World Leaders Listen to Speech Composed by the World
When environmental activist Severn Cullis-Suzuk took to the stage at the recent Rio+Social conference on creating sustainable solutions for our planet’s future, she delivered a moving and powerful six-minute speech, which was crowdsourced for the event.
The speech was created through the “6-Minute Speech Project”, a platform for global dialogue around the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20.
Rio+Social was held on the eve of the historic Rio+20 Summit and was a huge global, online conversation among corporate and digital media leaders, government representatives, celebrities, bloggers and people passionate about the environment. Anyone could take part in the conversation no matter where they were in the world.
Speech Concept
The concept for the 6-Minute Speech came from a speech given at the 1992 Earth Summit in which Cullis-Suzuki, who was then 12 years old expressed her concerns and hopes for the future of the Earth and future generations.
Her speech at Rio+Social was written by members of the public who submitted videos via social media that spoke of their visions of a more sustainable future. From these, select videos were compiled to form the globally crowdsourced speech.
To kick-start the conversations interested parties were challenged with the following questions:
- How should world leaders address the world’s biggest sustainability challenges?
- How do we define ‘The Future We Want’?
- What do you have to say?
There was a lot of buzz in and around the Rio conferences as people were enthused about the power of social media to:
a) engage people all over the world to innovate for a sustainable future
b) bring pressure on global and corporate leaders to address some of the world’s most challenging issues.
Reader Comments
Brilliant speech !!!
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Posted by Ranjit on July 4, 2012
Ms Cullis-Suzuki is one persistent lady who shows us the way to a better future. If only the world leaders, lawmakers and corporate giants listen to the voice of the world spoken through her lips.
Posted by lucien grey on July 1, 2012
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