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A panel of musicians, marketing executives and media professionals joined the UN Foundation's Executive Director of Global Partnerships Elizabeth Gore to explore how musicians and other celebrities can use social media to drive support for social issues.

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It has been 10 years since the Millennial Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted by United Nations member states with the aim of eradicating extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics and developing a global partnership for development by 2015. At the same time, the world has experienced the maturation of the information web, and more recently, the meteoric rise of the social web.