697 and there's a clear need for technological infrastructure 687 00:56:07,781 --> 00:56:11,326 that can connect people going through similar problems 688 00:56:11,409 --> 00:56:13,453 and with which they can solve them. 689 00:56:13,536 --> 00:56:18,375 I think that at this time, platforms such as 'for Tomorrow' and 'ZERO1NE' 690 00:56:19,250 --> 00:56:24,005 can play a pivotal role in achieving that goal. 691 00:56:32,263 --> 00:56:35,392 Hello Jamila, I’m Young-jin from Korea. 692 00:56:35,475 --> 00:56:36,893 Hi! 693 00:56:36,976 --> 00:56:41,398 It would be better to speak in Korean with my translator, okay? 694 00:56:41,523 --> 00:56:43,441 Okay, first question. 695 00:56:43,525 --> 00:56:46,361 When did you start using the wheelchair? 696 00:56:46,403 --> 00:56:49,239 I started using a wheelchair at 13. 697 00:56:49,781 --> 00:56:50,824 At 13? 698 00:56:53,284 --> 00:56:57,831 He’d like to know how you can improve a wheelchair. 699 00:56:57,914 --> 00:57:00,500 Do you have any ideas in mind? 700 00:57:01,042 --> 00:57:05,171 I would love to, when I can, modify my wheelchair by myself 701 00:57:05,255 --> 00:57:08,216 because it’s really hard to find someone to fix it. 702 00:57:08,299 --> 00:57:12,637 In your project, I would love to see some wheelchairs that I can fix, 703 00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:16,641 I can adjust the height or other things by myself, 704 00:57:16,724 --> 00:57:18,059 not needing anyone else. 705 00:57:21,980 --> 00:57:26,651 We need to be more efficient and bring concrete improvements 706 00:57:26,734 --> 00:57:29,988 to cope with the many challenges of the future. 707 00:57:30,822 --> 00:57:34,367 I've come to realize that the answer to all those challenges 708 00:57:34,451 --> 00:57:37,537 lie in people's creativity. 709 00:57:38,997 --> 00:57:41,458 The private sector has to be part of the solution. 710 00:57:42,125 --> 00:57:45,920 You need multidiscipline. You cannot just come from one discipline. 711 00:57:46,588 --> 00:57:52,135 You need ways of tapping from the very rich grassroot world 712 00:57:52,218 --> 00:57:56,764 and information and assets that there are in order to make a difference. 713 00:58:06,316 --> 00:58:10,695 Hi, my name is Sung-geun Park and I’m a solar systems engineer. 714 00:58:10,778 --> 00:58:13,239 Hello, my name is Rira Kang. 715 00:58:13,323 --> 00:58:15,825 I'm Emmanuel Alie Mansaray. 716 00:58:16,409 --> 00:58:19,829 I’m Balde Tiguidanké and I’m the managing partner 717 00:58:19,913 --> 00:58:23,750 responsible for market access of Solar E-Cycle, with Roger. 718 00:58:23,833 --> 00:58:29,047 This is Paola Constantino from Guatemala UNDP Accelerator Lab. 719 00:58:29,130 --> 00:58:30,798 I'm Head of Solutions Mapping. 720 00:58:30,882 --> 00:58:34,928 My name is Alfredo Maul, I’m also from Guatemala. 721 00:58:35,386 --> 00:58:36,804 I’m a frugal innovator. 722 00:58:37,347 --> 00:58:41,226 We have actually completed our working prototype 723 00:58:41,309 --> 00:58:44,854 that could be replicated not only in the Americas 724 00:58:44,938 --> 00:58:47,273 but also in other parts of the world. 725 00:58:47,357 --> 00:58:51,402 I’d like to know what kind of obstacles you're facing now. 726 00:58:51,986 --> 00:58:53,112 Maybe we can help. 727 00:58:53,196 --> 00:58:55,949 There are 600 million people that don’t have access 728 00:58:56,032 --> 00:58:57,700 to electricity in Africa. 729 00:58:57,784 --> 00:59:01,412 So a solar-powered vehicle with a battery pack 730 00:59:01,955 --> 00:59:06,167 could bring electricity to anybody’s home in Africa. 731 00:59:06,251 --> 00:59:09,796 In the rural areas, we don’t have infrastructure like cities. 732 00:59:09,879 --> 00:59:15,260 We have very narrow roads, probably the topography is really hard. 733 00:59:15,343 --> 00:59:18,680 So when you think about the e-tricycle, 734 00:59:18,763 --> 00:59:23,434 when you think about the Imagination Solar Car that Emmanuel 735 00:59:23,518 --> 00:59:26,062 and the solar tuk-tuk here in Guatemala, 736 00:59:26,145 --> 00:59:29,190 people are responding to the local conditions. 737 00:59:29,274 --> 00:59:34,862 And I think that, here, we have the chance to look ahead, to look forward. 738 00:59:34,862 --> 00:59:39,367 If I may start, by listening to what you've said today, 739 00:59:39,450 --> 00:59:42,996 we've discovered many things we hadn't thought of. 740 00:59:43,079 --> 00:59:45,456 It's been a real eye-opener. 741 00:59:47,834 --> 00:59:53,131 So networking people across the world is always helpful, right? 742 00:59:53,214 --> 00:59:54,299 And it's powerful. 743 00:59:56,134 --> 00:59:57,343 Is it enough? 744 00:59:57,885 --> 01:00:00,805 No, it never is, right? It never is enough. 745 01:00:00,888 --> 01:00:02,473 It’s a great step. 746 01:00:03,224 --> 01:00:06,394 But bringing visibility to it elevates it 747 01:00:06,477 --> 01:00:08,980 and maybe changes the narrative 748 01:00:09,063 --> 01:00:12,900 of how we should solve problems in the world. 749 01:00:16,112 --> 01:00:19,991 We really want to change the way that people think about development. 750 01:00:23,870 --> 01:00:26,706 This is actually giving new meaning to “We the people.” 751 01:00:26,789 --> 01:00:31,419 This is saying, "There's intelligence, there's invention, there's creativity, 752 01:00:31,502 --> 01:00:34,339 there's power in all eight billion of us." 753 01:00:36,841 --> 01:00:40,678 You do what you can with whatever you have. 754 01:00:40,762 --> 01:00:45,725 You look around, you see what’s wrong. You think, "How can I improve it?", 755 01:00:45,808 --> 01:00:47,810 "How can I make it better?", 756 01:00:47,894 --> 01:00:51,689 "How can I change my life or change the life of people around me?" 757 01:00:53,191 --> 01:00:56,235 You don’t need to be a technologically savvy person 758 01:00:56,319 --> 01:00:59,155 or an IT person to make an innovation. 759 01:00:59,238 --> 01:01:02,659 You can genuinely solve a problem of your community 760 01:01:02,742 --> 01:01:04,786 and that will be the innovation as well. 761 01:01:04,869 --> 01:01:08,289 If it’s new and refreshing, and helps, it has an impact. 762 01:01:11,250 --> 01:01:13,461 I consider myself as a soldier. 763 01:01:14,504 --> 01:01:16,798 I just fight for something I believe. 764 01:01:17,590 --> 01:01:22,261 I use my knowledge, I use my words, I use my confidence to fight. 765 01:01:31,270 --> 01:01:34,482 I know there’s a lot of people who still think I’m limited. 766 01:01:37,485 --> 01:01:39,946 Because their visions are limited. 767 01:01:52,834 --> 01:01:55,753 Can we teach ourselves to really see? 768 01:01:56,796 --> 01:01:58,840 Can we unlearn what blinds us 769 01:01:58,923 --> 01:02:02,260 to the potential that exists where we least expect it? 770 01:02:03,469 --> 01:02:08,099 Like the Khasi people who keep the knowledge of their ancestors alive 771 01:02:08,182 --> 01:02:09,726 with their root bridges. 772 01:02:22,447 --> 01:02:25,700 We can see what we need to cross to the other side. 773 01:02:27,869 --> 01:02:30,455 For ourselves, for each other... 774 01:02:31,748 --> 01:02:32,790 For Tomorrow. 775 01:02:36,127 --> 01:02:40,298 We all have something to learn, and we all have something to teach. 776 01:02:41,340 --> 01:02:42,550 We need to come together. 777 01:02:42,633 --> 01:02:46,512 We need to find new and innovative ways of working together. 778 01:02:47,930 --> 01:02:52,351 The challenges we face today aren’t going to be solved by individual heroes. 779 01:02:54,187 --> 01:02:56,939 They're going to be solved by communal efforts. 780 01:02:58,566 --> 01:03:02,278 What would be your message to the rest of the world? 781 01:03:03,863 --> 01:03:07,241 I would like to tell the whole world... 782 01:03:07,992 --> 01:03:09,619 to value what they have, 783 01:03:09,952 --> 01:03:12,622 the water, the air and the landscape. 784 01:03:14,415 --> 01:03:17,877 It's much better to have more plants 785 01:03:18,669 --> 01:03:21,005 than many buildings. 786 01:03:23,549 --> 01:03:28,262 You could say that water is life. 787 01:03:29,013 --> 01:03:31,933 You can be happy in this life, on this planet. 788 01:03:38,689 --> 01:03:40,483 Well done!