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African youths - WSISYOUTH AFRICA
November 16, 2002 - 07:37 AM
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Hi all,
I beleieve that through one mailing list or the other you might have read/heard of the eConference african youths are about to have on the input of African youths to the WSIS youth Caucus position paper for the World summit on The Informatioon Soceity. I am calling on all African youths on the continent and in diasposra as well as interested observers from all over the world to come on board and join us @ http://groups.yahoo.com/wsisyouthafrica Take a look at the updated files and get ready by reading and noting your observation and ideas ready for discussion at the weeklong eConference. The econference we have scheduled to begin on the 20th - 30th of
November
Lets work together on this and build up an input by us not waiting for or criticising alone what we have met and others are doing... YOU CAN BE A PART OF THIS CHANGE!!!
Please join the group @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wsisyouthafrica take a look at the files posted, and get ready to give an input to make a change and build our future!!!
Thank You!!!
-Titi
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Re: African youths - WSISYOUTH AFRICA
January 16, 2003 - 10:41 AM
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Titi & fellow people of the world!!!
You have a very good point... We the young people of SA (yes in Soweto and elsewhere) are now volunteering skills and time to practise what everyone preaches "Bridging the Digital Divide (in the Third World)"
Unfortunately when this was posted I wasn's a TIGer, I would have been there. Anyway this (wsisyouthafrica) or ICT at large is a bit of an indictment on its very purpose... The truth is so many people - esp rural areas - are still trapped in old or NO technology at all. So where & how do they feature? Exactly why we are working towards building Internet cafès in SA.
Can you believe it, with a population of 47m in SA, its "Internet population" is <2m (4.2%!!!). South Africans, Africans, people of the world - c'mon... let's get moving. Let's engage in real and concrete projects and get our communities empowered... We can't just be talking big in cities like Harare, Lagos or Joburg... Let's go to Muzvezve, let's go to Ife (or any village), let's go to Kuruman! Africa is not just about Cairo or Nairobi... we have villages too! Let's remember & empower our villages - big and small! COME ON PEOPLE!!!!! -me (the Prince of SADC)
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Linking on and offline communities
January 16, 2003 - 11:29 AM
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One of the groups that we've had some good discussions with about this is the Worldview International Foundation. They run a project called Mandate the Future, which brings online the ideas, wants, needs and opinions of grassroots youth without direct access to the Internet. MtF does this through collaboration with WIF's global NGO network operating at the grassroots level through more than 800 Community Based Organizations (CBOs). These institutions have organized youth from the local community to form 'youth circles'. Three thousand ICT disadvantaged youth in each country, about 25,000 youth in all, participate on MtF through the 50 Community Communication Centres established by WIF. The output of youth discussions at community level is the content-input for http://www.ctrlaltesc.org/
We're really hoping to work more closely with MtF in the future to bring in the perspectives of their youth networks. The toughest part is establishing timelines that allow for the input of these youth. I find that frequently the international community (especially working on information society issues) works on such short timelines that it is almost impossible to allow for the time necessary for the message to spread through these youth networks, for them to meet, and for the response to come back. I think it's absolutely critical that we all reassess how FAST we try to get things done... it's a tough balance to find.
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CALLING YOUNG AFRICAN JOURNALISTS
March 10, 2003 - 09:45 AM
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The African Youth Parliament is pleased to announce ten scholarships to
young African journalists based in Africa, aged between 15 and 28 years, to participate in the first historic sitting of AYP2003.
The ten scholarships are offered as a commitment to develop skills and experience for young journalists to make them This shall be a unique opportunity for the young selected journalists to get to cover the event as they develop the tools for effective journalism. The AYP2003 will bring together 240 youth from 55 countries in Africa from 19th- 29th March in Nairobi, Kenya. The scholarships are worth 600USD per scholarship and cover accommodation, meals, local transport, materials and training.
To apply please send us a copy of your Curriculum Vitae/Resume, a letter of support from your organisation or editor and a 200 word essay on why
you think you should be selected. Send it to info@ayparliament.org titled "Media Applications"
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Re: African youths
March 10, 2003 - 10:10 AM
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If we need to break the yoke , African youths are the most blessed in intellectualism, wisdom and human resources but this is not emanating in our societies.Today ,most African youths are hopeless because of the way our governments handle issues as it relates to them.Also these youths are never encouraged to undertake projects that will help in bringing back hopes to them.SO WHEN IS THE TIME TO EVOLVE?
My brothers and sisters, it is time for us to change our attitudes towards our future and we take giant steps now to unleash the potential and let our leaders see us performing without MAYBE SUCCOUR WILL COME FROM THEM !
TITI, IF YOU ARE READING WHEN IS THE AFRICAN YOUTH CONFERENCE AND WHERE AT WHAT COST?
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