Global Shapers Community - Presentation
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The Global Shapers Community is a network of exceptional young people between 20-30 years old who lead hubs in major cities around the world. The hubs undertake projects to positively impact their local communities and provide opportunities for Shapers to collaborate globally. Shapers have already demonstrated leadership and entrepreneurship. The World Economic Forum supports the Global Shapers Community by providing access to Forum events, leaders, and insights to further the Shapers' positive impact.
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- 1. Global Shapers Community An introduction
- 2. What is the Global Shapers Community? The Global Shapers Community is a network of hubs founded and led by young people who are exceptional in their potential, their achievements and their drive to make a contribution to their communities. 1
- 3. What is the Global Shapers Community? The Global Shapers Community is: ¡ª united by a common desire to channel the members¡¯ tremendous energy and enthusiasm into building a more peaceful and inclusive world. ¡ª diverse in demographics, geographical areas, social backgrounds and sectors The Global Shapers Community ¡ª provides youth with a global platform to shape the future, integrating the personal, community and global dimension. ¡ª catalyses and enhances, individually and collectively, fresh ideas and entrepreneurial solutions to the world¡¯s most pressing challenges. ¡ª Provides the shapers with the opportunity to get involved in crossmentoring with the communities of the World Economic Forum
- 4. Why the Global Shapers? ¡°We are becoming increasingly aware that solutions to our global challenges must purposefully engage youth, at all levels ¨C locally, regionally, nationally and globally. This generation has the passion, dynamism and entrepreneurial spirit to shape the future.¡± Professor Klaus Schwab World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman 1
- 5. Why the Global Shapers? ¡ª 50% of the world¡¯s population is under the age of 27, the majority of whom live in urban areas ¡ª the millennial generation consider themselves as ¡°active agents of change¡± rather than passive bystanders. In a recent study ¡ª 92% agree that the world must change; ¡ª 84% consider it their duty to drive this change ¡ª almost 82% believe they have the power to make it happen ¡ª this generation is increasingly self-empowered and thanks to information and technology has catalysed tremendous opportunities for interaction and collaboration
- 6. Why the World Economic Forum? The World Economic Forum has successfully established a history of engaging young leaders to positively and proactively impact the global agenda.
- 7. What is the World Economic Forum? ¡ª The World Economic Forum is: ¡ª an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. ¡ª not-for-profit foundation, tied to no political, partisan or national interests. ¡ª The World Economic Forum engages its members and constituents into responsible and responsive global citizenship, integrating four pillars into a unique value proposition: ¡ª Communities ¡ª Interaction ¡ª Insight ¡ª Impact
- 8. What is the World Economic Forum? ¡ª The World Economic Forum is the world¡¯s foremost multistakeholder community, engaging leaders from business (members) and non-business (constituents). Constituents ¡ª Governments and Political Leaders ¡ª Labour Leaders and NGO Leaders ¡ª Global Agenda Councils ¡ª Global Issues Group ¡ª Media Leaders ¡ª Young Global Leaders ¡ª Social Entrepreneurs ¡ª Global Shapers ¡ª Cultural and Spiritual Leaders ¡ª Women Leaders Members ¡ª International Business Council ¡ª Strategic Partners ¡ª Industry Partners ¡ª Foundation Members ¡ª Global Growth Companies ¡ª Technology Pioneers
- 9. Why the World Economic Forum? ¡ª The World Economic Forum is uniquely positioned to provide Shapers with the knowledge and insights that engender a better understanding of the global, regional and industry agendas. ¡ª The World Economic Forum will help the Global Shapers achieve their objectives by: ¡ª Establishing a privileged interaction with some of the existing Forum communities, such as the Young Global Leaders, the Social Entrepreneurs and the Technology Pioneers ¡ª Providing access to all its other communities - the top leaders from politics, business, civil society, media, science, arts and culture, faith - with the objective to provide a maximum of possibilities for interaction and mutual mentorship. ¡ª Selected Shapers will be asked to attend and actively participate in some of the World Economic Forum Annual Meetings and Regional Summits (e.g. as speakers in panels, as discussion facilitators, etc)
- 10. Who are the Global Shapers? Young extraordinary individuals with great potential for future leadership roles in society. Between 20 and 30 years of age, they represent all walks of life and share a spirit of entrepreneurship in the global public interest.
- 11. Who are the Global Shapers? ¡ª between 20 and 30 years of age at the time of nomination ¡ª from all walks of life and socio-economic backgrounds ¡ª highly committed to developing their leadership potential towards serving society ¡ª adhering to the highest standards of moral and intellectual integrity ¡ª possessing unique qualities that set them distinctly apart from the mainstream ¡ª entrepreneurial track record, having already initiated and delivered a major project or founded a company or organization, exceptionally contributing to serving society at large ¡ª ready to deeply engage in the community, reinforcing its mission and objectives and supporting fellow shapers in their individual and professional development
- 12. What do Global Shapers do? Global Shapers undertake activities that generate a positive impact by increasing each individual Shaper¡¯s ability to improve the state of their community and by providing opportunities for Shapers to have local and global impact. The Global Shapers Community is energised by the many interactions generated inside each hub, between hubs and on a global level.
- 13. What do they do? Local Hubs ¡ª Local Hubs are established in major cities around the world ¡ª Joining the Global Shapers Community begins by joining a local hub. Local hubs are committed to local impact and are designed to be local in focus, activity and governance. ¡ª Local Hubs interact and collaborate across borders on global or regional projects, to gain insight and impact the global dimension ¡ª Hubs will provide Shapers with the opportunity to actively develop and contribute to initiatives which focus on future-oriented challenges that this community is uniquely positioned to address ¡ª The local hub must remain impartial and independent and therefore cannot be formed on any political, cultural, racial or religious basis
- 14. What do they do? Local Hubs ¡ª Each local hub is organised in an autonomous way and must develop its own Guidelines ¡ª Each hub develops its own activities/programming, including: ¡ª events that facilitate interaction between members of a hub - strengthen linkages between Shapers and the local community - strengthen linkages between Shapers and the global community (i.e. Social gathering, Hub visits, regional shapers meetings, trainings,¡) ¡ª opportunities to give Shapers the knowledge and the insight that leads to a deeper understanding of global, regional, national and industry issues (i.e meet Young Global Leaders, Social Entrepreneurs, Technology Pioneers,¡) ¡ª undertaking at least one project with local impact each year ¡ª Each hub selects a ? Curator ? to act as the hub Chair. The Curator, together with the ? past ? Curator and the ? next ? Curator, form the Curatorship of each Hub and are responsible for governing its affairs and ensuring that its activities reflect positively on the Global Shapers Community and the World Economic Forum in the spirit of entrepreneurship in the global public interest.
- 15. What do they do? Global Hub ¡ª The Global Hub is the aggregation of interactions between local hubs and focuses on increasing the profile and the exposure of individual Shapers or individual hubs at the global level ¡ª Global Hub activities include: ¡ª Inter-hub activity based on a sub-region, region or issue ¡ª Multi-hub participation in special activities (Intellectual activities, attendance of special events, Local projects with impact in one or more places)And more¡ ¡ª The Global Hub is facilitated by the head office of the Global Shapers Community based in Geneva, Switzerland. Other activities of the Head Office include: ¡ª governance of the Global Shapers Community: mainly via a Board of Trustees which is appointed in a process that includes Global Shapers. ¡ª Annual Curators Meeting: workshops for incoming Curators (leaders) of hubs.
- 16. Online presence ¡°Complementing face-to-face meetings, particular emphasis will be placed on the virtual dimension ¨C enabling shapers to collaborate and learn from each other through the community platform..¡± The Global Hub exists continually in the private virtual network of the Global Shapers Community.
- 17. Online presence: Private Platform ¡ª Private platform: a dedicated, private interaction platform for Shapers, based on off-the-shelf enterprise collaboration software (Tibbr). ¡ª Familiar interface & standard functionalities: ¡ª Directory of Hubs and Issues ¡ª Discussions ¡ª People directory and rich profiles ¡ª Integrated chat ¡ª Mobile Apps available ¡ª Possibility to develop new features
- 19. Where to find Global Shapers Public website: www.weforum.org/globalshapers Twitter: @globalshapers http://twitter.com/GlobalShapers Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GlobalShapers Email contact: globalshapers@weforum.org