Conversations for a Better World is a youth community for raising global issues and finding solutions. Conversations is all about ‘the power of we’ as well a forum to identify solutions, progress and forward-looking ideas for a better world. The idea is to get people talking about how we can co-create a better world. If we want to tackle the global challenges of our time, we need a lot of people to start talking.

Blog policy

Before writing a blog post, please familiarize yourself with the kind of stories we post and our topics. We strongly recommend that you read the official blog policy for Conversations for a Better World to see what kind of content we will publish.

Contribute

Each month there will be a new question for discussion, moderated by a Guest Editor.

Join the Conversation

1. Become a Contributor. With a few clicks, you can be part of Conversations for a Better World. The microphone is yours. All you need to do is to register. You can submit an idea, a solution to a global challenge, research-findings, a Power Point presentation, comments, or get creative and share a personal story, photo essay, a video or a podcast.
2. Become a Guest Editor. Your organization can also become a Guest Editor. Guest Editors get to moderate the weekly discussion and kick-start the discussion with a blog-post (or more if desired) that will be featured at the front page. Guest Editors also get to live-blog and chat with our community during the week (if desired).

Editorial calendar

Contact us to get the editorial calendar for 2011, where you can see up-coming conversation questions. All topics will remain open for comments and contributions. There are no deadlines or cut-off dates, as content is updated regularly.

How to create a good blog-post

Want to create a topnotch blog-post? Read the document How to create a good blog-post.

Our comment policy

You’ll find our comment policy here.

Sponsors

Conversations for a Better World is sponsored by the Media and Communications Branch of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. Unless otherwise attributed, the views expressed herein are solely those of the author/bloggers and do not reflect the views of UNFPA. Links from Conversations to other blogs and websites should not be constructed as an endorsement of the content of those sites.

Contact

Alvaro Serrano: serrano [AT] unfpa [DOT] org

Ida Jeng Christensen: ichristensen [AT] unfpa [DOT] org