Aaron Sherinian... for bigger and better conversation around sustainability and global issues.
By Joey Aguilar/Staff Reporter
A number of media organisations from around the world have attended a two-day meeting in Doha from July 29 to 30 and shared ideas and best practices on how to spark dialogues about global issues.
Dubbed as the 2015 United Nations Foundation (UNF) Global Media Partnership Convening, the event gathered senior editors and media practitioners from different regions to come up with “animate, bigger and better conversations” about the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
“We’ve brought together new media partners that are working together with us and also that are working as organisations to think about new and innovative ways to do story telling,” said Aaron Sherinian, UN Foundation’s vice-president, Communications and Public Relations.
Speaking on the sidelines of the event, he pointed out that the convening is part of their long-term goal which is to help animate a bigger and better conversation around sustainability and global issues that the foundation supports.
At the meeting, UN experts talked about how the 17 SDGs were formulated as compared to the Millennium Development Goals.
Sherinian also cited the important role the Arab region should play in the implementation of the SDGs saying that people in these countries have a long view of the future.
“The region is thinking very much not just about next year or the next five years but the next 50 and a 100 years whether it comes to conversations around sustainable energy or around innovation in technology,” he said.
“It is also interesting that it is happening in Doha because Doha and this region is thinking about the future of communication in the digital era,” Sherinian noted.
Some of the participants who attended the convening include representatives from the Straits Times (Singapore), Al Jazeera, The Los Angeles Times (US), Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), and Thomson Reuters.
