The social media site that made fast friends with millions has suffered a popular backlash in recent weeks. People across the world have pledged to #deletefacebook in anger and outrage at how the site protects users’ data.

Concern and action over unscrupulous data mining practices is entirely valid, but we have to be careful not to dismantle social media platforms that have, in fact, continued to improve the lives of millions.

With a click of a button, we were live. Despite the anticlimactic feeling, I was proud of what that small mouse-click meant for my team. The Voices of Nature Environmental Education Curriculum had, in that moment, been shared with 30 people across the country of Paraguay, each one of whom had decided to dedicate time and energy to furthering our mission.

Recent tensions in US politics have resulted in a renewed focus on how the economic decline of the nation’s central industrial heartlands might have left a section of the population feeling forgotten and left behind.

Jackson, Michigan, lies at the heart of this region, known as the Rust Belt, and One Young World Ambassador Angela Edward, who lives and was raised in the city, is working to improve its children’s life opportunities and their sense of connection with the wider world.

Some teachers need to go back to being taught.

Their predecessors in the American public school system might have been able to rely on trusted traditional teaching methods but today’s educators must work in a wholly different classroom environment with students who find many lessons boring and irrelevant.

This is the iPhone generation. It has direct access to information. Teachers face a constant battle to try and maintain their interest in the learning process and ensure they have learning models that keep students responsive and engaged.

Dressed by Burberry, with whom she has been collaborating for six months, the One Young World Ambassador recently returned from Davos where she spoke to delegates at the World Economic Forum on the importance of inclusivity in business. That followed a Ted Talk about retail design last year which has registered more than 1.23m views.

Women in Afghanistan face renewed and terrifying threats to their human rights as a bloody resurgence by the Taliban has seen the militant group assert control over large parts of the country. The BBC reports that Taliban fighters are openly active in 70 per cent of Afghanistan. 

When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001 its fundamentalist regime was associated with sexism and misogyny, with women denied education and forced to wear the burqa in public at all times.