N680 Local Community Discussion

what is Local Community Discussion?

Local Community Forums are public online community gathering places where you exchange community information and discuss local issues that matter to you. … At the neighborhood level, “Neighbors Forums” build community and promote collaboration and problem-solving.

where you exchange community information?

Local communities play a key role in nowadays’ globalized and chaotic world. As new generations
(Millenials, Z gen etc.) all around the world feel “global citizens”, there is a special need in re-connecting
with “local”, in order to create a common “Glocal=global & local” concept.
According to Wikipedia, a local community is a group of interacting people sharing an environment. In
human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks and a number of conditions may
be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.
And according to Simon Sinek, a community is a group, a community is a group of people who agree to
grow together.
Why is worth it to really connect and develop local communities, starting to create small positive impact
while contributing to the systemic and global community? How is best way for making it happen and which
are the key elements for it? What’s the role youth play on this? And the role of social entrepreneurs in
order to develop and create wealth within local communities while being global at the same time?
The group started discussions from local collective awareness in order to serve and contribute then
expanded to the “whole”.