[governance] Global Pulse online event March 29-31

[William Drake]

Hi

I just stumbled across reference to this and thought someone here might be interested.   Quoting from http://www.globalpulse2010.gov/index.html

"Global Pulse 2010
March 29 – 31, 2010
The U.S. Government wants to engage, and partner, with the international community in a meaningful way. Join the conversation! Participate in a unique event and help shape the future.Global Pulse 2010 is a 3-day, online collaboration event, that will bring together individual socially-engaged participants and organizations from around the world. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is sponsoring the Global Pulse 2010, in partnership with the Departments of State, Education, Commerce, and Health and Human Services. As the name implies, the event will take the pulse of thousands of participants on key issues facing communities around the world. Global Pulse 2010 will connect participants who are champions for the same social issues to build new, or strengthen existing relationships, and inform U.S. foreign assistance and diplomatic strategies on major themes and ideas that emerge across the span of the event. Individual discussions will take place within forums and will focus on ten designated topics. Participants can choose to participate in any of the discussion areas that interest them the most."

The tenth discussion topic is relevant to the concerns of governance mavens:

"Pursuing Grand Challenges
Identifying the “grand challenges” of the next decade
What is the new frontier in 21st century development? What is similar to the “Space Race”? What challenges do you or individuals from your country expect to face in the next decade? Over the next decade, what are we going to see as the biggest challenges around internet freedom, access to information, and connectivity with people around the world?"

FYI,

Bill






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William J. Drake  
Senior Associate
Centre for International Governance
Graduate Institute of International and
  Development Studies
Geneva, Switzerland
william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch
www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html
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