Dear Galaxy Community,
Over the previous yr, we’ve all been reminded of know-how’s important function in our lives. It has saved us related in these troublesome occasions and enabled us to work and study, regardless of the place we’re on the earth. But past that, it has saved us hopeful. Technology has impressed us and enabled us to do good by serving as a robust device able to bringing communities collectively to drive constructive change.
I wish to highlight a bunch of younger individuals who, within the midst of a world pandemic, have actually embodied this spirit of innovation. They’re discovering artistic methods to harness know-how to defy limitations and construct a greater world at a time once we urgently must make progress.
In celebration of the United Nations’ 75th Anniversary, Samsung and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) expanded our partnership to launch Generation17, an initiative to amplify the voices of younger leaders who’re serving to to attain the Global Goals for Sustainable Development.
Our Generation17 Young Leaders are dedicated activists, every with the robust will and unwavering willpower to construct a greater future for all by 2030. Spanning Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, they’re already making unimaginable strides on urgent international challenges.
A Generation Driven by Purpose
Now greater than ever, we should elevate the voice of younger generations and unlock their collective energy to advance the Global Goals. Our future is determined by their ingenuity, dedication and optimism. We want their abiding sense of goal.
Millennials and Gen Z are, by and huge, fluent in know-how. More than two-thirds of their technology have a smartphone.1 They’re additionally pure changemakers. More than 86% imagine they will make a distinction.2 They are passionate activists who actually search to make constructive change in every part they do and are decided to create a greater world for all. And as a result of they’ve grown up in a largely borderless, on-line world, Samsung goals to amplify their spirit of world neighborhood. Both generations are visionary, however they want sources that assist them understand their aspirations and assist society proceed to develop and evolve.
That’s why Samsung and the UNDP are supporting the subsequent technology. We’re propelling younger individuals to do good by giving them the know-how to create change and the means to make their voices heard. Samsung is proudly utilizing our international attain to assist these younger leaders inform their tales and advance their missions, whereas the UNDP is leveraging its difficulty experience and grassroots operations to provide younger leaders with the mandatory abilities and sources they should make a significant influence.
After first partnering with the UNDP over two years in the past to remodel the Galaxy ecosystem into a robust enabler for collective activism, this marks an essential subsequent step in our ongoing journey in direction of serving to the world obtain the Global Goals in lower than 10 years.
Taking Action, Together
The journey to attain the Global Goals will not be simple. It requires a dedicated and coordinated effort throughout the private and non-private sectors, in addition to teams and people. As Generation17 demonstrates, we are able to all enact huge change if we faucet our ardour and willpower collectively. And the Galaxy neighborhood has the chance to embrace our goal and assist form a greater future.
Today, we’re welcoming much more younger leaders to our Generation17 neighborhood, a bunch that when once more reveals the ability of know-how to make these important connections. From Daniel Calarco’s quest for improved equality in Brazil; Nadine Khaouli’s inspiring disaster response in Lebanon; Yurii Romashko’s use of know-how to energy data-based determination making; and to Yejin Choi’s AI-based method to youngsters’s wellbeing in South Korea – it’s solely the start.
These younger innovators are an integral a part of the Samsung Galaxy neighborhood,…
