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World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21(WCID) reminds and encourages people to use creativity in problem solving to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

The resolution was presented to the United Nations General Assembly by Ambassador Inga Rhonda King, Permanent Representative to the United Nations from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, on April 27, 2017.

History
World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21 began in 2001 as a way to give people time and reason to generate new ideas, make new decisions, take new actions and achieve new outcomes to make the world a better place and to make their place in the world better too. The day was born as a result of Canadian creativity expert, Marci Segal, seeing a headline in the National Post on May 25, 2001 that read, "Canada in Creativity Crisis: Study" referring to a debate between artists and scientists about who between the two is more creative. Segal believed a better use of people's time would be to use their creativity rather than debate who has more or less of it.

The first celebrations took place in 2002 in a handful of countries leading to representation in more than 50 nations around the world.

In 2004 the day was expanded to a week, beginning April 15 which is Leonardo da Vinci's birthday.

Celebrations
World Creativity and Innovation Day is like Mother's Day in a number of ways Individuals, families, communities, schools, business and other organizations, teams, non-government agencies, government organizations each create activities to enable people to use their creative capacity to make a difference in their lives and the lives of others. Examples include: creative thinking tools transfer and practice, activities that engage people in new and different ways, awards and recognition for innovations, challenges to apply new perspectives to sustaining problems. With the advent of the UN International Day of Observance status, focus for WCID includes specific attention paid to using creativity (new ideas, new decisions, new actions, new outcomes) to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
 * No one owns it, WCID belongs to everyone
 * Each celebrates it in their own way, relevant to their context
 * Participation is voluntary without fee; no monies are collected by a central agency