Aflatoun inspires children and youth aged 6–18 years to empower themselves by offering social & financial education in the context of their rights and responsibilities.

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Businesses, especially multinational enterprises, but also individuals with global social networks are willing, and very able, to take on many of the challenges that the Millennium Development Goals were set to tackle. Maybe better than national governments are. However, raising funds and volunteering across borders is sometimes very hard to do. We need to find a way to lift some of the barriers and encourage international action by both individuals and companies.

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<p>This is your chance to tell the i20 event attendees what’s really important to you and where you think they should focus their energy. Help set the agenda for this milestone large-scale innovation forum. Formulate a question which will help them probe innovation and global challenges.</p><p><br></p>

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The logo does a good job of visualising what wikipedia (basically a crowd-sourced encyclopedia) is all about

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The HUB is about the power of innovation through collaboration. It's a global network of 25+ physical spaces that enclose some 4000+ social entrepreneurs and social innovators, working collaboratively to develop impacting ventures for a better world.

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The United Nations (UN) Global Pulse initiative is working to close the information gap from the onset of a crisis by using publicly available data to protect individuals in developing countries.

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Prepare yourself with this question: How would I "rebuild the world" to be environmentally sound, crops to be plentiful, homes to be available, disease to be eradicated? It should come to no surprise that the issues we faced hundreds of years ago still exist today, considering we use a very traditional approach to dealing with them. Our efforts should be ever changing to meet the ever changing troubles we, as a species, have faced. My question to you is why haven't the worlds leaders given resource based economics a chance? Many forms of literature are available to anyone interested in making this a reality. Only looking through our proposal with an objective approach will you successfully collaborate into making this either (in your eyes) more realistic or more plausible. Be aware that over a half a million members of The Zeitgeist Movement are already up in arms to make this plan a reality. What say you?

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Early in 2011 a group of global innovation leaders – known as the i20 – will meet for a global innovation summit. They are the principal drivers of national innovation strategies across thirty countries. You can influence their summit agenda. OpenIDEO contributions will be used to help determine priorities and directions for the conference.

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Jane's Walks are named in honour of urbanist Jane Jacobs to get people out of their cars, homes and offices to explore their city and see it anew. It encourages community but also rediscovery of the city around us. They are held in 9 countries worldwide, 68 cities, and there were 424 walks as of 2009.

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Add a little flavor to their life, and they'll be open to trying anything.

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