ITU Youth Forum Evolution

NEW Youth Forum Alumni Network

2011-03-30T23:13:00.001-07:00

Dear ITU Youth Forum Alumni!

We are pleased to inform you that the online Youth Forum Alumni Network is now ready for you to use! As a 2009 Youth Forum fellow, you requested us to redesign and refresh and update our former online network for Youth Forum Alumni. We have been working with several Youth Forum Alumni to create a brand new tool to enable you to stay in touch with one another. We invite you to register and start using the network at: http://www.ituyouthforumalumni.net/

This network provides Youth Forum Alumni a platform to connect, discuss ideas, share information about their work or studies and learn from and collaborate with one another to keep alive the spirit of the Youth Forum. The network will also serve as a bridge between Youth Forum Alumni and ITU, allowing Alumni to voice their opinions on the latest ICT issues and stay informed about ITU activities. We developed this website to enable Youth Forum Alumni to build upon their Youth Forum experience and emerge as leaders in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

This network is your network! We encourage your active membership and participation. After registering, please input your profile where you can also upload pictures, web links and other information or files that will interest your peers. The network's content management system also includes Forums. We invite you to open Forum discussions on any topic you wish. We simply request that you keep the level of discussion professional. Of course, only with your participation will the Network become alive.

As you may remember, ITU launched the Connect a School, Connect a Community initiative with your help during the 2009 ITU TELECOM Youth Forum. Since that time we've created a toolkit of best practices for policy makers and a repository of training materials for connected schools which is available at: www.connectaschool.org. Please visit and you will find a picture of you and the United Nations Secretary General gracing the home page! This website is designed to provide support to countries seeking to connect their schools and opening school-based community ICT centres. In this way ICTs can be used to promote the social and economic development of the children and youth who attend these schools as well as everyone in the local community.

ITU has also held a number of meetings with its members, to raise political awareness for the need to connect schools, and we've provided policy advice to countries in the Americas, Arab States and Africa on developing national school connectivity plans. We hope to expand this advice to a growing number of countries. We will also be organizing an Americas Regional Forum on Connect a School, Connect a Community in June. Just log on to the Connect a School website to follow our latest activities.

Now we have a challenge for you. Some people say that today's youth only use ICTs for fun or to stay in touch with friends. Teachers often complain that all the time students spend online detracts from their studies. Recent events, however, have shown the power of youth and ICTs. To launch your Youth Forum Alumni Network, we invite you to share your thoughts on the initial Forum entitled:

"Youth and ICTs can . . . "

We would also be delighted if some of you would wish to volunteer as Moderators on the Youth Forum Alumni Network to add new Forum topics.

Let's build the Youth Forum Alumni together!

Please contact the site administrators if you have any suggestions or questions.

Warm regards,
ITU Special Initiatives Team

2011-01-03T08:26:00.001-08:00

some interesting information for you

Mohamad Arif Julianto 29. Dezember 2010 um 02:33

Assalamualaikum wr wb..
Hello my friends,,,,

I still remember that you ever told me to give you information about seminar, conference, workshop, etc. Here are some information for you:

Internship in Korea:
http://www.ists.unu.edu/news/news_view.php?IDX=30&page=1&no=1

The International Student Week in Ilmenau @German:
http://iswi.org/index.php?id=140

Cilmate Change Working Group @UK:
http://www.ccwg11.org/

Indonesian Youth Mini conference 2011:
http://www.iymc2011.co.cc/

Fw: follow up on Young Leaders in ICT Network

2010-11-18T05:03:00.000-08:00

----- Forwarded Message ----

From: "youth@itu.int" <youth@itu.int>
Sent: Wed, 10 March, 2010 15:25:47
Subject: RE: follow up on Young Leaders in ICT Network

Dear all

Further to our e-mail below we acknowledge with deep regret that we didn't received any proposal aiming to improve the existing Young Leaders In ICT Network. If the dely was too short, please let us know.
Johan Maricq sent us some ideas, for which we thank him. However, there is no concrete proposal from any of you.

If this is not the case and for any reason your e-mail (containing the proposal) didn't arrived to us, we would very much appreciate let us know, and to send it again.

Looking forward to hearing from you and

Best regards,

Roxana Widmer-Iliescu
Youth Programme Officer
Focal Point for Assistance to indigenous people
BDT / PRI / SIS
e-mail : roxana.widmer-iliescu@itu.int
Phone : +41 22 730 5474
Fax : +41 22 730 5484

Web : www.itu.int/ITU-D/youth/
www.itu.int/ITU-D/indigenous/

International Telecommunication Union
Place des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland

From: Widmer-Iliescu, Roxana
Sent: mercredi, 16. décembre 2009 18:05
To: 'Leonardo Valdivieso'; 'Patrick Beggan'; 'Johan Maricq'; 'Toktonaliev, Mars (NSN - HU/Budapest)'; 'MIGISHA KALISA Claude'; 'mahesh thilahasiri'
Cc: Youth, ITU; Schorr, Susan; Kushtuev, Maxim; Bekele, Sunny; Khalfaoui, Cherifa
Subject: follow up on Young Leaders in ICT Network
Importance: High

Dear Youth Forum Alumni, voluntaries to be Administrators and/or Moderators of the ITU-Young Leaders in ICT Network,

Based on the attached guidelines, we invite you all to submit us, your proposal aiming to improve the existing structure/presentation of the current ITU-Youth Forum Alumni Network, the ITU-Young leaders in ICTs (URL: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/youth/YLinICTs/default_group.asp).

The ITU/Special Initiative Division, would like to have you all involved in this process of refreshing and rebuilding of this ICT toll, which not only should respond to your visions and wishes but also represent YOU, the ITU Youth Forum Alumni.

Your proposals are expected at: youth@itu.int) latest by the end of February 2010.

We look forward to receive your proposals and take this opportunity to wish you ALL the best of health, happiness and prosperity throughout the coming year 2010!

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year 2010 !
Joyeux Noël et Bonne et Heureuse Année 2010 !
Felices Fiestas de Navidad y Próspero Año 2010 !
Craciun Fericit si Impliniri in Noul An 2010 !
! 2010  عيد ميلاد مجيد وسنة جديدة سعيدة

Warm regards,

Susan, Sunny, Sellima, Maxim and Roxana

BDT-Special Initiatives Unit