Building Global Community

Summary

“Bringing us all together as a global community is a project bigger than any one organization or company, but Facebook can help contribute to answering these five important questions:

• How do we help people build supportive communities that strengthen traditional institutions in a world where membership in these institutions is declining?
• How do we help people build a safe community that prevents harm, helps during crises and rebuilds afterwards in a world where anyone across the world can affect us?
• How do we help people build an informed community that exposes us to new ideas and builds common understanding in a world where every person has a voice?
• How do we help people build a civically-engaged community in a world where participation in voting sometimes includes less than half our population?
• How do we help people build an inclusive community that reflects our collective values and common humanity from local to global levels, spanning cultures, nations and regions in a world with few examples of global communities?

My hope is that more of us will commit our energy to building the long term social infrastructure to bring humanity together. The answers to these questions won’t all come from Facebook, but I believe we can play a role.”