Seventy-five million children worldwide are out of school. Educating every one of them would result in 7 million less cases of HIV-AIDS in the next decade.
 Queen Rania’s speech today at LeWeb went beyond statistics.
She believes that “digitalising ourselves has heightened our instinct to be selfless”. Because of her active presence on Twitter and Facebook, she is often called the “monarch with a mission” .
She had two questions this morning: Can the real-time web bring real-time change? Can it tackle some of the big challenges facing the global community (poverty, education, disease, etc)?
The time has come to move from virtual activism to real action. That’s the purpose of the 1GOAL initiative, a project Queen Rania co-founded together with the Global Campaign for Education, in partnership with FIFA.
 1GOAL will use the energy and tools of the interactive web to collect 30 million signatures by the end of next year’s World Cup in South Africa. These will then be used to push world leaders to act and make education for all a reality.
Queen Rania has asked bloggers to support 1GOAL by dedicating their sites for one day to the initiative. She is asking for ideas that can be twittered or direct-messaged to @QueenRania.
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