The Future We’ll Make: TEDxChange Flickr Photo Campaign

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TEDxChange: The Future We Make

On September 20, 2010 is TEDxChange, an event co-hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and TED. TEDxChange marks the anniversary of the Millennium Development Goals.

Ten years in, the question remains where do we stand in the work to save and improve lives around the world? And what will the future hold?

The future isn’t fixed. We can all have a hand in making a better world. To coincide with TEDxChange and the tenth anniversary of the Millennium Development Goals, the Gates Foundation is asking you the following question: What is the future we will make?

They want you to help put a personal face to some of the world’s most pressing issues and envision a future where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy and productive life.

To participate, follow these four steps:

Download and print the sign

Personalize the sign with your own message. (Remember: Your sign must relate to one of the Millennium Development Goals to be included.)

Upload your photo to the foundation’s Flickr group.

Join the conversation on our Community Page.

Passion and purpose are important in looking forward and I also believe the role of education for girls globally will continue to impact how developing countries grow and seek to eradicate poverty. That being said, here’s my photo!

What are The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? They are eight international development targets set forth by the United Nations. Adopted by world leaders in the year 2000 and set to be achieved by 2015, the MDGs seek to spur development by improving social and economic conditions in the world’s poorest countries.

The information and graphical content below are used in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme.

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty.

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education.

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women.

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality.

Goal 5: Improve maternal health.

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability.

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development.

  • http://www.unbreakableleo.blogspot.com Nathan Richardson

    We share a goal. Your sign is exactly what I'm going to be working towards during my Fellowship. Great minds think alike.

  • Elizabethyahweh

    This is a great idea! Let's go…

  • Pedro Angco Jr

    Nanoing the Gap…..

  • http://twitter.com/gcheungLA Grace Cheung

    Hi Sloane! I just discovered your blog (from Alltop). This is such a great campaign. I love it :) I'm going to upload my picture tonight!

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  • Oliver Mupila

    Zambian's now must be wise in propportion, not their exprience with the kind of leaders with have had in the past and I think that We as a People have a lot of capacity for Political Violence (as victims) and the leadership ( those in public office). Now we must understand that the past experience that we have had and …what we are going to have between now and October , 2011 is a school where as Zambian's we we are going to lean what big fools we have been for having been made victims of Political Violence by our own brothers and sisters, people that we have given the trust to lead us. Yes as you all may come to know, experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, lesson afterwards.

    As a People we have all the power in our hands , we have had a lot of tests and we have had a lot of lessons and in the year 2011 we are going to have a test to see if we know what we want as a People and as a nation, our experience must be looked at as a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair. For a long, long time we have lost out, we have never had the share of the cake. So , all I want to tell you is that Nothing is a waste of time if you can use the experience wisely. Yes we all know that to some people experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you and I have made while casting our votes in the past years. I think as a People we have be sad for a long time, ( the sadder and the wiser ) we have become, that we came VOTE WISE and VOTE RIGHT. We have ben burnt by the fire that we set up and now we shall be able to put things right, like the English proverb ( A burnt child dreads the fire). “Yes we can forgive, but we must not forget, ” that if we do not STAND UP NOW and SAY NO to POLITICAL VIOLENCE then we are going to be VICTIMS of POLITICAL VIOLENCE till Jesus comes. Let us forgive those who have made us to be VICTIMS and use our vote to make Zambia a better place ten times more. We need to have the freedom of mind, but remember a hungry man is not a free man. Only our individual faith in freedoom can keep us free , that is if we can give our vote to the right leadership. Now we must come to believe that the greatest freedom is to speak out, that is the only thing that can being safety and peace, because we are not fools and the best thing to do is to encourage each other by speaking out. Free speech is to a great people what winds are to the oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of disease and bring new elements of leaders when we stop Political Violence, real democracy and a New Zambia will be bred and peace will keep on. Last Every man has the right to be heard, but no man has the right to strangle democracy with a single set of vocal chords from who are thinking Zambia belongs to them along. Peace !

    Oliver Mupila

    President & CEO

    Zambian International Health Alliance-ZIHA

    http://ziha.bbnow.org