3. solutions for youth communication
1 Our Mission
2 Voices of Youth
3 Connecting Classrooms
4 Unite for Climate
5 Youth Led Digital Mapping
6 Digital Citizenship and Safety
7 World Cup in my Village
8 Haiti Project
11. youth-powered solutions
While the online community has served as the centerpiece of the programme, Unite
for Climate has also linked environmental students with NGO groups in the field,
created the YouTube Youth Climate Debate channel to engage young people from
around the world on the issue, and worked with the World Association of Girl Guides
and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM)
to enable remote participation of young people in conferences.
During the COP16 conference, Unite for Climate partnered with WAGGGS, the British
Council (BC) and the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA) to pilot a new
model of virtual engagement leveraging a network of regional facilitators spread
out around the world. Through a series of mini engagement activities run locally in
their country, the facilitators involved their peers and communities around the same
themes of the conference, then relaying their voices to our team on the ground in
Cancun.
Throughout its two years of existence, Unite for Climate has evolved into an umbrella
programme under which many of UNICEF’s local youth climate change actions
come together. Zambia has been leading the way in establishing a national Unite For
Climate programme.
Outcomes
A growing community with 3,000 Access to local climate-based
members from 160 countries globally, actions, thanks to more than 50
and a Facebook page with 2,500 fans partnerships with international
organizations, corporate and
SMS campaigns with over 70,000 academic institutions, and NGOs
respondents in seven African
countries in the summer of 2009 Over 1,000 young people trained on
using ICT and social networking to
support their work
Links
www.uniteforclimate.org
15. research • media literacy • advocacy
Outcomes
1
An exploratory study that was released in June 2010
by Berkman Center for Internet and Society:
Raises awareness about issues Outlines the contours of a
related to digital safety for youth research framework through a
in developing nations series of working hypotheses
2 An in-depth study is currently being developed with:
The design of a digital community A focus on a range of digitally-relevant
that would protect children and developing countries in order to map
youth online around the concept of its digital reality
Digital Citizenship
3 Campaigns/mobilizations:
A communication strategy will be UNICEF will foster a self-sustaining
developed locally to include digital movement on the optimum and
awareness and participation as a safe use of ICTs by mobilizing
priority in the countries targeted different segments of society (local
organizations, local educational
institution, local youth, parents as well
as private actors)
Links
cyber.law.harvard.edu
cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2010/Digital_
Safety_Children_Young_People_Developing_Nations
17. child-friendly innovation • equity • education
Outcomes
Increased awareness of key UNICEF Stronger reporting skills for
messages relating to HIV and AIDS, WCIMV-trained youth journalists,
child rights, gender equity, and helping to build local capacity
education for participating young
people and adults Increased youth engagement and
participation via media trainings
A total audience of roughly 37,000 designed to empower young people
adults and young people to share their perspectives online
and in coordination with their local
community radio stations
Links
Video: www.youtube.com/unicefworldcup#p/a/u/0/ki2SpoaK7YE
Blogs: www.voicesofyouth.org & www.childrensradiofoundation.org/blog