UN Youth Summit & Mentoring Program
The United Nations Global Youth Leadership Summit (GYLS) seeks to strengthen the worldwide movement to engage young people in decisions about the future of their communities, regions, and our emerging global society.
Young leaders, one young man and one young woman from the 192 United Nations member states, met in New York on 29 - 31 October 2006, to share ideas and actions plans on ways to reduce poverty and accelerate the achievement of the other Millennium Development Goals and build peace, with sport and culture as vehicles for reaching out to youth worldwide.
And THE Technology Sponsor for the event was....
Yes, you guessed it!
SUN MICROSYSTEMS
What does this mean?
Well, first of all, it means that Sun's name was all over the place at the UN!!! But, it also meant that Sun's presence in the Global Village was exceptional. The global village was an area that the students could go to browse the web, check email, etc... - all on SunRay's, of course! Sun also set up and hosted the website for the Youth Summit which included
- Summit Diaries - Opinions from the Delegates
- Digital Stories - Short video clips to express personal perspectives on issues and to inspire people into action
- Youth journalists report from the Summit - Professional and student journalists from around the nation provides daily coverage of the Summit
- Interviews from the Summit - Audio interviews of several of the delegates
and much more...
But, Sun in typical fashion, was not content to do this one-time event and walk away. So, they also created the UN Youth Mentorship Program and recruited delegates to sign up. This program brings the delegates together with volunteer mentors from Sun with the aim of sharing private-sector disciplines around building community, fueling momentum, measuring impact and achieving repeatable results.
Talk about Participation! What better way to reach the world than through its youth!!!
