Bono's Three Wishes

U2's Bono recently spoke to attendees at the Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference about "three wishes" that he has for the world.

Before getting to them, a little background: TED brings together some of the world's best thinkers and visionaries for a four day annual conference in Monterey, California. This year, the conference handed out its first TED Prize, which comes with $100,000 in cash. But even better, each recipient is granted three wishes and the people who attend TED will help them make those wishes come true.

Bono's three wishes?

1. Build a social movement of more than ONE MILLION American activists for Africa.
2. Tell people ONE BILLION times about The One Campaign, which asks for the U.S. to spend an additional one percent of the U.S. budget to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty.
3. Connect every hospital, health clinic, and school in Ethiopia to the internet.

If you'd like to help Bono fulfill his wishes, you can sign The One Declaration.

To learn more of what Bono said at the TED conference, read this attendee's detailed account.

Our generation is the first generation that can look poverty and disease in the eye and say, 'we do not have to stand for this.' This is the moment you were designed for, the ideas you thought about in your youth. Because of us, we can change not just the digital world, but the physical world... We're afraid to get too excited about making a change even if we realize we have the potential to, because once we acknowledge that we can, we MUST do something about it.

The other TED Prize winners? Canadian photo-artist Edward Burtynsky and medical technologies pioneer Robert Fischell.

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