Will this high level forum help save the world? I don’t know for sure but it is a step in the right direction.

The GP Connect! Social media team comprised of Atlas Corps Fellow and IT Director Phil Mlanda and Becky Gitonga a consultant with GP Connect! were in attendance for the Busan conference in Seoul, Korea hosting a twitter fall and sharing provocative questions. Where does GP Connect! fill in during the conference? We hope to become players in the development arena. I mean that our model, the Community Driven Development model will hopefully help the aid community focus funding in a sustainable and effective manner. Also in attendance to the conference was the President of Service for Peace Dr. Charles Phillips and Atlas Corps Fellow Varun Sood the Director of Strategy and Operations. One of the major agenda’s of the conference is that major donor countries increase transparency in order to meet the UN’s millennium goals.

Busan is one of the final steps to completing the 2015-millennium goals. How will the development community get there? HLF4 is the incubator that will give birth to new ideas and partnerships to achieve living standards for the poorest people in the world. The north south model of developed countries has given way to developing countries joining the arena.

Developing countries, civil society and private donors are all contributors to lifting communities out of poverty. The goal of the Busan conference is to emphasize transparent engagement, real world solutions and the involvement of new partners to bring the promise of 2015.

For more information about the high-level forum, follow the discussions on twitter hashtags: #gpckorea11 & #HLF4

By Josephine Ona