Two weeks ago Abraham said to me, “La Colectiva has got to be present at the Social Good Summit” - and by La Colectiva he meant “me” - for he was having his firstborn that weekend and Manolo was in Buenos Aires shooting a documentary.
So,
I hired a weekend nanny that cost me more than the ticket for the 3-day summit (totally worth it) and geared up with my press pass and my new and very small Mac air, I sat through hours and hours of listening to amazing speakers, whom gave us genuinely good information, that kept me inspired and forced me to starve. They were zero breaks and I didn’t want to miss a thing.
“The Social Good Summit sparked a record-setting global conversation on using social media and technology for good. According to RecordSetter, on Monday, September 24th, 2012, the Social Good Summit set the record for the largest global conversation on one topic to take place in a single day.”
The Twitter hashtag #SGSGlobal trended locally, nationally, and globally during the course of the summit and has been used over 60,000 times to date. The live-stream of the summit was translated in real-time in seven languages including all six official UN languages, making the proceedings available to people around the world, free of charge via the Internet.
The summit was hosted by: Mashable, 92nd Street Y, the United Nations Foundation, Ericsson, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the United Nations Development Program.
And I take my hat off to all of them, I always get amazed when (among others) the leaders in innovation - give their two cents (or much more) - to help save the world.
Themes from around the world continue to unfold and are being curated through The Global Conversation:
3 amazing moments from the Summit:
"We are living at a moment when anyone can be a diplomat. All you have to do is hit SEND." - Hillary Clinton “One thing the humanitarian world doesn’t do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.” - Nicholas Kristof (writer and Times columnist)
“We have to not just open our eyes to what’s going on in other places; we need to open our eyes to what’s going on right in front of us.” - Forest Whitaker, artist and UNESCO goodwill ambassador
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