Social Media Q&A - DESA Empowerment Expert Group Meeting

The Division for Social Policy and Development of UNDESA would like to THANK EVERYONE who has shared input and questions on people's empowerment trough Facebook, Twitter and the Survey. THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU! These are the five questions the Division selected and asked to the Experts. Facebook 1) Ammara Shahbaz How can we make people realize that they are empowered? 2)Aileen Serrato Calvario How can we empower people if social services, budget allocation, in developing countries are cut? Twitter 3) Themba Phakathi How best to target, mainstream and 'accelerate' empowerment for the least empowered? Survey 4) Gia Gaspard Taylor from the Network of Rural Women Producers Trinidad and Tobago We learn quite a great deal through the social media,and the internet; however the very poor and rural communities are in most cases without basic amenities, how can they be helped via ICT's? 5)Ghulam Nabi Nizamani (Name of the Organization: Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Asia Pacific Network) Do you think that empowerment should be included in MDGs,in post 2015 agenda,and other UN strategies at all level? This is the List of Experts who participated to the Meeting and answered your questions: * Mr. Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General, Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). * Ms. Daniela Bas, Director, Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD, DESA). * Ambassador Henry L. Mac- Donald, Permanent Representative of. Suriname to the United Nations and Chair of the Third Committee of the 67th session of the General Assembly. * Ambassador Francis Lorenzo, President South-South News. * Mr. Ahmad Alhendawi, Youth Development and Civil Society, Jordan. * Mr. Srinivas Tata, Deputy Director, Regional Commissions New York Office. * Mr. Clem McCartney, Club de Madrid. * Ms. Deepa Narayan, Independent International Poverty, Gender and Development Advisor. * Ms. Dina Tannir, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). * Mr. Jethro Pettit, Institute of Development Studies, UK. * Mr. John Mathiason, Cornell University. * Mr. Jonas Rabinovitch, Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM, DESA). * Ms. Malinka Koparanova, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE). * Mr. Massimiliano La Marca, International Labour Organization (ILO). * Mr. Ming Hwee Chong, NGO Committee for Social Development. * Mr. Norman Uphoff, Cornell University. * Mr. Olympios Katsiaouni, former Interregional Advisor, DESA. * Mr. Patrik Andersson, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). * Ms. Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. * Mr. Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, OXFAM International. * Ms. Rose Aderolli, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Africa (ECA). * Ms. Sarah Cook, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). * Ms. Sharon Brennen-Haylock, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). * Mr. Simone Cecchini, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). * Ms. Staci Alziebler-Perkins, the Conference of NGOs with Consultative relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO). * Ms. Sylvia Beales, HelpAge International. * Ms. Tacko Ndiaye, UN Women. * Ms. Thokozile Ruzvidzo, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Africa (ECA). * Mr. Timo Voipio, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland. * Ms. Zitha Mokomane, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa.