New Feature: TIG Podcasts!

Now you can literally speak your mind & listen to the voices of young people from around the world through TakingITGlobal podcasts, our new audio services. ("Podcasts" are short audio programs and segments which you can listen to online, or download to your iPod or other audio player.)

First, you can now upload audio "Podblogs" to your Blogs - simply choose "Upload Audio" when adding a post. If you haven't yet started a TIG Blog to share your thoughts, photos, and now voice - start today!

Add your voice! - Click here


Second, we're launching our own official monthly TIG Podcast Programs, as well as shorter regular segments for subscription. These will bring together some featured member podblogs, our own interviews, and the work of young radio broadcasters from around the world. Our goal is that TIG podcasts will provide a new and compelling audio window on the way global issues, daily news, and cultural change affects the lives of young people from Nepal to Ukraine, Sri Lanka to Canada.

Listen and Subscribe now!


Report on National Youth Councils

From the Scouts to sports groups, political youth organizations, to environmental clubs, youth activities in many countries are coordinated by National Youth Councils. Over the past months, TakingITGlobal with support of the McConnell Family Foundation has conducted an international research looking at their creation, evolution, purpose and structures.

If you'd like to learn more about the research & National Youth Council, listen to the TIG Podcast with the authors Franziska Seel and Clarisse Kehler Siebert, as well as Lief Holmberg of the European Youth Forum.http://podcasts.tigweb.org/nationalyouthcouncils


And download for the full report with detailed recommendations to strengthen (& start new) national youth councils: http://research.tigweb.org/nationalyouthcouncils


Toronto AIDS Conference: Youth Website Launched

The official youth website (created by TakingITGlobal) for the Toronto International AIDS Conference is now live, showcasing all the youth activities planned. Visit the site regularly as it will be updated with expanded French and Spanish sections, discussion forums, video and audio casts and more interactive features.

Visit: http://youth.aids2006.org/


What's new with TIG & Education (new activities database & health projects)

We've added exciting new ways to bring TakingITGlobal to the students and educators in your community...

The TIGed Activities Database now includes links to the McREL curriculum benchmarks. Search for lessons and submit your own ideas!

Learn about the global issues surrounding the tobacco industry - play the latest TIG game and create your own classroom: www.tiged.org/tobacco

Also now available, the TIG Xpress resource guide for teachers - lessons and activities on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Teachers can manage the registration process for their students,
no e-mail addresses needed.

Visit http://www.tiged.org to learn more.


Youth "Raising Their Voices" for the Millennium Development Goals

Over the past year, TakingITGlobal members from Cambodia to Zambia, Uruguay to the Pacific Islands, have spread the word about the importance of the Millennium Development Goals on poverty reduction, and have taken them to their local communities.

In its latest publication, TakingITGlobal raises the voices of these young people to show the international community, that with adequate support, resources and empowerment, young people can constitute the critical mass that is needed to drive and lead the changes that need to happen if the Goals are to be achieved by 2015.

Download a copy of the publication, if you want to find inspiration and examples of activities that you could replicate in your community and use our MDG Action Blogs to report us about your own MDG activities!

Grab your copy here: http://research.tigweb.org/TIGMDG.pdf


New issue of TIG Magazine - Language as Violence, Violence as Language

TakingITGlobal, in partnership with UNESCO, has produced a special issue of TIG Magazine entitled "Language as Violence, Violence as Language". Available in English and French, this issue features writing and artwork exploring the idea that violence is a social, economic, cultural and political issue that is instilled in language.

Download it at: https://www.tigweb.org/express/magazine/


Featured Country Site: Cuba

This month's featured country site is Cuba, with its pearly white beaches and palm trees, its world-famous rum and the well-guarded secret of cigars manufacture. Cuba is a multiracial society with a population of mainly Spanish and African origins, its largest religious denomination the Roman-Catholic church. The very name Cuba comes from the Taino word cubanacán, meaning a centre or central place, a constant reminder of the many indigenous influences that survive to this day. Cuba's largest Island (after 'Cuba' itself) is now known as the "Isla de la Juventud" (or "Isle of Youth"), but was previously famous as "Treasure Island". Our approximately 30 Cuban members include active volunteers, technologists, and keen observers of politics.

Visit: http://cuba.tigweb.org to learn more.

Wrap Up

Your interest, support and involvement with TakingITGlobal helps our community to grow and encourage more young people to become inspired, informed and involved everyday! In being a member of TakingITGlobal, you are part of a community that is 100,000 strong coming from over 250 countries and territories. Thank you for having a vision of positive change. Your work makes a difference!

In friendship,

The TakingITGlobal Team