Featured Theme: Disability

What do you already know about disability? What are you wanting to learn? On our theme page you will find information and resources on accessibilty, human rights, language, advocacy, and education and employment equity. Plus, a variety of ways to interact with people around the world. Submit artwork,read young people's writing, discuss disability in our discussion boards and try the quiz!

Go to the Disablity Theme page: Click here!

Comments/questions:themes@takingitglobal.org




International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada

In August 2006, Toronto will host the XVI International AIDS Conference (IAC), the largest event of its kind. This landmark event will bring together up to 20,000 participants and 2,500 journalists to share knowledge on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.

The Youth Programme of the AIDS 2006 Host Secretariat and the Toronto YouthForce (of which TakingITGlobal is a member) are actively working to ensure the meaningful participation of youth. For more information go to the Global Youth Coalition on AIDS page.

IMPORTANT DATES and DEADLINES:

- Late breakers submission period: 29 May to 12 June 2006
- Cultural Programme, Global Village application close: 15, March 2006

Please visit www.aids2006.org




Feature: Are you a teacher or student? Check out TIGed!

TIGed is a new set of tools designed specifically for teachers and students to bring TIG into the classroom. TIGed is an online space that you create and control, where your students can interact in a secure and private way while benefiting from the power of the TakingITGlobal.org online community. It is an Activity Database of lesson suggestions submitted and reviewed by other educators from around the world. It is a set of featured projects developed in partnership with other educational organizations. Finally, it is a support tool, giving you access to a community of global educators facing the same challenges as you.

For more information or to sign up, visit www.tiged.org. Use the promotional code TIGDISPATCH for a 25% discount.

Note: Educators interested in serving as beta testers and providing regular feedback over the next twelve months will receive free access to TIGed. Please email education@takingitglobal.org to apply.




"Our World" Youth Survey Needs Your Point of View

The location and date of the next Youth Employment Summit has been announced. Join young people from all over the world in Kenya next September 13-16! The Kenya YES 2006 Summit will focus on identifying markets and building capacity for youth to serve those markets. Visit www.yesweb.org to register and for more information.

We welcome and invite all interested youth to participate!

The Our World survey is quick to complete, and the project is seeking as many responses as possible from youth around the world. TakingITGlobal members are encouraged to participate in this important survey available online in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Chinese, and Swahili at: http://surveys.ourworldgce.net




Is Your Website the Best Internet Project for Youth?

Have your own web-site? Craving to promote it widely? Showcase your work in the 3rd International Festival of Noncommercial Internet Projects run by the Russian Union of Webmasters. Last year TakingITGlobal-Russia won the Festival's first prize in the category "Best Internet Project for Youth."

Submit your application before February 25, 2006. For more details click here: http://events.tigweb.org/8837




Millennium Development Goals: How Are You Helping to Achieve Them?

In April 2005, TakingITGlobal launched its Millennium Development Goals program with an interactive platform for youth to learn more about the Goals and help achieve them with an MDG Youth Campaign Kit. We would love to know what you have done (or are still doing) to help achieve the MDGs. Please send us a brief update on your activities by email to: franziska@takingitglobal.org

If you're received an MDG Youth Campaign Kit from us or downloaded one from our site, please fill out a short survey which will help us to evaluate the Campaign Kit. You can find the survey by visiting the following link: http://surveys.tigweb.org/survey.html?SurveyID=42

[t]This is your chance to help shape future material created by TakingITGlobal and the United Nations Millennium Campaign. Don't miss this opportunity![/t]




MDG Youth Action Guide: Soon in Russian

TakingITGlobal, with kind support from Oxfam GB and United Nations Association of Russia, is now working on developing the Russian version of the Millennium Development Goals Youth Action Guide, a publication educating youth on the MDGs and providing easy-to-follow advice on how to lead your own MDG project. We are hoping to have it printed in March and then distribute the publication among youth action groups, NGOs, and student associations. For further details, feel free to contact Sofya at sofya@takingitglobal.org. The MDG Youth Action Guide is already available in English, French, and Spanish at: http://mdg.tigweb.org.




Next Panorama Issue: Living with Disabilities

Around the world, millions of people are affected by disabilities. Many are living full lives, but persons with disabilities are often forced to the margins of society. The aim of this issue of Panorama is to promote an understanding of disability issues among young people and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities.

Help us present alternate visions of what constitutes disability through the experiences of young people around the globe. We are accepting articles until February 17.

Submit to the Living With Disabilities issue here: https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/content.html?IssueID=65




Featured Country Site: Albania

Do you know what country in South-Eastern Europe is known as the Land of Eagles? Here is a hint: it borders the Adriatic Sea and Ionian Sea and is located between Greece and Serbia and Montenegro. This month, we invite you to explore the country site for Albania and see what Albanian youth are up to. TIG members from Albania can use this opportunity to develop and promote their country site by submitting creative writing pieces, discussing the latest issues, posting updates, and more!

Your destination is: http://albania.tigweb.org




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