Youth

Global Innovation Forum for Education and Development

21/10/2008 - 08:00
24/10/2008 - 17:00

Organized by: UNDESA-GAID e-Leaders Committee, Athgo International, Ministry of Economy – the Republic of Armenia

The Global Innovation Forum for Education and Development provides a platform for several hundred young people across the globe to advance their causes toward achieving the MDGs through ICT. The forum is set to encourage young people to get engaged in, and develop and propose new ICT initiatives that innovatively advance local communities in various emerging regions.

Area experts from private and public sectors and selected young participants are invited to showcase their successful ICT practices during the four interactive days. The forum will highlight new innovations in ICT and new ground-breaking business models and methods that successfully address the developmental needs in different societies.

Location(s)

Yerevan
Yerevan
Armenia
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Connecting Rural Communities Africa Forum 2008: Last Mile Solutions: ICT Strategy, Government and Regulatory Policy and USFs

26/08/2008 - 09:00
28/08/2008 - 17:00

This forum will bring together public and private sector giants to discuss last mile solutions, technologies, applications, business models and roadmaps to bridge the digital divide.

Key topics:

  • Government policy
  • Regulatory policy
  • USFs
  • Funding
  • 3G, WiMAX, WiFi, Satelllite, Broadband
  • Business models
  • Empowering African youth and women
  • Case studies
  • Capacity Building
  • Telecentres

Location(s)

Lilongwe
Lilongwe
Malawi
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UN names young leaders to Global Coalition for digital technologies and Development

United Nations, 07 APRIL – The United Nations appointed today ten young peoples from around the world to a Committee of eLeaders for ICT and Youth to help support its efforts in promoting the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to eradicate poverty and advance development.

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Youth Fund

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Through an innovative partnership between the Inter-American Development Bank and Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Community Technology Skills, the Youth Development Program for Innovation and Social Action or “Youth Fund” was established as an instrument to effectively respond to the needs of young people in the Latin American and Caribbean region and to promote their participation in the development process.

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Info Express (Trinidad and Tobago)

Submitted by admin on Fri, 15/02/2008 - 20:33.

The Project’s main goal consists on offering substantial and useful information to young students of scarce resources by using the Internet search capacities.

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World Links

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World Links' innovative award-winning programs provide developing countries with capacity-building and self-sustaining school-based, ICT-related solutions that transfer skills and create measurable, exponential impact.

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Youth @ its best

Submitted by admin on Fri, 15/02/2008 - 20:33.

Youth @ Its Best is an innovative technology-based educational project offering an alternative channel for learning, creative expression and personal development for effort-oriented adolescents (aged 12-18) from marginalized urban communities of Costa Rica.

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Youth, unemployment and the Caribbean Information Society: a challenge and an opportunity

Submitted by admin on Fri, 15/02/2008 - 20:33.

This paper explores an approach to tackling the challenge of youth unemployment that focuses on the information and communications technology sector and on nurturing the entrepreneurial initiatives of young persons.

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CDI - Digital Inclusion

Submitted by admin on Fri, 15/02/2008 - 20:33.

Through its Information Technology and Citizen Rights Schools (ITCRSs), created mainly in partnership with community organizations, CDI implements educational programs both in Brazil and abroad, aiming at mobilizing excluded segments of society and helping them to transform their reality.

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ComputerWorld: 23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines

Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/02/2008 - 15:04.

Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step to preparing them for a technology-literate future, but in the Philippines many schools cannot afford to provide computing facilities so after a successful deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a government grant, plans are underway to roll out another 10,000 based on Ubuntu.

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