Crowdsourcing the next global development agenda
Digital media and mobile phone technology enables people from across the world to take part in setting the next generation of MGDs, which have helped to reduce by half the proportion of people living in extreme poverty in the course of the past decade. .
The web platforms in this global conversation, the World We Want 2015website, where people collaboratively develop policy ideas on issues such as inequality, and the My World survey, where people vote for development priorities, are building active user-driven communities which crowdsource development solutions for critical global challenges.
As the world now has more mobile phones than toilets, we are also using both short message service (SMS) and interactive voice response (IVR) to engage the public. For example, in Uganda, in cooperation withU-report, a free, SMS-based citizen-reporting system, we captured the views of more than 17,000 young people in a survey. In India and Rwanda, we have established local language voice recognition systems for people to call in with their views.
Workshops maximise the inclusivity of the process, allowing people who lack access to communication grids to participate.
To date, almost half a million people have taken part in the ongoing global conversation, with three key issues emerging.
First, achieve the MDGs by the end of 2015. Second, the future goals need to address challenges like sustainability, governance, security from violence and jobs. Finally, people want to participate, both in agenda-setting as well as monitoring progress toward the future development goals.
The wealth of data is feeding into the process of shaping the future development agenda that will be put in place after the MDGs target date in 2015.
A new dimension in global policy-making: people all over the world are expressing their concerns about the present and their desires for the future.
As the world now has more mobile phones than toilets, we are also using both short message service (SMS) and interactive voice response (IVR) to engage the public. For example, in Uganda, in cooperation withU-report, a free, SMS-based citizen-reporting system, we captured the views of more than 17,000 young people in a survey. In India and Rwanda, we have established local language voice recognition systems for people to call in with their views.
Workshops maximise the inclusivity of the process, allowing people who lack access to communication grids to participate.
To date, almost half a million people have taken part in the ongoing global conversation, with three key issues emerging.
First, achieve the MDGs by the end of 2015. Second, the future goals need to address challenges like sustainability, governance, security from violence and jobs. Finally, people want to participate, both in agenda-setting as well as monitoring progress toward the future development goals.
The wealth of data is feeding into the process of shaping the future development agenda that will be put in place after the MDGs target date in 2015.
A new dimension in global policy-making: people all over the world are expressing their concerns about the present and their desires for the future.
real-time and real-world intelligence available to negotiators and decision makers, which was unthinkable only a few years ago.
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