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To address the problem of counterfeit goods, African entrepreneurs like Bright Simons have come up with innovative and effective ways to confirm products are genuine. Now he asks: Why aren't these solutions everywhere? From password-protected medicines to digitally certified crops, Simons demonstrates the power of local ideas — and calls on the rest of the world to listen up.
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How are people already disliking when the vid released a min ago
My guess is bias.
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@rohith reddy lol sure
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Who else thought it was Samuel L. Jackson in the thumbnail
There are even more powerful ideas coming out of there – to actually do the counterfeiting.
Because counterfeit goods only have a single source, one spawn of evil.
Yeah no.
Counterfeit goods are there because the original item is far too expensive for the majority. The big companies blame development costs, or at least use this partly as an excuse to overprice their medicines.
You have any idea how much time and money it takes to bring a drug to market? Billions. And that’s assuming the drug actually passes trials and gets approved for sale.
@Xaro Xhoan Daxos when the government of South African threatened to ignore licenses and reproduce anti viral Aids medicine for themselves, the big pharmaceutical companies reduced the price from 100 USA dollars to 2 per package. Because the formula was known but patented. Now everybody gets them for free from the government.
@Play Dog bullshit. They not free. The tax payer pays for them. NOTHING IS FREE.
Xaro Xhoan Daxos it doesnt cost anything if they are no patent rights to purchase by pharmacy
Why are ted talks so short now.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
“Solutions are packaged ideas” – Bright Simons
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Don’t mean to sound cynical here, but these ideas have been employed across developed countries for years. Bar codes and regulations? These dont appear to be new ideas at all
Ur right. They’re old ideas but won’t be implemented because of corruption in d developing countries.if companies in Africa are made to pay heavy fines for damages, all dese issues will be history. Ders too much corruption, no regulation. No value for life and no repercursion for wrongdoing.
I could swear that crypto currency transaction verification isn’t new and is more potent but I could be wrong
Great idea!
Awesome
I know what it’s like to have solutions to so many world problems. To watch humanity commit suicide by not doing the obvious. The one problem I haven’t found a solution to is letting a significant number of people know they exist.
And poor consistory have it worse.
This was excellent. I had to put the captions on to truly understand him, glad I did. It’s a shame that many of us have never heard of these ideas.
This deserves 20k views by tomorrow
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