Ideathon for the SDGs : Using the Collective Intelligence Platform empoderaORG
Fundación Cibervoluntarios
Session 343
Collective innovation supported by the United Nations to create citizen initiatives and actions for the Sustainable Development Goals
Objective of the practice Ideathon for the SDG:
Train and provide tools to achieve the 2030 Agenda through dynamic, participatory and innovative events. With Ideathon for the SDGs, we bring the platform closer to social entities, organizations, companies, and universities for the acquisition of digital skills by the SDGs. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
1. Provide the participants in the workshop with digital and certified tools to work on the Agenda2030 and the SDGs in an online and collaborative way
2. Help identify and select a specific SDG, investigate the situation at the local level and create and develop initiatives and actions to act concretely with solutions to generate global impact
3. Develop critical and purposeful thinking, which allows you to be creative and innovate to transform your environment from local to global
4. Show success stories from previous "ideathons" Made in Spain
Empodera.ORG, the online platform to be used and showcased, is a collective intelligence ecosystem that helps create concrete initiatives and actions to involve citizens in the achievement of the SDGs. Institutions, companies and civil society have in Empodera.ORG an online and collaborative tool, to generate social innovation processes, in a simple and useful way, to achieve the 2030 Agenda. The objective is to jointly build a more ethical, inclusive and sustainable with the commitment of citizenship. It is an initiative of the Fundación Cibervoluntarios, which has the support of the United Nations through an agreement signed in September 2018, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the 2030 Agenda.
This initiative is based on a procedure created by university experts and a tested methodology that is certified by the Fundación Cibervoluntarios. The implementation of the Ideatt
hones by the SDGs has been adapted since 2020, taking into account the situation generated by COVID-19, with constant human and technological support online to create initiatives, coordinate actions, generate engagement, facilitate communication, measure the impact and guarantee the sustainability of everything that is generated before, during and after online events. Providing a comprehensive online training, monitoring and certification platform.
Angel Sola is Director of International Programs at Cibervoluntarios Foundation, fostering alliances with other organizations to promote the social use of technology to foster citizen's rights, opportunities and participation. Angel Coordinates the communication area of Horizon 2020 European projects and managing branding and creative concept of projects from the point of view of social action, NGOs and Digital Social Innovation. He works actively with international partners in the creation of Digital Solutions at National and European level always focusing on how technology can change people lives for good through Digital Skills Training.
"For me is critical to promote Technology to achieve a more inclusive society, and our work focuses in putting citizenship in the center of Social Innovation"
Angel Sola gives talks at international conferences as Social Innovation expert related to citizen participation, Next Generation Internet, The impact of technology in our society, inclusion and technological volunteering. He has participated as speaker in events such as 4YFN at the MWC.
He's got a Degree in Advertising and Public Relations and a Masters Degree in Institutional and Corporative Communication. Having specialized afterwards y Social Media and Digital Marketing.
With a background from organizing large events and managing International Relations and PR departments of different companies and associations, she is currently in charge or managing and coordinating European projects focused on ICTs for social inclusion and innovation at Fundación Cibervoluntarios, position that involves fundraising, project writing and presentation, project coordination (Erasmus+) and follow-up. She has participated in various international conferences, congresses, roundtables and seminars representing the Foundation.
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C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
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C4. Capacity building
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C5. Building confidence and security in use of ICTs
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C6. Enabling environment
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C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
The objectives set out in the 2030 Agenda focus on five major axes of critical importance for humanity and the planet, which are called the “5 P's”: people, planet, prosperity, peace and alliances. Empodera.org was born to involve citizens in an innovative way in the process so that they provide a real vision of the needs through collaboration between civil society with an ecosystem of organizations, entities, companies and the academic sector. Providing both beneficiaries and Stakeholders with collaborative tools to achieve this.
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Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
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Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
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Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
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Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
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Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
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Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
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Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
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Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
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Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
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Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
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Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
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Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
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Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
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Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
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Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
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Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
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Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
With the events Ideathons for the SGDs, Empodera.org are building an ecosystem of citizen innovation alive and in constant transformation, with the direct collaboration of key stakeholders such as universities, NGOs, institutions and companies, to achieve the Objectives set by the 2030 agenda and involve, in a tested way, Civil Society in the process. Empodera.org It has the direct support of UNITAR.
Enabling factors
• Network collaboration between the different agents involved becomes a key factor for the success and development of all activities.
• The use of an open, tested and approved innovation methodology, which facilitates the generation of ideas, debate and collaborative, sustainable and impactful actions.
Sustainability and replicability of the Ideathons for te SDGs
Empodera.org offers the possibility of building Agenda 2030 within the reach of citizens in a simple, sustainable and replicable way: Involving local communities directly in initiatives and concrete actions related to the SDGs. With an online methodology that can be replicated in different languages and the possibility of carrying out activities remotely with digital training.
Empodera.org guarantees the acquisition and certification of digital entrepreneurship and innovation skills for all the people involved. Thus forming a civil society much more interested in building, co-creating and acting on specific needs related to the Sustainable Development Goals within its environment: real, scalable and replicable solutions from the local to the global.
