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Appreciation for the effort at Rework the World
Jim Wine, advisor to the Tallberg Foundation & Rework the World event in Leksand, Sweden 2-5 June 2010, shares his thoughts with our representers Amy Ilic & Phoebe Phillips in a surprising turn of the camera!
THE GREAT GENERATION
“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great.
You can be that great generation.
Let your greatness blossom.”
Nelson Mandela
He’s right. The choices previous generations made have put us in a very serious situation with extreme poverty, climate change and food shortage. Yes, choices. These things are not a force of nature. It’s a [...]
Take it personally
If you were one of the lead organizers of this massive event, what would you say at the closing?
Well, here are the closing words from Joao Felipe Scarpelini, Project Manager for Peace Child International at the 5th World Youth Congress 2010 in Istanbul, 12 August.
Video by Jonas Eriksson
A Day for the Future
We invite you to attend “A Day for the Future” this Sunday 29 August on Skeppsholmen in Stockholm for a day full of great workshops, talks and cultural activities focused on Youth, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability. It’s free entrance – a great opportunity for everyone!
Representing Youth will be present, hosting sessions [...]
Istanbul Action Past
The Istanbul Action Plan is one tangible outcome of the world youth congress 2010. It contains thoughts and suggestions concerning the “Millennium Development Goals” which where set up by the United Nations in the year 2000. In order to mobilize “material and institutional support” for “youth-led development” projects, it highlights several key focus areas of [...]
Our Year, Our Voice
Our Year, Our Voice
Posted by Jonas Eriksson in Great Generation on August 11, 2011
I have been waiting for a long time and now it’s time for the UN Year of Youth to begin. Under the tagline “Our Year, Our Voice” young people from around the world will speak up for more participation, [...]
The Congress Times
The category of Young Journalists at the 5th World Youth Congress in Istanbul is an active and courageous group of 100+ budding young reporters who are contributing a huge amount to the sustainability of this conference by creating a flow of content that will continue to serve the congress aims long after we have all [...]
The beauty of Chaos
The beauty of Chaos
Curro Martino contemplating chaos in front of Ataturk “Father of the Turks” visage ©ndhct
The beauty of chaos
Neologismism is the suggestion to not only use new words (neologisms) but to dive into what they express. After one week of Istanbulism I think that I am allowed to report ohm mani [...]
Ferry Tale
Once up on a time there was a young woman sitting in white. -
In her hand she had a beautiful clear round crystal.
She was observing it in deep contemplation;
There was nothing, just her and the beautiful, transparent crystal.
The door was shut. Yes, there was a door.
As her eyes touched its wooden surface
far away memories of [...]
Let’s make it green!
3000 plastic cups are used every day at the 5th World Youth Congress, only in the restaurant – a shocking number for a summit that is supposed to promote sustainability. Once again it is up to youth to make this congress eco-friendly.
Plastic comes in many forms. There are water bottles everywhere, the cups are made [...]
Lobbying 101: An Afternoon with Felix Dodds
Representing Youth is working as a support platform for the media initative of Young Journalists at WYC 2010. We have picked this great review and pertinent observations of one of the first workshop sessions, which was published in the official WYC daily newpaper “The Congress Times”. To follow the congress online, please visit virtualwyc.net
Lobbying 101: [...]
Arriving in “THE ZONE”…
Our latest addition to the RE:PRESENT team, Jonas Eriksson, reflects on his fresh experiences at the World Youth Congress…
“THE ZONE”
The only way to survive the 5th World Youth Congress is to create some creative zones. Sanctuaries in the chaos where you can get your head together and rebuild your body and mind. I [...]
Interview with Me and Myself
Interview with me and Myself
Me: Hey Myself! I just got this new thought while I was typing in the headline.
Do you want to hear it?
Myself: Sure! Go for it!
Me: Well, initially I thought I would come to this event and write about it. You know, the “World Youth Congress”.
But now I’m realizing that it is actually the other way round…
Representing Youth at World Youth Congress
Today begins the 5th World Youth Congress in Istanbul, a 2-week exploration of international youth-led development, a culmination of young change-makers from around the world. 1300 delegates from 140 countries (selected by application in the following categories: activists, entrepreneurs, educators, artists & journalists), as well as 350 UN staff & representatives of state, including heads of state from various regions, are coming together to engage in process change on a new level. Turkish government has stepped forward to get inolved in a significant way, to support youth leadership on critical global issues.
Graphic Harvesting
Nanna Frank works for a graphic facilitation company Bigger Picture in Denmark. She came to the summit with her own very special task. We have been following Nanna from the first day at Rework since we were sharing in the workspace of popup HUB corner. She was harvesting the conversations and happenings at/around/inbetween Rework in her of [...]
Mapping the Amazon
Fernando Salazar is a biologist from Colombia who has been working with maps most of his life. He is working for RAISG (Amazon Information Network for Socio-ambiental Georeferencing) which is a part of an organisation called Gaia Amazonas. Some of the indigenous communities in the Amazon area are already autonomous while others are still struggling for [...]
“Don’t underestimate the potential of people”
Ambika Vishwanath is coming to Rework as a representative for Strategic Foresight Group. She’s currently focused on a Water Security Initiative for the Middle East. In this regard she is involved in participatory research, analysis, developing a comprehensive report on water security, and communication with relevant stakeholders in the region. In oder words the work at Strategic [...]
It will be green in Ghana!
Abdul-mumin Yussif is a young activist from Ghana working as a Project Coordinator for United Force for Development. They are mainly working with the 7th Millenium goal, ensuring environmental sustainability. In order to achieve that they are bringing together youth to strengthen their capacity in facing the challenges of bringing sustainable solutions into communities in Ghana.
As [...]
Understanding complexity of global challenges
Caroline Stiernstedt Sahlborn is a project director with the Tällberg Foundation and as responsible for external communications, including media relations she was the one Represeneters had firstly and most contact with and thanks to her we were given the opportunity to at all be present at the conference.
Tällberg Foundation, one of the partners at the Rework summit, [...]
Bringing fringe voices to the knowledge economy
What is Fair Knowledge? It is an organisation and the thought behind it that knowledge is fair when everyone has the opportunity to create, disseminate and apply it.
Through different workshops and events Fair Knowledge is striving to include EVERYONE in the education processes since we can always learn so much from each other and enrich [...]
No More Lullabies
No More Lullabies is an initiative bringing together musicians in order to “wake up” people from the status quo passiveness. As an artist and a musician one has a great chance to be a role model and to take advantage of that to communicate engagement and change seem quite natural when you actually see it [...]
Produce Local & Consume Local
Shashank Verma is founder and president at Clean Star Energy, India a sustainable biofuel company working with biofuels in India as well as Mozambique and Brasil.
Clean Star Energy is providing a more efficient supply chain, a distributive model where farmers are growing their own biofules on their less fertile areas of land and use that energy [...]
Peepoople
Karin Ruiz is a CEO at Peepoople, a company turning sanitation problem into a source of fertilizers. Offering smart solution in a form of degradable plastic bags that turn a growing problem of slums and undeveloped areas into an opportunity to increase crops!
This is like the bags are described on their Peepoople homepage:
“The Peepoo is [...]
Involve the community whose problem you’re addressing!
Ramesh Prabhu is an Indian entrepreneur running a SocioEnvio Solutions social enterprise in India. Their aim is to adress the problem of air-pollution caused by numerous auto rickshaws in India. Since new technological solutions are not always cheap and the drivers are very dependent on their minor daily income this challenge took a different approach. [...]
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