A real sense of community

Luis Diego Oreamuno for the Global Shapers Community blog
http://www.globalshapers.org/news/real-sense-community

Over two years ago, in Geneva, conversations about the need to renew the younger generation of WEF began; more than only renew this generation, to promote local projects in our cities. Soon, with help of community members such as the Young Global Leaders (YGL´S), the community grew in a very short term with more than 200 hubs around the world.

For many, this new initiative, meant a risk, especially opening space and integrating to the dialogue within WEF events to people between 20-30 years old; for others, this represented a clear opportunity with some expected results but most enthusiastic for those that have not yet imagined.

Soon we heard about Shapers in discussion panels or moderating at events like Davos, Tianjin or the regional WEF meetings. After these experiences, it has been easy to identify natural and refreshing exchanges of ideas between iconic leaders and the Global Shapers. I encourage every hub around the world to make their best to ensure that all your members have the opportunity to attend at least one event of the community and of course congratulate those who have been doing it.

Another fundamental aspect has been to gather, in the more diverse way possible, Global Shapers from around the world; this is changing our lives at all, we definitely share the passion and desire to improve the state of the world. As part of this new need to get closer with all this amazing people, is how projects like Shape events became a reality with a great piece of success. Shapers and organizations also have been creating more spaces to interact, for example, San José Hub extended invitations to shapers from Latin America to join us in Barack Obama´s and Mohammad Yunus visit´s to our city.

According to David Aikman, Managing Director, Head of New Champions at WEF, there is a good chance that in the next 5-10 years (since now in many cases), this generation will lead the world from the social, political and business sector, so the chance to meet and generate a friendships based on trust and support between us from now on, is of great value. I couldn´t be more agree with that and I think that the power of the personal interaction is going beyond that so the Global Shapers Community represents for its members an extended family.

Luis Diego Oreamuno

Curator,

Global Shapers San José Hub

@ldiego_oreamuno

www.globalshapers.org

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