Empodera.ORG: Collective intelligence platform to achieve the 2030 Agenda and to enhance citizen participation for the SDGs
Fundación Cibervoluntarios
Session 196
Promoting effective Alliances to implement Digital Skills education programs at local level
Empodera.ORG: Collective intelligence platform to achieve the 2030 Agenda and to enhance citizen participation for the SDGs. Empodera.org is a collective intelligence platform that makes it easier for citizens to create challenges and concrete actions to achieve the SDGs, which provides an itinerary to carry out the full cycle of social innovation, from knowledge of the SDGs, identification needs, through the provision of creative solutions, to the design and implementation of the best initiatives that can generate social impact. The digital platform and methodology are recognized by the United Nations through UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Professional Training and Research), with whom Fundación Cibervoluntarios signed a framework agreement in September 2018 to promote the values of the Agenda 2030. Its director and Undersecretary General of the United Nations, Nikhil Seth, with whom we signed the agreement, is one of the outstanding fathers of the 2030 Agenda, and its objective is for it to be transversal and reach all citizens, especially young people. Hence its recognition to Empodora.org it is very important. In 2021, the platform has been used by more than 1,500 people, more than 300 initiatives have been generated, and 100 organizations and entities have joined ato this multi stakeholder ecosystem. This impact highlights robustness, efficiency and effectiveness of Empodera.org. Fundacion Cibervoluntarios has been a pioneer in the development of this digital tool at European level, testing it 2018 with educational centers and Universities across Spain, as well as NGOs and public institutions, From the collected evaluations show the need to transmit youth information on the importance and raise awareness on the SDGs.
• Success stories on how to promote the open, inclusive and transparent participation of citizens as an active part in achieving the SDGs.
• How to promote, through technological tools, a more efficient participation in the face of the existing needs in the 2030 Agenda. Not only to generate business but, more importantly, to generate social transformation and turn needs into opportunities in a sustainable and ethical manner.
• How to strengthen local development and the skills of Civil Society Institutions from a local and global perspective for the development of the 2030 Agenda.
• To identify and develop new ways of monitoring the SDGs, based on technologies such as Big Data or Blockchain, in conjunction with existing ones.
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 activiley with international partners in the creation od 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 puting 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.
Inès has more than 10 years of experience in applying anthropology to different projects, processes and topics: a.o. Social innovation, UX development, I+D+I, public policies related to inmigration, tourism, and gender-based violence, cooperation and development, social networks and youth, and, fake news.
Her challenge in all of them is to involve the person and the society through all the project phases. In Fundación Cibervoluntarios, she defines and carries out pilots and conducts qualitative research providing triggers to develop (online) tools and innovative improvements of internal and external processes.
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C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
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C3. Access to information and knowledge
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C4. Capacity building
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C6. Enabling environment
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C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
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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
