Fwd: [Yc-news] UNFPA e-consultation on Youth Participation in Healthand ICTs for Development
Phung Bich Thuy
Dear All,
Find below information on an upcoming E-consultation on Youth
Participation in Health and ICTs for Development. Please pass the
information to Youth and Youth Networks you work with.
The United Nations Population Fund wish to invite young people to
join an E-consultation on Youth Participation in Health and ICTs for
Development to identify young people who have been involved in Local
and National health and ICTs development strategies to feed into an
upcoming GAID/ITU/UN Global Forum.
The Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID), the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in partnership with the
United Nations is holding a Global Forum on Youth and ICT for
development: Youth and ICT as Agents of Change in Geneva,
Switzerland, from 24 to 26 September 2007. The aim of this E-
consultation at the African level is to identify young people and
their experiences in using Information and Communication
Technologies to influence and advocate for health issues (especially
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS).
Furthermore, the E-consultation will serve as a platform for
experience sharing and provide inputs for developing a report on
Youth involvement in Health and ICTs which will form part of the
youth submission to the upcoming Global Forum and serve as a
reference point for development experts and policy makers.
The role of youth in ICT for development cannot be underestimated
and hence this urgent attention to involving youth in the mainstream
of ICT for Health development in line with the Millennium
Development Goals. Information and Communication Technologies are
means, devices and applications like radio, television, cellular
phones, computers and network hardware and software, satellite
systems, bills and banners, print media etc that can transmit
information (in this case, health information) .
This E-consultation will avail young people of the opportunity to
voice their concerns, share experiences and proffer solutions to
better options of harnessing the rich potentials of ICTs to advocate
and influence health policies and decisions (especially Adolescent
Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS)
The E-consultation will take place over 4 weeks from 24 July to 14
August 2007.
To subscribe, go to http://groups.takingitglobal.org/healthandICT s
Just for your information, activities that qualify as ICT include:
* Print technology whereby young people publish books, journals,
magazines etc on HIV/AIDS/ASRH
* Internet technology whereby young people post issues on
HIV/AIDS/ASRH on the Internet
* Bills and Posters
* Radio Programmes
* Television Programmes
* Documentaries on HIV/AIDS/ASRH on CDs and DVDs
* Hot lines for counseling
* Mobile phone technology whereby messages on HIV/AIDS/ASRH are
sent via SMS to targeted youth population