It's not something that we should be surprised by.

So this is a story of a place that I now call home.

Only 6.8 percent of all our philanthropic giving in the U.S. right now benefits rural communities, and yet 20 percent of our population lives there.

Technology is transformational.

In other parts, it doesn't.

Some of the things that emerge from it are local food projects,

Benefits accrue to the community from reconstruction.

(Laughter) So I don't have a problem with developers making money.

So there's only 27 people per square mile, which comes down to about 10 people per square kilometer.

And they sent me off to school, just to get busy somewhere there.

It's a SaintJulien, Château Léoville Las Cases, '53.

So we're talking about things like infill development really sharp little changes to where we have buildings, where we're developing.

United Emirates, Abu Dhabi.

It has one in three of its children living in poverty, and it's what is referred to as a rural ghetto.

What I mean by that is that in some parts of the world, the government plays a key role in the development of technology.

Now, I'm sure a male reporter in Kabul can find women to interview.

African farmers only use some 22 kilograms of fertilizer per hectare, compared to 144 in Asia.

It's a global village.

They provide opportunities to be more physically active, as well as local economic development.

So while this is a very small story, we hope that it represents a step in the right direction for the future of rural communities and for the future of public education and hopefully also for the future of design.

So in many cases this is not so much about making change as it is creating the conditions under which change is possible and the incentive to want to make change, which is easier said than done in rural communities and in inside the box education systems in rural communities.

We had fallen in love with the place and the people and the work that we're able to do in a rural place like Bertie County, that, as designers and builders, you can't do everywhere.

The quiet country road is a road to danger.

Well, a good guide is to think,

And we're going to fix them by imposing back on them street and block systems and returning to the building lot as the normal increment of development.

The U.N. broadband commission has recently set targets to help broadband access in 50 percent of the Developing World, compared to 20 percent today.

The real question is, how can markets be developed in rural Africa to harness the power of innovation and entrepreneurship that we know exists?

And my intention was to go out to the gyre, raise awareness about this issue and begin to pick up the plastic, chip it into little bits and cold mold it into bricks that could potentially be used as building materials in underdeveloped communities.

Like, you know, just as you get into the malaria zone, sub Saharan Africa.

And what you do when you go to any new site is you kind of roll out a franchise.

In olden times, serfs ran away from their landlords and settled on the Don.

And so as we see in this image of light during the night, there are lots of areas of the Earth where human development is much greater and other areas where it's much less, but between them we see large dark areas of relatively unexplored ocean.

So what are we waiting for?

So that's what this figure shows you.

It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and

Now, the next impact is on farm families, their neighbors, and rural communities.

led to a development of an innovative system that we've open sourced.

And guess what?

The third thing is again cities.

And I had the pleasure to work on the central plaza.

How much livestock do you need to produce this?

And you can participate.

And it's all built on the foundation of healthy, living soil.

This woman went back and solar electrified the first village, set up a workshop the first village ever to be solar electrified in Afghanistan was by the three women.

If you are a local guy, girl, a local group, a church, or a municpal leader, who sees the benefit of community power and you want to build community resilliancy.