Celebrating 1.6 Million MY World Votes from Mexico City
By Di Cao – Global Youth Advocate at the UN Millennium Campaign Answering the United Nations Secretary-General’s call, MY World was developed with one clear goal in mind —to reach out to people all over the world— and ask them: “What would make your life better?” As an integral part of the UN’s “global conversation” initiative, […]
Visually explore MY World data with Popily
Humans of the world can now visually explore the data from the MY World global survey in new ways. Popily – a data science and visualization company — has uploaded the open data from the survey onto their site, allowing users to further investigate, discuss and understand the survey via thousands of data visualizations. The […]
UNMC screens sneak preview of new Virtual Reality film: Waves of Grace
The United Nations Millennium Campaign screened a sneak preview of their latest Virtual Reality film, Waves of Grace on Friday 10 July at the United Nations. Its premier was planned in conjunction with the United Nations Secretary-General’s International Ebola Recovery Conference, hosted to ensure affected countries receive the support they need to end the epidemic and continue countries […]
‘我的世界’关注留守儿童－UMUNC Takes MY World Survey to “Left-Behind Children” in China
By UMUNC China Serene Lian “优梦中国”在My World招募志愿者活动取得巨大成果之后，我们的团队进而开始思索：我们的调查结果真的能让世界知道中国真的需要什么吗？是否我们的调查能够真正覆盖多样化的中国青少年群体？我们怎样才能让处在更复杂环境中的人有机会表达自己的需求呢？ UMUNC China has worked towards made great strides in gaining support from volunteers to promote MY World in China. Our team was concerned with how to really use our data to let the world know what China really needs. Can our data really illustrate the multi-dimensions of China’s […]
Advocating for ‘Action Taken On Climate Change’ at COP 20
Countries came together last month at COP 20, the annual UN Climate Change Conference, to negotiate and shape the contribution they will give to vastly reduce their carbon emissions, before a commitment in Paris. Peru hosted the conference that drew over 15,000 people to Lima. Peru will be one of the countries most affected by climate change impacts. Responsible for only 0.1% of […]
MY World reaches 5 MILLION votes – The Celebration!
September 25, 2014, NEW YORK Blog by Caya Johnson, Global Youth Advocate THANKS A (FIVE) MILLION TO ALL MY WORLD PARTNERS! If you were unable to attend, please enjoy the web-stream and picture album of the celebration The evening of 25th of September during the UN General Assembly week brought together MY World friends from far […]
Call for Nominations for MY World Partner Recognition Awards!
Dear MY World Partner, We are delighted to announce the Call for Nominations for the 2014 MY World Partner Recognition Awards. This year $)A !/ s awards aim to symbolically recognise the critical contribution of partners to the success of MY World (based on activities undertaken from September 2013 onward). Awards will be granted to a selection […]
Children International Gives Children and Youth a Say at the UN
“The most important issue for me is equality between men and women.” – Shabag For the first time, the UN is allowing people to have a direct say in shaping a better world – and Children International Is helping young people around the world take advantage of this opportunity Press release and pictures all courtesy Child […]
Youth Diary from Pune, India – By Mr. Aakash Shah, Global Youth Advocate
Today, I would like to talk about the person who changed my dream of working for development on a global level into reality. He is the person tp whom I give all the credit. He has been a strong pillar to support me in my initiatives and has helped me implement them as planned. […]
Deaf Children in Ebolowa, Cameroon Expect MY World Will Bring Change
By Ntiokam Divine, Global Youth Digital Advocate Post 2015 and MY World 2015 and Bernice Atabong from CRTV South Region “The marginalized grassroots are crying that nothing is being done to ameliorate their living conditions,” Father Jude Thaddeus laments as the MY World survey team visits his school to tell him about the survey project. […]