Jamie Drummond

Anti-poverty activist

Jamie Drummond co-founded the advocacy organization ONE, whose central themes are ending extreme poverty and fighting the AIDS pandemic.

Why you should listen

ONE (whose co-founders include rock star Bono) advocates for aid, trade, debt cancellation, investment and governance reform to help the citizens of emerging countries drive and determine their own destiny. Right now, the group's focus is the UN's Millennium Development Goals, eight benchmarks for health, justice and well-being announced in 2000 and targeted to be achieved in 2015. ONE is working to accelerate attention on the MDGs in the last four years of the challenge.

Jamie Drummond’s TED talk

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Jamie Drummond

Let's crowdsource the world's goals

Posted Jul 2012

More news and ideas from Jamie Drummond

Global Issues

Crowdsourcing the New Millennium Development Goals: Jamie Drummond at TEDGlobal2012

June 26, 2012

Photo: Ryan Lash Remember Y2K? Jamie Drummond starts by taking us back to the most anticipated year in human history: 2000. “Remember that? Y2k, the dotcom bubble… the deep-down inchoate yearning that our millennium moment should mean more than a two and some zeros.” Incredibly, he says, our leaders agreed, and as a result produced […]