PROJECT MOTIVATION – Young people use ICT contents for millennium issues:
• Young people live and work with the Internet and Mobile Communications;
• The United Nations has declared eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in order to secure the future of human kind in a just...
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PROJECT MOTIVATION – Young people use ICT contents for millennium issues:
• Young people live and work with the Internet and Mobile Communications;
• The United Nations has declared eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in order to secure the future of human kind in a just global community free from hunger, poverty, disease and environmental degradation;
• Internet Contents and Mobile Multimedia are the main form of global communication for issues and concerns.

The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) invites in an international competition e-Contents from around the world that address in an inspiring manner the UN Millennium Development Goals and use internet and mobile contents to create awareness of the MDGs, show actions towards reaching those goals and demonstrate the consequences of inaction or counter-action.
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The WSYA selects and promotes best practice in e-Content and technological creativity, demonstrates young people’s potential to create outstanding digital contents and serves as a platform for people from all UN member states to work together in the efforts to reduce poverty and hunger, and to...
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The WSYA selects and promotes best practice in e-Content and technological creativity, demonstrates young people’s potential to create outstanding digital contents and serves as a platform for people from all UN member states to work together in the efforts to reduce poverty and hunger, and to tackle ill-health, gender inequality, lack of education, lack of access to clean water and environmental degradation.

WSYA is therefore both, a showcase to the world for young designers, technologists and e-Content creators as well as a contribution on a global scale to addressing poverty, protecting the environment, sharing knowledge and empowering young people.

The World Summit Youth Award will be promoted in all UN member states through the networks of the World Summit Award (WSA,) the UN Global Alliance for ICT, the participating UN organizations and Agencies, governments and NGOs, youth organizations and all others committed to the motivation of the project.

The WSYA will be organized 2008 to 2009 as a follow up activity of the World Summit on Information Society and its action plan towards the year 2015. It will be conducted in five categories. The finalists and category winners will be invited to the WSA Events in May 2009 in Monterrey, Mexico.
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WSYA GOALS – e-Contents for Change:
• The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) wishes to showcase the skills, ideas and projects of young people to create e-Contents and applications which address the MDGs;
• The WSYA will network best-practices and allow idea- and skill-sharing between...
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WSYA GOALS – e-Contents for Change:
• The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) wishes to showcase the skills, ideas and projects of young people to create e-Contents and applications which address the MDGs;
• The WSYA will network best-practices and allow idea- and skill-sharing between the best and most innovative content creators and producers, application developers and designers;
• The WSYA will celebrate the achievements in local content creation and offer the projects to UN for the support of the MDGs.
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