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In the three years we organized TEDxAmsterdam, we have gotten a lot of reactions of people in the TED community who want to contribute. Listening to ideas is inspiring, but real ideas incite action. To support the inspirational speakers of TEDxAmsterdam we have changed TED’s motto ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’ to ‘Ideas Worth Doing’. We have selected three ideas and together with a lot of volunteers and the TEDx community we are supporting these three project.

We proudly present the three Ideas Worth Doing of 2012:

Boosting Burundi

During TEDxChange in 2010 Consolata Ndayishimiye (head of the Chamber of Commerce in Burundi) and Leanne Bogers met each other and had an instant click. Consolata was looking for help to find the Burundi diaspora and attract business to get t