Do you believe the world is going to be a better place in the next year or decade? And, how can we achieve this?
For me, UNLEASH proves the potential and process to hit the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030. It means global collaboration, disruptive innovation and sustainable development.
As the world’s problems are getting more complex and interrelated,, we need more collaborative tools to make solutions flow across borders and sectors, and more disruptive changes to challenge existing systems. So this August, UNLEASH made Denmark “a festival of disruptions,” where 1000 global participants went through the innovation process of problem-framing, brainstorming, prototyping, testing and pitching, building up more than 200 ideas in 10 days. Moreover, at present my team and I are still scheduling weekly Skype calls to push ideas forward and seek external resources for pilot and implementation and setting up social entrepreneurship across borders.
Have you ever done something to make our world a better place?
I ask myself. As a business student, every day we talk about business strategy and how to drive economic impact in the private sector. But Unleash, makes me reflect on how negligible the social engagement I contributed before and believe how great the social impact one person can bring to the world. After UNLEASH, I am more determined to become one of those role models, to have my voice heard and influence people towards sustainable development goals.
Though the event was only 10 days, I am sure the ambition and engagement of 1000 global youth to social progress will be life-long. If you want to get involved in this life-changing lab and learn more about UNLEASH ideas, please check the page https://unleash.org/
Liu (River) He
- Chinese
