{"id":3747,"date":"2017-04-18T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T09:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2017-04-18T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T09:46:07","slug":"special-announcement-united-nations-recognizes-world-creativity-and-innovation-day-april-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2017\/04\/18\/special-announcement-united-nations-recognizes-world-creativity-and-innovation-day-april-21\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: United Nations recognizes World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><strong>On April 20, 2017,\u00a0 Rhonda King, Permanent Representative\/Ambassador to the United Nations from St. Vincent and the Grenadines will read a UN resolution on the floor of the General Assembly to include World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21, among the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/sections\/observances\/international-days\/index.html\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">UN Days of Observance<\/span><\/u><\/a> which includes Earth Day, Water Day, World Humanitarian Day, and the like.<a href=\"https:\/\/worldcreativity.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/wcidhorizontal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7616 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/worldcreativity.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/wcidhorizontal.png?w=300&amp;h=132\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In her 10-minute speech, Ms. King will emphasize the importance of using creativity to meet the 2030 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/sustainable-development-goals\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">UN Sustainable Development Goals:<\/span><\/u><\/a> 17 Goals to Transform the World<\/p>\n<p>Friends, I urge you to do a few things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Review the <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/sustainable-development-goals\/\"><u><strong><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">UN Sustainable Development Goals<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">, <\/span><\/u><\/a>and choose one to creatively champion (even in one small way) with your family, friends, clients and colleagues this year and every year forward; in the coming months <a href=\"https:\/\/worldcreativity.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/wcidvert.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7615 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/worldcreativity.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/wcidvert.png?w=100&amp;h=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>we will be collecting your stories so keep a record, and stay tuned!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gather with others<\/strong> to Watch Permanent Representative I. Rhonda King deliver her speech on Thursday, April 20, 2017, at 10:00 Eastern Time on <a href=\"http:\/\/webtv.un.org\/live\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">UNWebTv<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate!<\/strong> on April 21st; the UN is sanctioning using creativity in problem-solving to transform the world.<\/li>\n<li><strong>List your celebration<\/strong> (it\u2019s free!) <a href=\"https:\/\/wciw.org\/wciw-2017\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">here<\/span><\/u><\/a> for others to see.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 20, 2017,\u00a0 Rhonda King, Permanent Representative\/Ambassador to the United Nations from St. Vincent and the Grenadines will read a UN resolution on the floor of the General Assembly to include World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21, among the UN Days of Observance which includes Earth Day, Water Day, World Humanitarian Day, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2017\/04\/18\/special-announcement-united-nations-recognizes-world-creativity-and-innovation-day-april-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: United Nations recognizes World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[345133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunities-and-news-for"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3748,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}