Earth Institute’s Jeffrey Sachs, UN’s Nitin Desai to Speak at Global Forum

So, one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World (Time Magazine, in both 2004 and 2005), Jeffrey Sachs, will beam into the We Media Global Forum via satellite from New York. Isn’t technology wonderful? Prof. Sachs is director of both The Earth Institute at Columbia University and the UN Millennium Project.

Also new to the program is Nitin Desai, who is special assistant to the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Mr. Desai will speak about media and the informed society.

Hmm, let’s see…

In one place, we’ll have a VIP rep of the UN, plus the likes of Tom Glocer and Mark Thompson (Reuters and BBC), Dave Sifry (Technorati), Scott Heiferman (Meetup.com), Wahdah Khanfar (Al Jazeera), Joanna Shields (Google), Graham Ferguson (Vodafone) and Jeff Jarvis (buzzmachine.com). Should be interesting…