68th President of General Assembly’s High-Level Stock-taking Event – a participatory approach
“Our work must remain open and transparent so that we hear the voices of all” -Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General September 11, 2014, NEW YORK Blog by Caya Johnson, Global Youth Advocate The President of the General Assembly’s High-Level Stock-Taking event on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, held on the 11th […]
People’s Voices on Accountability and the Post-2015 Agenda
In his speech during the Interactive Dialogue: “Elements for a Monitoring and Accountability Framework for the Post-2015 Development Agenda”, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon commended member states for their commitment to determining the goals and means of financing the next sustainable development agenda. However, he cautioned them on the need for results based goals which […]
UN Secretary-General listens to 1 million voices from MY World
People around the world call for better education, healthcare, honest and responsive government and jobs. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented today a new report “A Million Voices: The World We Want”. The report summarizes the findings from public consultations and surveys, that engaged more than 1.3 million people in all 193 UN Member States since […]
MY World, Your Data
Recently in New York, data gurus and global development experts gathered together for a special MY World + UN Global Pulse event to explore possible ways of utilizing the MY World data set. To date, more than 645,000 people from 194 countries have cast their vote and provided incredibly useful demographic information – age, gender, […]
Summary of the latest MY World results for the High-Level Panel meeting in New York
By May 10th 2013, the MY World survey had mobilized nearly 530,000 participants in 194 countries to vote for their most important priorities. Over half of these votes have been collected offline, using paper and pen. Just over one third have come through the MY World website, and around eight per cent have come through […]
Priorities for the global development agenda shaped by unprecedented public outreach effort
PRESS RELEASE New York, 21 March 2013 – The United Nations presented today the first findings from an unprecedented global conversation through which people from all over the world have been invited to help Member States shape the future development agenda that will build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) after their target date at […]