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Date sent: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:53:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: TakingITGlobal Dispatch 7.10: HIV/AIDS
To: "International Young Professionals Founda"
From: "TIG Dispatch"
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- The TakingITGlobal Dispatch!
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For the month of December 2007 (Volume 7.10):
To manage your subscription, click here:
http://en.takingitglobal.org/d/4866060
In this Issue:
1 -> Welcome to the Dispatch
2 -> Project Stitch Contest
3 -> HIV/AIDS: Your Stories
4 -> YES Fund: ICT Businnes Plan Competition 2007
5 -> HIV/AIDS: Your Stories
6 -> Featured Country: Malaysia
7 -> TakingITGlobal in 2007
8 -> Wrap Up
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The new face of HIV/AIDS is undoubtedly global leadership or more
importantly youth leadership and education. While this epidemic has
been ravaging the world's populations for over 20 years now, the
efforts that have been made to combat this disease through awareness
and effective leadership has been immense. HIV/AIDS will be the
featured topic on the TakingITGlobal site this month, and we
encourage
all of you to visit our HIV/AIDS Understanding the Issues page here:
http://issues.takingitglobal.org/hiv
This section was recently improved with more resources relevant to
youth all over the world who are active and engaged in the fight
against HIV/AIDS. The struggle against this epidemic is one in which
all of you, as youth leaders, will need to be informed and engaged.
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50% of new HIV transmissions take place amongst 15-24 year olds, so
we
need to connect with each other, empower ourselves and make change.
Project Stitch is a youth focused HIV awareness project brought to
you
by AIDS Vancouver and YouthCO AIDS Society. The Digital AIDS Quilt is
a multi-media collage created by young people. Now 289 pieces
strong,
this quilt expresses our experience and understanding of HIV=B4s
impact. Add your piece to the ever-evolving quilt and you could
potentially win a digital camera! Submit here:
http://en.takingitglobal.org/express/gallery/contests/index.html
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HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today -
and young people remain at the center of the epidemic, in terms of
infection rates and potential for change. This World AIDS Day,
December 1st 2007, members of the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS
(GYCA) are organizing 104 events in 34 countries to highlight the
pressing need to build youth leadership and to listen to the voices
of
young leaders fighting HIV and AIDS in their communities.
Learn more:
http://www.youthaidscoalition.org
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-- ++ 4. YES Fund: ICT Businnes Plan Competition 2007
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Global Fund for Youth Entrepreneurship (YES Fund), a signature
initiative of YES Inc. seeks to create markets and unleash
entrepreneurship in developing countries by helping young people to
identify business opportunities, prepare their business plans and
compete for the best ideas. ICT Business Plan Competition for
2007-2008 launched by YES Fund for India and Kenya will support youth
entrepreneurs between the age of 18-35 years for setting up new
business and expansion of a budding business.
The YES Fund will offer $2000 as Prize money for each Award Winning
Business Plan, along with other crucial supports like mentoring by
professionals and field Experts, increasing their access to Financial
institutions and venture capitalists, links to Innovative Business
development services, and enrollment with YES entrepreneurial forum
for learning and sharing experiences. To promote Youth
Entrepreneurship in ICT sector, align with YES Fund as Screeners and
Business Coaches and also refer young people for the Business Plan
Contest. Entrepreneurs from Kenya and India, who aspire to start
their
own ICT Business, could join the present contest to win exciting
awards and business development services.
Learn more about the contest here:
www.yesweb.org/fund
Send in your completed application form or the registration form
before January 19 2008 to: yesfund (at) yesweb.org.
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Submit your writing on HIV/AIDS throughout the month of December to
the latest Panorama issue: 'HIV/AIDS: Your Stories'. This special
issue is about sharing your personal stories, revelations, and
experiences. You don=B4t have to be suffering directly from HIV/AIDS
to be affected by this global issue and have a story to share.
Submit here:
http://en.takingitglobal.org/express/panorama/nextissue.html
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-- ++ 6. Featured Country: Malaysia
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In December TakingITGlobal staff and members will travel to Malaysia
for the Global Knowledge Partnership's Third Global Knowledge
Conference taking place in the capital city, Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia
is
the founding member of ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Nations),
and following rapid economic advances in the last century, is now
considered one of the newly industrialized countries of Southeast
Asia. Malaysia is very multicultural, with Malay, Chinese, Indian and
other ethnic influences. Not only does Malaysia feature modern
city-centres but also some of the most beautiful beaches and national
parks in the region.
http://malaysia.takingitglobal.org/
Note: We apologize for the misuse of the word 'aboriginal' in
reference to the Maori people who are actually New Zealand's
indigenous peoples, and its capital city is located on the
southern-most tip of the North Island.
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2007 has been an exciting and unprecedented year for TakingITGlobal!
TIG was a featured project at the NetSquared Conference, where
nonprofits, tech practitioners, innovators, philanthropists and
visionaries help bring 20 promising projects to the next level in
social benefit through web tools. At the beginning of the year Her
Excellency the Governor General of Canada became an Honorary Patron
of
TakingITGlobal, and invited Director Jennifer Corriero on her offical
visit to Brazil in July. TIG was also honoured as the Tech Museum
Education Laureate at the Tech Museum Gala in San Jose. Considered
the
"Academy Awards" of technology and innovation, the Tech Museum
awards recognize the work of leading innovators using technology to
benefit humanity. TakingITGlobal's Online Community also began the
launch and revamp of several site sections such as: Organizations,
Commitments, Understanding the Issues, and Petitions. Recently TIG
received an exciting donation from Worldlingo that will allow some of
the content on our Online Community to be automatically translated
into 10 of o
In 2008 TakingITGlobal will be moving forward in revamping other
sections of the Online Community such as My TIG, and launching
features like content ranking, that will allow our members even
greater interaction with the content on the TIG site. TIG will also
be
involved in various offline projects including World Youth Congress
2008 in Quebec City, and the AIDS Conference in Mexico City.
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-- ++ 8. Wrap Up
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Your interest, support and involvement with TakingITGlobal helps our
community to grow and encourages more young people to become
inspired,
informed and involved everyday! In being a member of TakingITGlobal,
you are part of a community that is 170,000 strong coming from over
250 countries and territories. Thank you for having a vision of
positive change. Your work makes a difference!
In friendship,
The TakingITGlobal Team
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