• About Social MDGs

    The most popular way to communicate and share information online is through social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. Now citizens around the world have the ability to rally around an issue and collectively make a difference. After the tragic earthquake in Haiti, citizens organized online to quickly raise millions of dollars. In Iran, citizens uploaded videos and used Twitter to communicate to the world during the controversial presidential election. We wanted to harness the power of citizen-generated social media to spread awareness about the eight Millennium Development Goals created by the United Nations. Social MDGs collects the most recent content from several popular social media websites, so students looking for information about a specific issue can quickly find a story or video and share it with their friends. We hope this site will allow citizens the ability to spread information faster and inspire them to get involved in achieving the MDGs.