Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

June 17-21, 2024

The 2024 Global Solutions Lab will be entirely online, advanced, and more accessible to more people.

The 2024 Global Solutions Lab will use the brand new problem solving/strategic planning platform— the NewWorld Game — that combines the Lab’s methodology with our unique custom-trained Ai— plus over 100 global statistical databases, a set of 150+ state-of- the-world reports from every UN agency and many international research organizations, and a dozen libraries of global solutions. With your perspective, knowledge, values, and experience the process of developing new, innovative, affordable, regenerative, and immediately implementable strategies for achieving one or more of the UN SDGs will be an easier, faster, more thorough, and creative process. 
AND— the NewWorld Tournament where the best strategy will be awarded a cash prize adds yet another exciting level to the Lab.

NewWorld Tournament

Your Lab solution can be entered in the NewWorld Tournament where it will be eligible for the award of a cash prize that is used to advance your strategy towards implementation in the real world.
Register here.

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The Global Solutions Lab is for developing the means to

“Make the world work for 100% of humanity
in the shortest possible time
through spontaneous cooperation
without ecological offense
or disadvantage of anyone.”

– Buckminster Fuller

Global Solutions Lab 2024

ONLINE— June 17–21, 2024

The 2024 Global Solutions Lab will be the 20th Lab. It is generally focused on making real the above quote of Buckminster Fuller, and specifically, on developing strategic solutions for achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

  • Format: The 2024 the Lab will be on-line and an intense, every day experience. Participants will be expected to be make a substantial time contribution to the work of the Lab. The Lab will use the brand new global problem solving platform for their creative work. This platform will be available to participants after the Lab as well.

  • The Lab focuses on developing strategies and solutions to critical real-world problems that achieve one or more of the UN SDGs. Each participant is part of an international, cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary, and intergenerational Design Team. This collaborative, creative effort culminates in a presentation of the Lab’s work to a group of UN, corporate, philanthropic, academic, and NGO leaders. See previous Lab work here (database) and here (books).

  • Participants will learn a powerful strategic design and planning methodology that they will use to develop their solutions.

  • Tuition: $250. Partial tuition scholarship are available.*

  • Application: The number of participants in the Lab will be limited. The sooner we hear from you the better. Apply here.

    *It is our conviction that no one should be denied access to the Lab for financial reasons. We have a scholarship fund for partial tuition scholarships. These funds are limited and variable according to expenses and donations. You can be a huge help by making a contribution to the Global Solutions Lab Scholarship Fund. You can do that here:

  • Download 2024 Global Solutions Lab flyer here.

  • The Global Solutions Lab was developed by and is conducted by EarthGame, a non-profit research and education NGO officially associated with the United Nations Department of Global Communications.

On-line Lab Participation: What You Will Need:

The Lab has participants from all over the world. Recognizing that different parts of the world don’t all have the same level of telecommunications infrastructure, here is what you will need to participate:

  • Internet connection, with as high speed of a connection as possible.

  • In addition to a good internet connection, you will need a computer or iPad with video and audio capabilities. Also – you will need a relatively quiet location for having group discussions with your team members from around the world.

  • Time commitment. The Lab is a serious time commitment— Participants should plan on at lease 4 to 6 hours per day, starting around 10:00 am (Eastern U.S time), every day (with breaks for meals). Sessions include large group, break-out teams and individual research and development.

If you want to participate
in the 2024 Global Solutions Lab,
apply here.

Questions: info@bigpicturesmallworld.com.

“We are called to be architects of the future,
not its victims.”

—Buckminster Fuller

AI & Sustainable Development Goals
Invitation and Challenge

The powerful quote above encapsulates the ethos of the Global Solutions Lab. As we stand on the brink of technological revolutions that promise to redefine what is possible, it is imperative that we approach AI and other advances as architects, actively shaping our future rather than passively enduring it.

Welcome to the 2024 Global Solutions Lab— where we bring together four unique and powerful platforms in order to develop and implement the new and innovative solutions that the world so desperately needs:
First, you will have access to the expertly crafted NewWorld Game online platform that embodies more than three decades of active problem solving protocol and has been successfully used by thousands of players around the world!
Second, you will have access to the latest AI prompts and tools to help develop and pressure-test your solutions. You will gain hands-on experience using AI as a powerful engine for addressing the UN SDGs.
Third, you will be able to submit your solution to the NewWorld Tournament where it can be awarded a cash prize for use in implementing your solution.
Fourth, and most importantly, you will be working in teams with other inspired HI (human intelligence) from around the world. Your curiosity, passion, knowledge and collaboration will be what ultimately drives solutions for architecting a better world!

 

The 2024 Global Solutions Lab is where you will be the architects of the future, using the NewWorld Game AI-assisted platform and toolkit for developing solutions to the UN SDGs. This call to harness the combined capabilities of human ingenuity and artificial intelligence to forge solutions for our world’s most pressing issues is what the world needs— now.

If you are interested in learning how to use AI to solve real-world problems— by actually using AI to solve complex, interconnected, critical global and local problems— then participate in the upcoming Global Solutions Lab. Here you will learn what questions, what prompts, are the most effective in eliciting the answers needed for developing, and implementing, solutions. You will learn what AI is really good for, where human intelligence is essential, and how the synergy of both leads to creative, sustainable, affordable solutions for climate change, poverty, food, energy, education, health and any problem situation about which you are passionately concerned.

 

What it is

More about the Lab

Students and young professionals from around the world* will be coming to the 2024 Lab. They will be briefed by UN experts (from WHO, the UN Development Program, UN Environmental Program, UNESCO, and other UN agencies),** develop comprehensive strategies for dealing with critical global problems and paths for reaching the UN’s SDGs — and then present their work at the UN.

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Who, When, Where

Students and teachers from colleges and universities as well as young professionals from around the world.

June 17–21, 2024

This year’s Global Solutions Lab will be online.

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Who has participated

*Previous Lab participants have come from Spain, France, Germany, England, Ireland, Poland, Georgia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Sudan, South Sudan, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, DR Congo, Haiti, Canada, Mexico, Honduras, Venezuela, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Turkey, and all over the U.S.

**UN presenters include