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The MISK Global Forum [MGF] welcomed a Generation Connect delegation to the Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 9-10 November 2022. Under the theme of ‘Generation Transformation’, the Forum hosted more than 120 different events, activities, and dialogues over a two-day programme, encouraging transformative sustainable impact on an individual basis, on the community level, and for the world at large.

Members of the Generation Connect Visionaries Board and Generation Connect Youth Envoys had the opportunity to actively engage and participate in this intergenerational Forum. On the final day of the Forum, the Generation Connect delegation had the opportunity to meet with ITU Secretary General Doreen Bogdan-Martin and share their experiences with her, underscoring the importance of meaningful youth engagement for digital development. Read the highlights and reflections of the Generation Connect delegation to learn more about the impact of this event.

As part of the design phase for the ITU International Centre of Digital Innovation (I-CoDI), a challenge use case focused on Youth. During the I-CoDI Youth Challenge week (Nov. 16-21, 2020) 7 hybrid teams of internal ITU staff and external youth experts came together across 10+ time-zones to develop solutions to the challenge question:  ‘How can the ITU communicate effectively with and for youth?’

The Futurecasters Global Young Visionaries Summit (Geneva, 8-10 January 2020) was hosted and co- organized by ITU and the Model UN programme of Ferney-Voltaire, France.