1GOAL

Today, 1GOAL an education campaign backed by over 100 charities and education organisations including ActionAid, Save the Children and Oxfam welcomed Emeritus Professor Archbishop Desmond Tutu as the co-chair of the 1GOAL campaign. He joins Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan and President of FIFA Sepp Blatter in leading the campaign as it enters its critical countdown period for the World Cup.

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Thank you, Loïc, for that kind introduction. Coming from France’s chief executive blogger, that’s high praise indeed!

(Office of Her Majesty – Press Department – Barcelona) - During a working visit to Barcelona, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, on Monday, met with CEOs from different mobile operators around the world, to rally support for the 1GOAL global education campaign.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department- Paris)  As social networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, increasingly bridge the gap between the digital and offline worlds, the question Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah asked the audience at Le Web, Thursday, is whether the real time web can bring real world change.

· 1GOAL launches biggest ever mobile phone campaign for education
· Queen Rania, Shakira, Michael Essien and GSMA unite world’s mobile companies boosting campaign to give every child the right to an education

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Queen Rania to France 24: " When you unleash the potential of girls then you really create a tidal wave of benefits that cascade throughout society"

I’m here to ask you to join one team and help us reach one goal.  

One goal:  To change the lives of children through education for all. 

And I’m honored to be introduced by a champion who won the Golden Shoe.  

Now that’s one, I don’t have!  But, seriously, I think it’s great to see stilettos and cleats lining up together… in support of a golden chance to make a lasting difference for the world. 

Thank you very much, Rob; it feels good to be introduced by “the most influential man in telecoms” today. Like you, I’m thrilled about the promise of the premier league partnership of GSMA and 1GOAL, and I’ll be talking about that too, a bit later in my remarks.

But first, let me say how honored I am to be part of such a dynamic conference: as dynamic in scale and expertise… as it is in vision and innovation.

Enabling over 3 billion connections, and growing at a rate of over 1000 subscribers per minute, it’s no wonder that GSMA is the mobile industry’s leading institution.

Shania Twain (ST): Hello I’m Shania Twain. You’re listening to a special Friday edition of The Current. Around the world there are seventy two million children who don’t have access to education, And now FIFA, the international governing body of soccer has teamed up with the Global Campaign for Education to try to change that. The result is the 1Goal campaign and the idea is to make sure that every single child in the world is able to go to school. It’s a lofty goal but the campaign has a powerful backer.

Queen Rania of Jordan is using social media to promote her charitable work, meet her subjects and chat to her children. All she wants to do now is get her fridge on Twitter.