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 Features
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Youth and ICT
Reflecting on the future
Saswati Paik
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Mapping the Neighbourhood
Innovation in schools
Rumi Mallick, Himanshu Kalra
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GKP Youth and ICT Awards 2005
Recognising young social entrepreneurs
Sejuti Sarkar De
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Interviews with Youth and ICT: Awards 2005 winners
Audrey Espinosa Codera,Salah Uddin Ahmed,Mark Okowa,Wu Yung,Raj Ridvan Singh,Rana Gulzar,Jean-Paul Bauer,Nileshni Sekar
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Five years of TakingITGlobal
A dynamic and global online community
Dumisani Nyoni
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First grassroots educational video festival in Bangladesh
Inspiring rural youth and children
Shahjahan Siraj
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Information Technology Institute for the Tribes of India (ITITI)
Mainstreaming tribal communities with IT
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Ranjana Joshi
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GKP youth initiatives
Promoting innovations
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The Human Network peace and ICT research project
Making peace online: A vision or an illusion?
Dmitry Epsterin, Farah Mahmood, Lisa Thurston
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Young Asia Television , Sri Lanka
Changing the world through broadcasting
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 GKP Youth and ICT Awards 2005 Winner
‘Global environment requires more action’
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The Household Wastewater Recycling Management Project includes an innovative design for a pipeline system that could potentially address the severe water shortage in Beijing, and ultimately, all of China. It originated in an essay competition sponsored by Bayer Corporation in partnership with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The project’s author, 20-year old Wu Yang, is a student in Beijing Jiaotong University, with his major in Electrical Engineering. When he was a child, Wu Yang wanted to persuade people to protect environment by using philosophy, ethics and literature. But he is now resorting to politics, economics and science, since he has realised that the degradation of global environment requires more action than compassion.
Recognised as a ‘Bayer China Youth Environmental Envoy’, Wu Yang received the opportunity to take part in a field trip to Germany, where he learned about modern industrial product development and manufacturing based on the concept of sustainable development. Coupled with his efforts in increasing public awareness about conserving water, his long term vision is to usher in a conservation-minded society in China. He is, therefore, focusing on the Internet as a business platform for environmental protection products and technologies; as an education center, where environmental education videos can be viewed; and as a medium to demonstrate and popularize his product design.
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What are the major activities of your organisation?
Promote wastewater recycling system citywide in Beijing through public environmental education and communi-cation with construction companies.
How long and in what way you are associated with this organisation?
I founded ‘Wise Use’ one year ago and serve as the Executive Director.
Which key activities of your organisation is/are most interesting to you?
I like working with people, enlightening them, or straightening out differences between them.
Do you think that ICT can be a right
way of developing the youth power
more? If so, why and in what way it can be a reality?
Yes. First and for most, we get connected by using ICTs, that is why we outweigh our parents as they are relatively isolated. When we get connected, opportunities and challenges will come out, and we’ve got to face them and make use of them, thus make us more competitive.
What are the main inspiring factors behind your recent success?
Teamwork. Two heads are better than one and five heads are better than two. We learn from each other since we are different. And because of the differences, we collaborate.
How much encouraged are you after winning this youth award?
Being highlighted more, more responsibility.
How will this award help you in your future initiatives?
I got my idea reinforced and approved.
I want to establish a first-class environmental protection corporation in China, which incorporates the producer of environmental products and the supplier of energy-saving solutions. We will usher in a whole new environmental protection industry in china and construct a new value of environmental business.
value. Youth possess great energy and enthusiasm. Tapping on this, will go a long way to help other youths who are not only less fortunate but also those who are disillusioned.
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