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Just had a great time at the Global Voices - Sharing our Vision conference hosted by our partner organization the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation. The conference started with a challenge to youth from the first keynote speaker LGen Romeo Dallaire. It was inspiring to hear his words and his recognition of NGOs being a key factor in enabling change. As Canadians he encouraged us to foster our skills in technology and strong work ethic to become activists and get involved in the field, our communities and in influencing policy.

The conference offered a variety of workshops to enable Albertans to come together and engage in meaningful dialogue on the Millennium Development Goals with locally-based NGOs and their partners from the Global South.

As a partner, TIG had the opportunity to set up a booth and talk with participants at the conference. Along with my host organization, Alberta's Youth VOLUNTEER!, we had sign up sheets for a future networking meeting and opportunities to do further TAKE ACTION workshops in schools and communities. We were very please to have participants sign up and I look forward to following up with these potential partners soon.

I hosted a workshop today entitled the Power of Youth and Technology: Inspiring, Informing and Involving Young People to Help Achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Along with Leslie (the ED of AYV!) and Kate (a youth board member on AYV!) we delivered an interactive workshop that had the 11 participants brainstorming together how we can engage youth in taking action on these goals. Wearing different "hats" (quite literally we had birthday hats!! hehe) the participants brainstormed how youth, mentors, NGOs and policy makers need to work together to meaningfully engage youth. The workshop ended with a sense that we need to foster collaboration through both offline and online networking. This will be enabled through a project page I have developed (http://projects.takingitglobal.org/abyouthmdg) and a local networking meeting that will be held in early March.

I am working with AYV! and the GEN practicum students to develop and implement a TAKE ACTION on the MDGs workshop. These networks will really help to create local connections with the youth that we work with to supportive organizations that want and have the capacity to support youth action.

I have a really exciting stakeholder meeting this week on environmental youth engagement that I will definitely be reporting about soon.

Hurray for networking!

JL

February 23, 2008 | 9:42 PM Comments  0 comments

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