TED Global 2009 Fellows announced!

From the TED website, Nuhu Ribadu and 24 other individuals have been named TED Global 2009 fellows. They include:

Frederick Balagadde, PhD (Uganda/USA) — Research scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; co-inventor of the microchemostat, a medical diagnostic chip
Jonathan Gosier (US/Uganda) — Founder, Appfrica, an organization nurturing and investing in East African software startups
Peter Haas (US/Haiti/Guatemala) — Founder, Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group, bringing appropriate technology to the developing world; tinkerer
Fred Swaniker (Ghana/South Africa) — Founder, African Leadership Academy, a secondary school for the next generation of African leaders
Alexander Petroff (US/Democratic Republic of the Congo) — Founder, Working Villages International, an organization building sustainable villages in the DRC

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