On Monday, the latest results from the My World survey add another dimension to that discussion.
The My World survey asked people all around the world to rank a set of priority issues.
He launched the Freedom in the World survey, and served on the Council for a Community of Democracies.
Over the past year, more than a million people have taken part in national consultations, the online My World survey, face-to-face interviews and thematic meetings.
A state-of-the-art (world) survey Art biennales have proliferated at such a rate that in the remaining four months of this year you could visit one somewhere in the world, from Kobe to Kiev, every three days.
In the My World survey, one of the top three priorities – in the world as a whole, for both men and women, for people of all ages, and in all types of country – is "an honest and responsive government".
The artist named Gego, who is the subject of a small, out-of-this-world survey at the Drawing Center in SoHo, was born Gertrud Goldschmidt in Hamburg, Germany, in 1912.
A good education, better healthcare and honest, responsive governments emerged as the top three priorities in the My World survey, which has received more than 800,000 responses so far.
This time the UN is holding thematic and national consultations, supplemented by a My World survey that has so far drawn responses from more than 200,000 people, with employment emerging as a priority.
We still have the best research universities on the planet – every world survey puts Harvard, Berkeley and Stanford at the top – and we still have companies like Apple and Google that no one else on earth can come up with.
