There are plenty of gatherings whose purpose is to generate new ideas and do good in the world. But few do anything to make sure those ideas actually happen.

The Clinton Global Initiative is different. Participants agree to specific, measurable “commitments” and report back to CGI on their progress. This week the Initiative announced commitments by individuals and organizations that participated in the September 2011 event, including Insight Labs.

The Labs will fulfill our CGI commitment, “Leveraging Music for Social Good”  at the UX for Good event on May 2-4 in New Orleans. Partners in the event include the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, MusiCares (the nonprofit initiative of the GRAMMYs), Chicago arts guru Michael Orlove, and Chicago-based agency Manifest Digital (home of UX for Good co-founder Jason Ulaszek).

But the real stars of the event will be some of the nation’s top user-experience designers, who will converge on New Orleans in May. For three days, they’ll apply their unique mix of anthropological investigation and online know-how to understand the city’s music ecology, then ask how it could be radically better.

As CGI’s summary puts it: “This effort is the only such program to leverage the unique skills and perspectives of UX designers to solve social challenges.”

Check out the full description of insight Labs’s commitment on the Clinton Global Initiative site. You can also learn more about the commitments made by Lab alumni like Stephanie Pace Marshall and partner organizations such as Ashoka.