Monday, March 29, 2010

GLOBAL PULSE 2010

Worth Checking Out & Participating

About Global Pulse 2010

Global Pulse 2010 is a 3-day, online collaboration event that will bring together socially-engaged participants and organizations from around the world. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is sponsoring the event, in partnership with the U.S. Departments of State, Education, Commerce, and Health and Human Services.

As the name implies, Global Pulse 2010 will take the pulse of thousands of participants on key issues facing communities around the world. The goals of the event are to connect and engage participants who are champions for the same challenges to help build new, or strengthen existing relationships, and to inform U.S. foreign assistance and diplomatic strategies on major themes emerge from the course of conversation.

During Global Pulse 2010 participants will choose from a list of challenges facing the global community within the fields of science and technology, economic development, and human development. Each challenge will have a number of recognized thought leaders and subject matter experts who will help to facilitate the discussion.

As a truly unique event Global Pulse 2010 will enable participants to influence a global conversation that helps to build partnerships across borders, strengthen understanding among cultures, and unite the human race in an effort to create innovative solutions to the most pressing social issues of our time.



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