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Global Youth Summit: BYND
2015
Crowdsourcing the Summit outcomes – initial tools announced
Geneva, 11 July, 2013 – The
BYND2015 Global Youth Summit
will mobilize youth to join forces and create solutions for social good, enabled
through widespread access to information and communication technologies (ICTs).
Young people are pioneering the use of new technologies, and driving trends in
what is a dynamic and major growth industry. The good news is they are using
ICTs, the challenge is to inspire use of ICTs in constructive and empowering
ways. The BYND2015 Summit will bring young people together – online and offline
– who are helping their world through technology, to inspire and challenge one
another, and mobilize others to do the same.
A key attraction to the BYND2015 Summit is the innovative platform it provides
for youth to speak to world leaders about their priorities for the ICT sector. A
major outcome of the event will be developed around a short policy statement
which captures the key issues and recommendations as identified by a worldwide
community of young people. To help source these from a representative and
diverse group, the summit will make use of several innovative crowd management
and analytical tools which go live in beta version today.
ITU
is
working with
Google, Crowdicity and Ripple
to
provide a seamless user
experience for participants engaging with the BYND2015 Summit tools in a process
spanning between 10 July and the September event. Overall community platform
will happen through a
Google+ community
serving as the online location for attendees to connect and to create and share
content in the run up to BYND2015 in September.
Specific challenges on the themes of the Summit will be explored on a
Crowdicity platform,
which facilitates advanced feedback which sees users polled on and critiquing
others’ ideas through a series of phases until just before the event. To help
measure the online conversation and ensure a truly global perspective across
multiple platforms,
Ripple
will provide unique analytics and metrics on the key issues being discussed and
top trending discussions across the entire web.
BYND2015
Summit participants will thus be provided with live updates as well as real time
analytics on the nature of the debate in the run-up, and will have the
opportunity to drive a truly global discussion around the issues. This will be
used as input to frame dialogue and workshops onsite, where additional
brainstorming and polling will see a final set of priorities crowd-sourced and
decided upon, and ultimately delivered to the United Nations General Assembly by
the President of Costa Rica – Laura Chinchilla – in late September.
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What:
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Crowdsourcing the BYND 2015 Summit outcomes
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When:
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10 July – 11 September
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Where:
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Online:
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Why:
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The chance to speak to young people from around
the world on what technology means in their
day-to-day lives and how it will shape their
future, and the opportunity to meet with special
guest speakers and prominent ICT- and
youth-oriented partner organizations.
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Who:
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An online community of young people mobilized
through BYND 2015 Summit partners.
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Media Information
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For accreditation inquiries see below.
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For more
information, please visit
www.itu.int/en/bynd2015
or contact:
Sanjay Acharya
Chief, Media Relations and Public Information, ITU
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Media accreditations enquiries:
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Soraya Abino Quintana
ITU Media Accreditation
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