Mashable is proud to be working with the United Nations Foundation and 92nd Street Y to host the first ever UN Week Digital Media Lounge this week. Today’s lineup includes a panel lead by Matthew Bishop, U.S. business editor of The Economist, Chrysula Winegar of Work Life Balance and a discussion on alternative energy sources.
The conversation about the world’s biggest challenges no longer belongs to a small set of voices — it is a global conversation with an increasingly online pulse. As the world’s leaders convene in New York, the UN Week Digital Media Lounge offers a dedicated venue that is completely wired and accessible to today’s top online voices and up-and-coming bloggers. The Lounge brings the conversations from this historic UN Summit out of the halls of the UN and into the 92nd Street Y, where digital media will deliver it to the world. A comprehensive agenda will give bloggers the chance to interact with thought leaders on the most important global issues.
Friday Agenda
9:00 a.m. – Lounge Opens
9:30 -10:00 a.m. – Oxfam’s “breakfast with the world”
Live via Skype, Oxfam brings us experts from around the globe to discuss the reality of issues on the ground. Get answers for your community from people who live and know the situation firsthand.
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Changing the world: one online mother at a time
Women and children have been the biggest topic of discussion during UN Week, so what do mothers themselves think? Hear from renowned mommy bloggers on how mothers are reaching across boundaries, around the world to spread the word about our biggest global issues.
- Chrysula Winegar, Work Life Balance
- Emily Kahn, The Motherhood
12:00 -12:30 p.m. – Wrap-up with The Economist: UN Week report card
Wrapping up the Digital Media Lounge, U.S. Business Editor and World Economic Forum
Young Leader Matthew Bishop, hosts a panel of leaders each offering their assessment of how much was really achieved in UN Week 2010.
- Matthew Bishop, U.S. business editor, The Economist
- Robb Skinner, associate director, UN Foundation
- Charles Abugre Akelyira, regional director for Africa, UN Millennium Campaign
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. – Beyond Oil: Blueprint for an Energy Revolution
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the worst environmental disaster in US history, with long-term impacts we’ve yet to understand. One thing is clear: we need to stop investing in a broken energy economy and kick start a clean energy revolution. In this briefing we’ll hear from Greenpeace experts at the front lines of the campaign for a clean and safe future.
- Kert Davies, Greenpeace USA research director (live via Video Skype on board the Arctic Sunrise in the Gulf of Mexico)
- Jo Billups, longtime Gulf resident from Lillian, Alabama
- Sven Teske, scientist and lead author of the Energy [R]evolution report
4:00 p.m. – Lounge Closes
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