What is it?

S4G, the un-mediated, not moderated social platform

Have you ever thought you have something to “express” with a social dimension but never had the opportunity to do it?

Then S4G is what you are looking for:

  • Open, unrestricted and easy to use
  • Three mediums to choose from: TEXT, VIDEO, PHOTO
  • A way to express your ideas, reflections and expertise, on social issues and broader development and society at large
  • You do not need to be an expert but just passionate about what you share

Latest Sharings

25 April, 2024

Belgium’s experiment in permanent forms of deliberative democracy (IDEA)

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The Brussels Region of Belgium has followed in the footsteps of the small German-speaking Community in establishing a permanent procedure to engage randomly selected citizens in policy making alongside parliamentarians, who will sit together in deliberative committees. The process creates significant opportunities for popular influence on policy.

Asia Gender Network (AVPN)

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The first pan-Asia Network that moves capital to causes that empower women and girls in Asia to drive gender equality across the region.

The Mittal Institute’s 2021 Seed for Change Winners

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With a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship in India and Pakistan, the Mittal Institute’s annual Seed for Change (SFC) competition aims to award Harvard students with grant prizes for interdisciplinary student projects that positively impact societal, economic, and environmental issues.

Global Education Summit: Financing GPE 2021-2025 (July 28 and 29, 2021) by GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION

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The Global Education Summit: Financing GPE 2021-2025 will be a key moment for the global community to come together and support quality education for all children. A centerpiece of the summit will be the opportunity for leaders to make 5-year pledges to support GPE's work to help transform education systems in up to 90 countries and territories

Disability Innovation Strategy 2021 – 2024 Global Disability Innovation Hub

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GDI Hub is a research and practice centre driving disability innovation for a fairer world. Operational in over 35 countries, we work with more than 70 partners, delivering projects across a portfolio of £50m. GDI Hub has reached 12 million people since its launch in 2016 by developing bold approaches, building innovative partnerships, and creating ecosystems to accelerate change.

Online Course on Civil Resistance and Nonviolent Conflict

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Centre for Social Change (CSC) calls for a four weeklong online course on Civil Resistance and Nonviolent Conflict. It offers youth, students, practitioners, and scholars a great opportunity to learn about and reflect upon ways to achieve social change nonviolently. This course intends to enhance a general knowledge about the dynamics and effectiveness of civil resistance and provides opportunity

The Handbook to Guide the Reception and Integration of Resettled Refugees (UNHCR)

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The Handbook to Guide the Reception and Integration of Resettled Refugees grew from a seed planted in 2001 at the International Conference on the Reception and Integration of Resettled Refugees (ICRIRR) hosted by the Government of Sweden. Several hundred government officials, UNHCR andNGO representatives and resettled refugees gathered for intensive discussions on how to help resettled refugee

Carmelo Anthony nominated with inaugural Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion Award

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On Anthony's behalf, $100,000 will be donated to the Portland Art Museum’s Black Arts and Experiences Initiative

Do Not Revive Coal: Planned Asia coal plants a danger to Paris (Carbon Tracker)

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Renewables continue to increase their cost competitiveness versus coal, with 27% of the global coal fleet unprofitable today. Do Not Revive Coal is the third annual report in Carbon Tracker’s Powering Down Coal series. The report finds around 70% of the global fleet relies to some degree on policy support and would likely be unprofitable in the absence of market distortions.

FROM THE EU: EU Asylum Agency, Council presidency and European Parliament reach provisional agreement

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The Council presidency and European Parliament representatives reached a provisional agreement on an EU asylum agency regulation.The regulation establishing the EU asylum agency aims to improve the application of asylum policy within the EU, by turning the current European asylum support office (EASO) into a fully-fledged agency.

What is intersectionality? The Center for Intersectional Justice

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The Center for Intersectional Justice is an independent nonprofit organization based in Berlin dedicated to advancing equality and justice for all by combating intersecting forms of structural inequality and discrimination in Europe. We envision a world free of systemic oppression in which each individual has access to resources, voice, power and safety.

Generation Equality Forum in Paris Starts today

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The Generation Equality Forum is a landmark event to accelerate progress on gender equality. The Forum kicked off in Mexico City in March 2021 and will culminate in Paris from 30 June to 2 July 2021, launching a series of concrete, ambitious and transformative actions to achieve immediate and irreversible progress towards gender equality.

New report calls for transformative action for racial justice

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet has released a report calling on Member States to adopt a “transformative agenda” to uproot systemic racism.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the NBA's new Social Justice Champion award: Finalists announced

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Announced in May, the NBA announced the finalists of the first batch of the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champions.

COMMON AGRICULTURAL REFORM (EU): PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT

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The Portuguese presidency of the Council has reached a provisional agreement with the European Parliament on the common agricultural policy (CAP) reform for 2023-2027. The deal paves the way for a simpler, fairer and greener CAP that will provide a sustainable future for European farmers.

Access to justice for children’s environmental rights (CRIN)

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Children and young people have been at the forefront of environmental activism in recent years, from protesting to pressing their governments to tackle the climate crisis, to bringing legal challenges against those who have polluted the environment. This isn’t just a question of protecting a planet they will inherit, but fighting for their rights today.

Generation Equality Forum: Paris

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The Generation Equality Forum in Paris, a milestone global event to advance action and investment for gender equality, will be held from 30 June to 2 July 2021. Heads of State and Government, international organizations, civil society, private sector, and youth organizations will gather to launch the Global Acceleration Plan for Gender Equality, announce concrete commitments..

THE GLOBAL STATE OF DEMOCRACY 2019 Addressing the Ills, Reviving the Promise (IDEA)

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Democracy is under threat and its promise needs revival. The value, viability and future of democracy are more contested now than ever before in modern history. While the past four decades have seen a remarkable expansion of democracy throughout all regions of the world, recent years have been marked by declines in the fabric of both older and younger democracies.

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