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Title: Asia Pacific Youth Teleconference Project
Location:
Global
Categories: Technology & Innovation
Children’s Rights
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
July 1 03 to December 30 04
Description:
Project Title: Asia Pacific Youth Teleconference Initiative: Promoting ICT-literacy and ICT-inclusivity
Project Short Title: Asia Pacific Youth Teleconference
Estimated Start Date: January 1, 2004
Estimated End Date: December 2004
Implementing Body: 1st ITU Asia Youth Forum alumni
Partner: International Telecommunication Union
Project Site: Asia Pacific region
Beneficiary Countries: [Currently] Australia, China, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, New Zealand, Pakistan and Singapore (More countries from Asia-Pacific region are expected to join this project as it progresses).
We are working towards being able to facilitate a series of teleconferencing sessions centred in the Asia-Pacific region, in which young people can participate. Participants will share experiences, generate ideas, and communicate perspectives on increasing ICT-inclusivity. These are expected to lead to concrete actions and follow-up initiatives across the region.
Cooperation between youth in throughout the Asia-Pacific has great potential to address an increasingly important issue, the digital divide, particularly evident in this region, by providing a broad base of support for grassroots initiatives.
Objectives:
By undertaking this project, we aim to achieve the following practical goals:
- Promote youth action towards local and local initiatives based on cooperation and aimed to bridge the digital divide.
- Increase the awareness of the different aspects of the digital divide and empower youth voices on the subject.
- Make our voices to be heard by relevant institutional authorities, to shape their policies accordingly
- Encourage developed countries to invest in the field of ICT in developing countries so that information and knowledge is spread more fairly and effectively.
Needs:
We currently seek socially-responsible, international organisations willing to join us in this project as technological and methodological partners.
In addition to this advisory and technical support, we will be seeking sponsorship and grants. On availability of funding, the event will be widely publicised and the call for essays will made.
The technical needs for the actual teleconferencing are detailed in our Proposal document
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