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Our global system is evolving from the vertically integrated empires of the 19th century, through the horizontally interdependent nations of the 20th century, into a global network civilization in the 21st century.
We are becoming this global network civilization because we are literally building it.
Meanwhile, our global infrastructure spending is projected to rise to nine trillion dollars per year within the coming decade.
Spending so much more on building the foundations of global society rather than on the tools to destroy it can have profound consequences.
So imagine if our global diplomatic institutions, such as the G20, were to base their membership on economic size rather than national representation.
Cities want to be part of global value chains.
They want to be part of this global division of labor.
They know that their cities belong as much to the global network civilization as to their home countries.
And yet, our global stock of financial assets has never been larger, approaching 300 trillion dollars.
We are the cells and vessels pulsing through these global connectivity networks.
We are the global network civilization, and this is our map.
And there's a name for people like Davinia: global citizens.
A global citizen is someone who self-identifies first and foremost not as a member of a state, a tribe or a nation, but as a member of the human race, and someone who is prepared to act on that belief, to tackle our world's greatest challenges.
Our work is focused on finding, supporting and activating global citizens.
I want to make the case to you today that the world's future depends on global citizens.
They are ultimately global issues, and they can ultimately only be solved by global citizens demanding global solutions from their leaders.
We need to confront these challenges on a global scale and in a systemic way.
And it needed to happen everywhere; otherwise, every individual government would have this built-in excuse mechanism that they couldn't possibly carry the burden of global action alone.
And there was only one name for it: Global Citizen.
And research data tells us that of the total population who even care about global issues, only 18 percent have done anything about it.
And as we did so, we discovered something really thrilling, that when you make global citizenship your mission, you suddenly find yourself with some extraordinary allies.
See, extreme poverty isn't the only issue that's fundamentally global.
But how did we actually go about recruiting and engaging those global citizens?
We launched the Global Citizen Festival in the heart of New York City in Central Park, and we persuaded some of the world's biggest artists to participate.
You had to take action on behalf of a global cause, and only once you'd done that could you earn enough points to qualify.
See, we don't need to create global citizens from nothing.
And this is where I believe we can learn a lot from Davinia, who started taking action as a global citizen back in 2012.
Her actions, alongside 142,000 other global citizens', led the US government to double their investment into Global Partnership for Education.
See, when thousands of global citizens find inspiration from each other, it's amazing to see their collective power.
Global citizens like Davinia helped persuade the World Bank to boost their investment into water and sanitation.
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