Open-Access Multimedia Resources

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1. “Davos Annual Meeting 2008--Bill Gates,” World Economic Forum, January 25, 2008 (37 min).

2. “A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century.”

“The best stats you’ve ever seen” by Hans Rosling, TED2006, February 2006 (20 min).

Description: Innovative look at the developing world that has influenced the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hVimVzgtD6w

“Muhammad Yunus--Banker to the Poor,” Infinite Fire, Inc., May 7, 2014 (7.5 min).

Description: “This brief documentary provides a quick overview of one of the greatest humanitarians of modern times. A Nobel Prize-winning Social Entrepreneur, Muhammad Yunus invented the idea of micro-finance to help combat global poverty.”

Unilever Sustainable Living Plan” by Paul Polman, The One Young World Summit, 2014 (39 min).

Description: “Ensuring that the progress of today does not compromise the development of tomorrow is a great responsibility facing the One Young World delegation. Unilever CEO Paul Polman addresses the need to make sustainable living commonplace and how young people are critical to driving change.”

“Poverty, Inc.,” Action Media, October 23, 2014 (trailer, 2 min).

Description: A look at the business of addressing poverty around the world.