2009 MDG Awards Presentation

Where the whole world takes the stage.......United Nations General Assembly Hall

New York City

From the Office of:The UN MDG Awards Committee

On September 12, 2007, Sheikha Haya Al Khalifa (2nd from right); President of the 61st session of the General Assembly, along with Amb. Zina Andrianarivelo-Razafy of Madagascar; Amb. Francis Lorenzo of the Dominican Republic; and Grammy Awards producer, Nile Rodgers along with the MDG Award designer William Ho (far left), joined together at the UN for a press conference to announce plans for a United Nations MDGs Awards Festival to be held as an annual focus in the world calendar.

The objective To create public understanding of the Millennium Development Goals and their importance to our global community, and to galvanize support for their achievement by sharing what has been accomplished and what needs to be accomplishedThe venue The most famous stage on earth.....the United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York CityThe challenge To remind all peoples and nations - that this is ‘our’ world and ‘our’ future - and that positive change demands that each of us feels empowered to become architects of the world in which we wish to live

UN Millennium Development Goals Awards

Introducing the Awards

www.un-mdgawards.org

To engage the eyes and ears of the world in a momentous annual event which will continue to grow in impact and in global reach - and inspire a planetary conversation about the biggest issues facing humankind.

Our challenge is to encourage the world to engage with the Millennium Development Goals and in so doing begin rewarding the real efforts and

sacrifices of individuals, nations and organizations which have the most impact

on bettering our world.

The entertainment event will be twinned with a ‘live’ and interactive consensus forum which will act as a catalyst for engaging the world via social-networking in an ongoing dialogue surrounding the importance of reaching the Goals target date of 2015.

The MDGs Awards must become the most important awards ceremony on earth.


The Mission


8 Millennium Awards 1 Award Per MDG Category will be given to an outstanding project, individual,

organization or nation which has impacted the most in the respective areas 1 Lifetime Award 1 Award will be given to a remarkable individual which has impacted the world in raising planetary consciousness


The AwardsCategories

poverty& hunger

childmortality

universaleducation

maternalhealth

genderequality

diseaseeradication

environmentalsustainability

globaldevelopment

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The AwardsCeremony

Filmed for a global international syndicated broadcast at the UN General Assembly Hall, the inaugural show will rally the world toward a 7-year countdown on 2015. The annual global focus event will act as the planetary catalyst to raising awareness about the MDGs. The Show will be attended by UN Missions from all member states, celebrities, Goodwill Ambassadors and Messengers of Peace, along with internation-al luminaries from all walks of life. A lifetime achievement MDG-Award will be given to a global luminary of international standing and renown.

The red-carpet event will consist of live music entertainment, cultural exposition and will engender a positive and highly charged sense of global unity surrounding the challenges set out by the Millennium Development Goals. Presenters will formally announce the first full Awards date and host-nation. It will also heavily promote

the global democratic highway across the world wide web via the dedicated portal: MDG-NETWORK.COM which will invite worldwide nominations, votes and both social and organizational networking around the Millennium Development Goals.


Each year the MDG Awards event will be coupled with a round table forum featuring some of the world’s greatest thinkers. The Global Impact Forum will be ‘hard-wired’ to the world-wide-web as an interactive platform for engendering a consensual highway of democracy amongst people of the world. The MDG-NETWORK.COM is launching as the world’s portal for this challenge.

The Global Impact Forum will concentrate and focus expressly on the Millennium Development Goals - our greatest planetary initiative.

Participants will include Nobel Laureates, UN leaders, Heads-of-State and celebrated luminaries - some in person and others through virtual connectivity.

On an annual basis, further participation will grow to include schools, universities, NGOs and ministries - all invited in via the web-interaction to discuss the critical issues facing humanity and our planet and focus on solutions.


The Global Conversation


Introducing an innova-tive social-networking portal: the Humani-Sphere. This engine plans to open up a ‘democratic highway’ on the world-wide-web, linking the con-sensual voice of reason between individuals across all national, cul-tural and social divides around the globe.

As a unique social networking platform it will unite people

Each year the Global Impact Forum will link a dedicated sitting of the Nobel Peace Laureates with United Nations leaders and other international luminaries in the EcoSoc Chamber at the United Nations in New York City. The purpose of the Forum will be to stimulate the planetary conversation around the Millennium Development Goals.


Awakening the World

Global Impact Forum

Inaugural


The MDG Awards will be a major platform for spotlighting and showcasing the ongoinghumanitarian efforts of some of our most celebrated international stars. We will be

featuring the campaigns and field-trips of these celebrity Ambassadors and Messengers

of Peace. Many of them will feature in our growing web-campaign - drawing attention to our world’s critical issues, encouraging participation and posing solutions. Look out for them at the MDG Awards event! Some of these distinguished figures who are actively in-volved in the push for a better world are: Angeline Jolie ‘UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador’, Michael Douglas ‘UN Messenger of Peace’ , Geri Halliwell ‘UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador’, George Clooney ‘UN Ambassador of Peace’ and Nicole Kidman ‘UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador’. (Follow the MDG Awards website for celebrity campaign updates)


The Stars Link-in


Introducing a universal networking portal MDG NETWORK.COM. This engine plans to open up a ‘global democratic highway’ on the world-wide-web, linking the consensual voice of humanity committed to meeting the Millennium Development Goals and bringing about a better world for all.

As a unique interactive networking platform it will unite people and organiza-tions of the world from all nations - through a unique web environment. The unified platform will evolve as an open-source repository of knowledge, wisdom

and solutions and is intended as an oracle for people of the world.

It is currently under first-phase development and will launch in September 2008.

We look forward to further developing this portal with our growing family of partner NGOs and corporate alliances from year to year.


The Democratic Highway


Executive Director Executive ProducerManaging DirectorCommittee ChairVice-ChairMusic DirectorDirector: UN Mission RelationsDirector of Community RelationsEcoSoc Relations - AfricaDirector:Global Impact Forum

Moderator: Global Impact Forum

Interfaith Advisor

Nobel Peace Summit LiaisonExternal RelationsPublic RelationsWEB-CAMpaign Direction

Michael JacobsonSacha StoneHeidi Walters H.E. Amb. LorenzoH.E. Amb. Zina AndrianariveloNile RodgersH.E. Amb. Robert Tachie-MensonMr. Domingo Lorenzo H. E. Amb. Antonio Pedro Monteiro LimaSacha Adams Stone Jonathan Glenn-Granoff

Gary L. Krupp KC*SG OStJRune HersvikBremley LyngdohPhil & Company, New YorkKim Kindersley


Executive Direction


Production & Media Executive ProducerInternational Broadcast Producer

Awards Ceremony Event ProducerBroadcast Direction ControlMusic DirectorExternal RelationsCorporate RelationsInternational Talent

Technical DirectorWebcast & I.T. Liaison Team

HUMANITAD

Sacha Adams StoneHal UplingerChris WangroLouis HorvitzNile RodgersBremley Lyngdoh Richard Swift & Jude Smith Rachele (London)Ciro OrsiniMichael McLees Zen Player & Marius Milcher

Production & Direction credits include: !e Academy Awards (current), !e Grammys, ‘Live-Aid’, ‘Net-Aid’, ‘Sport-Aid’, !e Kennedy Center Honors, !e Millennium Telecast, !e Emmy Awards, !e Great Wall of China Concert, !e Superbowl, Pavarotti in the Park, !e Popes Visit to NYC 2008, !e Presidents Summit on Americas Future, UN-Aid Commemoration at the General Assembly Hall etc...


Executive Production


End of DocumentCONTACTS Executive Direction: Michael Jacobson [email protected] Communications: Heidi Walters [email protected] Executive Production: Sacha Stone [email protected] External Relations: Bremley Lyngdoh [email protected] Corporate Relations: Richard Swift [email protected] Diplomatic Affairs: Amb. Francis Lorenzo [email protected]


Launching in September 2008.....a unique unified interactive platform incorporating state-of-the-art video conferencing, telecommunications as well as individual and organizational

networking.......offering wisdom, knowledge sharing and problem solving via a dedicated cyber-universe.....

Uniting people, organizations and nations of the world

on a global democratic highway.....

2009 MDG Awards Presentation

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