7 Billion Actionswww.7billionactions.org

A Global Movement for All HumanityWays To Engage Through Social Media

On 31 October 2011The World’s Population Will Reach

7,000,000,000

UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is leading an innovative campaign —7 Billion Actions—to build awareness around the

opportunities and challenges of a world of seven billion people.

How it all started…

New Media Boot Camp at Columbia UniversityWe invited 40 new media pioneers to a two-day brainstorm

They came up with a creative and engaging campaign concept

Check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ1GGvycvbM&feature=player_embedded

Meet the boot camp pioneers from……UNFPA, Wikipedia, Facebook, Foursquare, SAP, Columbia University, IBM, Shakira

Foundation, Webgrrls, Idealist, the World Bank, National Geographic, UN Global Pulse, BlogTalkRadio & other organizations…

That’s how the movement was born

• 7 Billion Actions - A Global Movement for All Humanity• Everyone has an opportunity and a responsibility to make a world of 7

billion a better place for all of us. • We are collecting stories of individuals and organizations making a

difference in their communities – and globally. • We are looking for stories from these 7 key areas:

1. Poverty and inequality;2. Women and girls empowerment;3. Reproductive health and rights;4. Young people;5. Ageing population;6. Environment;7. Urbanization.

• Stories that can inspire other to take action!

7 Billion ActionsJoin the movement!

Here’s how…

Like 7 Billion Actions on Facebookwww.facebook.com/7billionactions

Share your story via Facebookwww.facebook.com/7billionactions

(This page is available in 20 languages – more to come)

We are collecting stories of individuals and organizations making a difference in their communities – and globally.

Follow @7BillionActions on Twitter & share story via #7billion

www.twitter.com/7billionanactions

Share your story through musicCreate your own version and lyrics of the song “United”

www.7billionactions.org/music

Share your story!Share your story through film

Join the short film competition “One in 7 Billion” www.7billionactions.org/film

Listen to our Podcast “7 Billion” We have partnered with BlogTalkRadio

The worlds largest social radio network

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/7billionactions

Follow our campaign blog 7 Billion ActionsRead about organizations & individuals for a better world

& submit a story http://7billionactions.tumblr.com

Engage with young story-tellers on FacebookWrite comments under these images from India and China

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.257747854269403.67053.196517287059127&type=3

Images by Adrian Fisk, iSpeakGlobal

Read & re-blog the 7 Billion Actions series by Global Voices http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/special/7-billion-actions

• Global Voices is a community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world.

• 7 Billion Actions and Global Voices has partnered on a series on blog-posts.

• Bloggers for this series are based in Malawi, Egypt, Lebanon, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Brazil, and many more countries. Between them, they speak more than a dozen languages.

• Blogs will be translated into the five UN languages as well as several local languages.

Feel free to edit the 7 Billion Actions Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Billion_Actions

Check out our crowd sourced logo

• Crowdspring is a community of 101,336 designers and writers.

• The 7 Billion Actions logo was crowdsourced.

• The winning logo design is now the official campaign logo

• 7 Billion Actions has received 1258 design concepts from 169 designers

Soon, you will also be able to check in to a World at 7 Billion Thanks to our friends at Foursquare (stay tuned!)

7 Billion Actions BloggersOur events are open to bloggers

Send email to Ida Jeng Christensen, ichristensen@unfpa to register

We also blog about a world at 7 billion(an example from the Huffington Post)