Jun 2
Today, I have joined 1, 700 young people from over 100 countries across the World to "rework the World:" hosted by the Talleberg Foundation and YES Inc. The profile of participants is 50:50 men to women, almost half under the age of 35 years.
The conference has been officially open by the Mayor of Leksand, a town 3 hours drive North of Stockholm.
The plan, to discuss showcase 150 projects in aspects of Land, Cities, People, Energy and Water being the key enterprises that this five day meeting will focus on. These projects are trans-formative and have created employment and have empowered young people. In so doing, move from rhetoric, change minds and result in more than resolve - result in action.
Carl Mossfeldt, Executive Vice President of the Talleberg Foundation surmises thus: The World and humanity today is more closely bound together, bound to and by one fragile blue planet. the jobs of tomorrow must necessarily be different from the jobs of the past. In addition and on the back of the economic crunch development assistance budgets are cut, corporate organizations laying off thousands of workers. The jobs of tomorrow need to be financed different from the jobs of the past. This meeting will take measures to further bind jobs together and create different types of jobs.(Carl Mossfeldt)
Youth empowerment and employment is a a global agenda. Poonam Ahluwalla, President of the Youth Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (YES) Inc USA, says that it is the power of individual dreams that can address this agenda. Individuals, old and young, must have a vision, see a future and take the opportunity to (re)write the future and rework the World.
In the next few days, I will join global changemakers in celebrating success, assessing challenges and understand how community enterprises have addressed challenging times, and in a few years create millions of jobs for young people across the World.
Join me live on
www.reworktheworld.org
