NAIS Challenge 20/20

Reading about global challenges, I couldn't help but think about two projects I have come across in the past, and I don't know if they are being utilized anywhere at BB&N:

1) the NAIS Challenge 20/20

2) Global Nomads Group (http://gng.org/)

 

From the NAIS Challenge 20/20 website:

Challenge 20/20 is an Internet-based program that pairs classes at any grade level (K-12) from schools in the U.S. with their counterpart classes in schools in other countries; together, the teams (of two or three schools) find local solutions to one of 20 global problems. 

Below are the 20 global problems outlined in High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them by Jean Francois Rischard. Schools participating in NAIS's Challenge 20/20 program may choose from among these problems. The Challenge 20/20 teams -- who are school groups in the U.S. partnered with school groups in other countries -- work to find local solutions to the global problem.

Sharing our planet: Issues involving the global community

• Global warming
• Biodiversity and ecosystem losses
• Fisheries depletion
• Deforestation
• Water deficits
• Maritime safety and pollution

Sharing our humanity: Issues requiring a global commitment

• Massive step-up in the fight against poverty
• Peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combating terrorism
• Education for all
• Global infectious diseases
• Digital divide
• Natural disaster prevention and mitigation

Sharing our rule book: Issues needing a global regulatory approach

• Reinventing taxation for the twenty-first century
• Biotechnology rules
• Global financial architecture
• Illegal drugs
• Trade, investment, and competition rules
• Intellectual property rights
• E-commerce rules
• International labor and migration rules

-Megan Haddadi

LS Technology