Global Youth Dialogue

• NATION1. Nation1 is a totally-youth run project that aims to empower young people globally using communication technologies.

• United Nations Youth Information Network (UNYIN). The United Nations Youth Information Network (UNYIN) is a global electronic network, established by the United Nations in 1996. It has been set up to enhance awareness of the global situation of youth and increase recognition of the rights and aspirations of youth; to promote national youth policies in cooperation with both governmental and non-governmental youth organizations; to strengthen the participation of youth in decision-making processes at all levels; to encourage mutual respect and understanding and peace among youth.

• Generation WHY. WHY stands for: Worldwide Horizons for Youth. Children serving as learning resources for their teachers and contributing to change in the learning environment. The foundation for Generation WHY is the extensive involvement of students in collaboration with teachers, the local community, and corporate sponsors to assist in the restructuring of education through telecommunications.

• I*EARN (. The International Education and Resource Network - the I*EARN enables young people to undertake Internet projects designed to make a meaningful contribution to the health and welfare of the planet and its people.

• World Voices. World Voices is a coalition of young people from around the world working with academics, challenge our relationships with each other personalities and organisations - to and the planet. Their projects include an international conference, festival and campa book, and an urgent action email network. They have plans for a small grants programme and a web site packed with information on the green and ethical careers available in countries around the world.

• Digital Clubhouse. A Digital Clubhouse is a new kind of community resource and learning centre that is dedicated to empowering friends and neighbours so that they can help one another to get a better understanding of the tools of communication for participating more productively in the emerging 'Digital Age'.

• Voices of youth. This project is developed by UNICEF which enables youth to discuss on how the world can become a place where the rights of every child are protected. There are three electronic discussion fora where youth are given a possibility to express their views: the meeting place, where they will be asked to give their views on current global issues, the learning place, where groups of young people in different locations of the world will work together on interactive global learning projects and the teaching place, where teachers, trainers, educational planners can discuss the use of electronic networks for global educational projects, and exchange experiences about other similar projects in this field.

• African Development Forum: Youth Focus. The mission of the ADF Youth Focus is to information and communication technologies to empower African youth. One can learn about the youth perspectives on the presentations and workshops held at the African Development Forum 1999 as well as new projects, programs, and initiatives.

• Generation WHY. Worldwide Horizons for Youth: Children serving as learning resources for their teachers and contributing to change in the learning environment. The foundation for Generation WHY is the extensive involvement of students in collaboration with teachers, the local community, and corporate sponsors to assist in the restructuring of education through telecommunications.

• Global Schoolhouse. The Global Schoolhouse provides ongoing opportunities to support learners on the Internet both in and outside of the schoolenvironment. It provides guidelines for students on how to build a student-designed webpage and tools on how to develop and manage your own projects.

• The Globe Programme. Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. GLOBE students make environmental observations at or near their schools and report their data through internet.

• DRIK. In September 1989, a small group of people, in an effort to change the negative portrayal of people in the developing world set up a picture library, not in the traditional locations of London, New York or Paris, but in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. DRIK, a Sanskrit word, stands for vision, inner vision, philosophy of vision. It was an attempt to extract at least a degree of control from the West in terms of how people in poorer nations were represented. Seven years and 85000 images later, DRIK stands tall amongst image banks in the Third World, not only in the quality or quantity of its images but through the nature of its work.

• United Nations CyberSchoolBus. The United Nations Cyberschoolbus was created in 1996 as the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations. The UN Cyberschoolbus captures the growing potential of the Internet as an educational tool and provides an effective medium with which to disseminate information and resources about international affairs, as well as bring together diverse communities of students and educators from around the world. Within the Cyberschoolbus there are a number of activities and projects that students about global issues in an interactive, engaging and fun way.

• Global teenager project by International Institute for Communication and Development. The Global Teenager network is a network of students from both developing and developed countries. The network creates a 'safe space' for students teachers to discover international learning.

• Youth on Board. Youth on Board is pioneering permanent change in how society view young people. Youth on Board envisions a world where young people are fully respected, and treated as valued and active members of their families, communities, and society. To reach that end, they are working to revolutionize the role of young people in society by: changing attitudes and strengthening relationships among youth, and young people and adults; preparing young people to be leaders and decision makers in all aspects of their lives; and ensuring that policies, practices and laws reflect young people's role as full and valued members of their communities.

• Global Meetings of Generations. Global Meetings of Generations (GMG) intends to engage those who will in the future carry major responsibility for improving the human condition in direct dialogue with those leaders of the development enterprise who laid the development groundwork over the past decades and those who currently lead the effort. The GMG program will demonstrate the importance of multi-generational, multi-sectoral, international dialogue.

• INFOYOUTH. The INFOYOUTH Network was initiated in 1991 by UNESCO in order to meet two main challenges: on the one hand, the necessity to counteract the splintering of various and scattered information sources and networks on youth, and on the other, the urgent need to implement appropriate and coherent youth policies from local global levels. The INFOYOUTH database provides full text of national youth policies and selected papers on the state of youth in UNESCO's Member States.