Simon Anholt: Which country does the most good for the world?
Simon Anholt: Dünyaya en çok katkısı olan ülke hangisi?
After 20 years working with the presidents and prime ministers of 54 countries, Simon Anholt has a plan to make the world work better. Full bio
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the Millennium Development Goals,
way that those laws are made
solution of global problems,
each other from country to country,
things tend not to change.
a lot of time complaining
sometimes to look outwards.
think about other countries
the governments that I advise
primarily because they're rich,
because they're successful,
they're technologically advanced.
of very serious and clever people,
tell you which one comes top.
before we drift off to sleep,
your international obligations
lower than Ireland's lowest score.
notice about the top 10 there
very, very important thing.
of the lower-lying countries.
the big developing countries,
to be on goodcountry.org,
level of the individual datasets.
and our companies behave,
thinking about these things.
wanted to live in a happy country,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Simon Anholt - Policy advisorAfter 20 years working with the presidents and prime ministers of 54 countries, Simon Anholt has a plan to make the world work better.
Why you should listen
For 20 years, Simon Anholt has worked with the presidents, prime ministers and governments of more than fifty nations, devising strategies and policies to help them to engage more imaginatively and productively with the international community.
In 2014, impatient to do better, Anholt founded the Good Country, a project aimed at helping countries work together to tackle global challenges like climate change, poverty, migration and terrorism, by mobilizing "the only superpower left on the planet: global public opinion."
According to The Independent, Anholt's aim is to change the way countries, cities and companies work "...by us all encouraging their leaders to think about the global impact of their actions, rather than cut-throat self-interest."
Measurement of Good Country progress is done through Anholt's Good Country Index, the only survey to rank countries according to their contribution to humanity and the planet rather than their domestic performance. According to The Guardian, "He has built his career in part as a formidable cruncher of data." Since 2005, his research into global perceptions of nations and cities has collected and analyzed over 300 billion data points.
In 2016, Anholt launched the Global Vote, a project that enables anybody in the world to vote in other countries' elections, choosing the candidate who is likely to do most for humanity and the planet: three months later over 100,000 people from 130 countries took part in the Global Vote on the US Presidential Election. The Global Vote now covers an election somewhere in the world almost every month.
Anholt is an Honorary Professor of Political Science and the author of five books about countries, cultures and globalisation. He is the founder and Editor Emeritus of a leading academic journal focused on public diplomacy and perceptions of places.
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