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Live 8, a large, international series of benefit concerts staged in 2005. A benefit concert or charity concert is a type of musical benefit performance (e.g., concert, show, or gala) featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis.
The Programme provided a platform for open dialogue and the exchange of new ideas, designed to help reimagine the global economy; place equality, universal respect and human dignity at the centre of human progress; and instill a sense of responsibility to live in harmony and balance with the natural world. [10]
The Better World Campaign works closely with the United Nations Association of the United States (UNA-USA)—together forming the largest grassroots network of UN supporters in the world—to inform, inspire and mobilize Americans to support the principles and vital work of the United Nations and to strengthen the United Nations system.
YouTube Live was a 2008 event streamed live on the Internet from San Francisco and Tokyo. It was launched November 22–23, 2008. It was hosted by a variety of YouTube celebrities, including The Black Eyed Peas rapper will.i.am, Tom Dickson of Will It Blend, Michael Buckley, The Happy Tree Friends, Fred, Smosh, Esmée Denters, Bo Burnham and singer Katy Perry among others. [1]
Impakt Festival 2015 took place from 28 October- 1 November 2015, under the title The Future of History (in a World Well Documented). It offered reflections and new ideas on the future of history and on the future of the future , within the themes of ´The Better You´, ´Colossal Data´ and ´The Memory of Technology´.
VRTO (Virtual Reality Toronto) was founded in 2015 by Keram Malicki-Sánchez as a Meetup group dedicated to virtual reality in Toronto.In June 2016, VRTO launched the VRTO Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference & Expo, a professional event focused on exploring arts, culture, and science through immersive technologies.
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group.
Build Back Better World (B3W) was an initiative undertaken by the G7. Launched on June 12, 2021, it would provide an alternative to China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for infrastructure development of low- and middle-income countries. [1] Ultimately, B3W investment was not detailed beyond the program's general principles.