Diving into Projects of the Global Shapers Community (Part 3)
• Rob McLean
• September 16, 2020
• Originally published at DailyRasp.com
Continuing with Part 3 looking at the Global Shapers Community (GSC) projects. If this is your first visit and wish added context, you will find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Now, let’s get into Part 3.
Projects are the lifeblood of GSC Hubs, which may have multiple ongoing projects.
Broadly speaking there are two categories of project:
- Projects developed based on the local context where a Hub is operational and;
- Projects developed and imposed through the Global Shapers Community Foundation (GSCF) and managed by the Global Shapers Team (GST) from the Geneva headquarters of the WEF.
According to the Charter, all GSC activities embody three (3) pillars:
- Interaction
- Insight
- Impact
Outside of the Hub, interactions must include “relevant local or global stakeholders.” This is partly how the GSC along with the WEF creates value relevant at the local, regional and global level. In addition, projects need to align with core objectives of the WEF. Are you picking up a cult vibe?
Members are held to strict timelines. Projects must forward with each member participating in at least one local project and one global activity yearly.
There are many projects ongoing across hundreds of Hubs. Keep in mind; I am barely scratching the surface. The goal here is to look to see if there is among Hubs similar project themes across different cities.
What kinds of projects do Hubs undertake?
Who is the project audience or audiences?
Under the rubric of Civic Participation, the GSC seems to promote civil unrest. Here is their page blurb:
“Organized protests and popular unrest involving a diverse cross-section of society are taking place in all corners of the world. Increasingly, citizens are demanding change and are even influencing decision-making processes through this form of collective action.” Source: https://archive.vn/3unKH
Those words have a pretty strong social-justice ring to them. Mmm. Speaking of social-justice below are Hub projects in several countries. Perhaps there is a theme here.
Los Angeles Project: Ballot View
Los Angeles Hub developed an award-winning app to increase voter turnout in the 2016 US election. The free and non-partisan app allowed voters to preview their state’s local ballot and learn more about candidates in the running.” Source: https://archive.vn/AkhXb
Munich Project: VoteSwiper App
“The VoteSwiper App is a phone application that helps people in their decision making process for the upcoming European Elections 2019, and hence aims to increase voter participation in all 27 European Union member states.” Don’t apps cost money to create and distribute, to encourage your audience to not just download but to use as well. (VoteSwiper.org site: https://archive.vn/zzDbj)
Featuring questions around political, current and election-related topics, users simply answer “Yes” or “No” to around 30 questions before their answers are compared with the position of the running parties. The results show approval ratings for the different parties and where the user sides most. In addition to the user’s individual results, they can view detailed responses from each party to all of the questions asked.
The Munich Hub goal of this project is to help people choose which party they should vote for in the European Parliament elections 2019. By providing easy and fun access to this information, the hub is aiming to raise voter turnout in all participating European Union member countries. The pilot phase has already seen more than 500,000 downloads and active users. Source: https://archive.vn/QEeP3
El Salvador Project:¡Votemos Pues!
“The San Salvador Hub seeks to involve Salvadorans (especially youth) in informed decision-making and to generate awareness of how our political and electoral systems work. In this way, citizens will be able to demand collective, efficient and sustainable public policies. The Let’s Vote Project (that has been consistently implemented since 2014), has carried out different online and offline actions, such as social media advocacy campaigns and informative events in the most concurred and popular malls in San Salvador.
The hub seeks to position the Let’s Vote! project as one of the most important and reliable electoral projects in the country. Success will be measured by the number of citizens the hub is able to reach through various activities.” (Let’s Vote!) Source: https://archive.vn/kAG5O
USA Project: ShapingTheVote
This project is a collaboration between several Hubs: Baltimore Hub Oakland Hub Seattle Hub Miami Hub Orlando Hub Dallas Hub # ShapingTheVote
“In line with the Global Shaper Community’s 2021 Equity & Inclusion Impact Area goal of mobilizing 100,000 young people and diverse populations to become more civically engaged within their communities, we know we have work to do in the United States.” Source: https://archive.vn/YdPwa
Toronto Project: UseYourVote
2019 was a Federal Election year for Canada and the Global Shapers Toronto Hub was eager to get youth engaged in our democracy. This year, the millennial voter demographic was the largest of all age groups and also predicted to be the most disengaged. We knew we had to do something so we worked together to host a 3 part project focused on youth voter engagement titled #UseYourVote. Source: https://archive.vn/VrpoV
Global News ran an article on this event quoting the organizer, “I think as a young person and a future home owner, I’m really concerned about the impacts of flooding in my basement,” Source: https://archive.vn/pl2HW Call me skeptical, but I see this as spinning the event, to give it a grassroots feel. I guess you’d have to look closer at the organizers closer for a hint (but that’s outside this articles focus).
Projects in Germany, El Salvador, Toronto, Los Angeles, and more are intent on getting young people to vote. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) Nevertheless, it is not simply about get people to vote. No, it’s broader than that. Such projects seek to school certain demographics toward outcomes which long-term (e.g. across several election cycles including local, regional, and federal) tilt in favor of objectives favorable to the WEF. For the GSC these project activities fulfill on of their 3 pillars: Impact.
Even for the casual observer there should be no difficulty seeing such thematic focus as anything but grassroots volunteerism. The few examples I’ve included above have Klaus Schwab’s fingerprints all over them. Such organized international programs coordinated as they appear are likely top-down WEF programming straight out of Geneva.
Part 4 to follow. (Categories: Globalism; Technocracy)
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