Participants at TED Global — this week's conference in Arusha, Tanzania, for high-tech do-gooders — will learn how African women walk up to ten miles each day to draw water. It's a daily grind with which some of the more privileged attendees won't really be able to identify. Sergey Brin and Larry Page have flown their favorite Tedsters over in the Google founders' "party plane".
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Poverty tourism
Participants at TED Global — this week's conference in Arusha, Tanzania, for high-tech do-gooders — will learn how African women walk up to ten miles each day to draw water. It's a daily grind with which some of the more privileged attendees won't really be able to identify. Sergey Brin and Larry Page have flown their favorite Tedsters over in the Google founders' "party plane".
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