Global Conversation on the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda - Video

This video explains the origin of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the year 2000 and the ways in which people are interacting to share opinions on the next set of post-2015 goals as the deadline for the first set, the MDGs, approaches. "United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls the engagement of more than 750,000 people from 193 countries in setting a new global development agenda 'a historic effort for a historic policy-making process.' To ensure a comprehensive and inclusive consultative process, the United Nations launched ...national and thematic dialogues, complemented by a global crowdsourcing effort using digital media and mobile phone technology as well as paper ballots, that have enabled more than 750,000 people from 194 countries so far to take part in setting the next generation of anti-poverty goals."

For example, Clarisse Iribagiza of HeHe Limited has created a system for 20,000 girls to send text messages about their opinions on the post-2015 agenda. Eighty-seven countries have held town-hall-style meetings to discuss the agenda.