The Best of Global X

Victor "Global X" d'Allant
Former Executive Director, Social Edge

Now that Global X is short-listed for the 2009 Webby Awards, he had to watch the 100+ video interviews of social entrepreneurs he taped in the past two years, only to select the very best moments for his demo reel.

Global X had a hard time eliminating the stars he interviewed, but he was tough: neither Muhammad Yunus nor Jimmy Carter nor Bill Drayton made the final cut…

Instead, he kept a valuable piece of advice by Kiva’s Premal Shah, a visually stunning introduction by d-light design’s Sam Goldman, Harsha Moily‘s comments about the role of technology in development, and a moving story by Mumbai-based microfinance expert Urmee Mehta Mankar in which she demonstrates that social entrepreneurship is not charity.

Global X also kept a short segment taped in Dakar where Josephine Nzerem’s daughter plays with her mother’s mobile phone as she talks about passion in social entrepreneurship.

This three-minute demo reel ends with a powerful call for action from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams. Global X can’t help but have tears in his eyes when he watches this compilation –so many great individuals doing fabulous work to build a better planet.

And he can’t help wonder what pair of glasses he will wear when he goes to New York to get his award, as he owns seven pairs of Mikli!