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"Mashable is excited to announce G-everyone, a 24-hour digital convening that will unite local groups around the world to discuss the pressing issues addressed at the G8 Summit.\nOrganized through Mashable\u2019s Meetup Everywhere platform, G-everyone meetups will take place on the eve of the G8, a forum of the world's eight wealthiest Western countries. The goal of G-everyone is to make the G8 more accessible, and to brainstorm ways to solve the world's most challenging problems.\nG-everyone will provide an open dialogue around the G8\u2019s core themes of \"Open Economies, Open Governments and Open Societies.\" Mashable will crowdsource the best ideas and thoughts from our community via Meetup Everywhere, and report back to the leaders at the G8.\nThe G-everyone conversation will happen during a 24-hour global meetup on Monday, June 10. To organize or attend a meetup, register on Mashable's Meetup Everywhere community. Every group will discuss the same three questions:\n\nHow can innovation stimulate your local\u00A0economy?\nHow can technology make your\u00A0government\u00A0more\u00A0open?\nHow can online communities help build healthier\u00A0societies?\n\nAnswers will be shared through an exciting new community called +SocialGood. Participants can also share feedback via the #Geveryone hashtag on Twitter, Vine and Instagram.\nWe can't wait to hear how you plan to make a difference in your communities and around the world. Make sure to share with us what you accomplish so we can highlight the best ideas on Mashable.\nBONUS: 10 Inspiring Quotes From Mashable's Social Good Summit\n\n\n10 Inspiring Quotes From the Mashable Social Good Summit\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Mira Sorvino\n\u201CMore is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves.\u201D\u2028 \u2014 Mira Sorvino, actress and U.N. goodwill ambassador\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Forest Whitaker\n\u201CWe have to not just open our eyes to what\u2019s going on in other places; we need to open our eyes to what\u2019s going on right in front of us.\u201D\u2028 \u2014Forest Whitaker, artist and UNESCO goodwill ambassador\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Brooke Loughrin\n\u201CWater issues are directly connected to women\u2019s issues. When I was working in India, I met girls who said, 'I\u2019d love to go to school, but I spend four to five hours a day looking for water.'\"\u2028 \u2014 Brooke Loughrin, U.S. youth observer for the United Nations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. John Nesbit\n\u201CNinety percent of the world\u2019s population is covered by a mobile signal. Fifty percent of people in sub-saharan Africa own cellphones \u2014 there\u2019s more on the African continent than in the U.S.\u201D\u2028 \u2014 John Nesbit, CEO of Medic Mobile\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Joe Trippi\n\u201CIf you knew how much information the campaigns had on you, you\u2019d turn off your machines. And I mean that literally.\u201D \u2014 Joe Trippi, political strategist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. Claire Diaz-Ortiz\n\u201CYou always hear the phrase \u2018advocacy starts at home.\u2019 In reality, with all the power we have to connect, it really means at home \u2014 where you\u2019re sitting. It\u2019s about doing what you can from where you are. We\u2019re fortunate to have these tools to let you distill your message to make sure you\u2019re getting out what you want to say and create a call to action.\u201D\u2028 \u2014 Claire Diaz-Ortiz, lead social innovator at Twitter\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. Jimmy Wales\n\u201CThe Internet is allowing for us to really experience people in some of the most distant places in the world \u2014 as other people just like us. So get to know people, seek out bloggers from a country you\u2019re kind of curious about. It\u2019s about building empathy and breaking through to the point of recognizing people as people.\u201D\u2028 \u2014 Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Hillary Clinton\n\"We are living at a moment when anyone can be a diplomat. All you have to do is hit SEND.\" \u2014 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. Todd Park\n\u201CIt\u2019s about turning government into a platform for open innovation. Data by itself is useless. I can\u2019t feed my baby daughter data, as much as I\u2019d love to, because I love data. It\u2019s only useful if you apply it to create an actual public benefit.\u201D\u2028 \u2014 Todd Park, U.S. chief technology officer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. Nicholas Kristof\n\u201COne thing the humanitarian world doesn\u2019t do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.\u201D \u2014 Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage via Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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