Right now global leaders throughout the world are wrapping up the Social Good Summit.
What is this?
Social Good Summit was launched three years ago during UN Week as an answer to the meetings that took place behind closed doors. The goal: use technology to allow people access to express their thoughts and speak their mind about solving the world’s most pressing issues.
So for those folks not within the confined walls of the UN General Assembly, today technology brings their ideas into the picture. Your voice matters. Check out the voices from the around the world that chimed in this week:
What does it mean?
The Social Good Summit gathers feedback. What’s next? How do we solve our world’s greatest challenges for the next 15 years?
The hashtag #2030NOW allows summit participants to add their voice, the voice of many people and organizations around the world, to the conversation. The goal: Let those behind the closed-door meetings know what needs attention NOW in order to make the world a better place in 2030.
The international development community is buzzing with what comes after 2015 – when the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) forceful global effort to meet the needs of the world’s poor expire.
I know my answer. I am not alone. Girl education.
I leave you with a commentary from global leader, Jennifer Buffett – Extreme Poverty Can Be Eradicated By 2030 — But Only If We Put Adolescent Girls At The Heart Of The Post-2015 Agenda
Peace, Love and #2030NOW
Cristen
