Jessica Griggs, a reporter for New Scientist, learned about Question Box at TED Global 2009 and was impressed.

Whooping and saving the world at TED

Jessica Griggs, reporter

I am at the TED Global 2009 conference at Oxford, UK.

TED stands for technology, entertainment and design. They say it is the only conference in the world that actually makes a profit – not surprising when tickets are $4500 a pop.

Highlights included Jonathan Gosier, the founder of a software startup called AppAfrica. Gosier introduced us to Question Box, a service which effectively provides a speaking Wikipedia for people in remote villages in India and Africa without access to the internet and those unable to read.