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Dispatch 7.10
December 2007
"HIV/AIDS"

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Welcome to the Dispatch

The new face of HIV/AIDS is undoubtedly global leadership, or more importantly, youth leadership and education. While this epidemic has been ravaging the world's populations for over 20 years now, the efforts that have been made to combat this disease through awareness and effective leadership has been immense. HIV/AIDS will be the featured topic on the TakingITGlobal site this month, and we encourage all of you to visit our Understanding the Issues page for HIV/AIDS.

This section was recently improved with more resources relevant to youth all over the world who are active and engaged in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The struggle against this epidemic is one in which all of you, as youth leaders, will need to be informed and engaged.

The TakingITGlobal Team
dispatch@takingitglobal.org

Featured Country: Malaysia

In December, TakingITGlobal staff and members will travel to Malaysia for the Global Knowledge Partnership's Third Global Knowledge Conference taking place in the capital city, Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia is the founding member of ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Nations), and following rapid economic advances in the last century, is now considered one of the newly industrialized countries of Southeast Asia. Malaysia is very multicultural, with Malay, Chinese, Indian and other ethnic influences. Not only does Malaysia feature modern city-centres but also some of the most beautiful beaches and national parks in the region.

Visit the Malaysia country site to learn more!

Note: We apologize for the misuse of the word 'aboriginal' in reference to the Maori people who are actually New Zealand's indigenous peoples, and its capital city is located on the southern-most tip of the North Island.

Project Stitch Contest

50% of new HIV transmissions take place amongst 15-24 year olds, so we need to connect with each other, empower ourselves and make change. Project Stitch is a youth-focused HIV awareness project brought to you by AIDS Vancouver and YouthCO AIDS Society. The Digital AIDS Quilt is a multi-media collage created by young people. Now 289 pieces strong, this quilt expresses our experience and understanding of HIV's impact. Add your piece to the ever-evolving quilt and you could potentially win a digital camera!

Global Youth Coalition on AIDS

HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today - and young people remain at the center of the epidemic, in terms of infection rates and potential for change. This World AIDS Day, December 1st 2007, members of the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA) are organizing 104 events in 34 countries to highlight the pressing need to build youth leadership and to listen to the voices of young leaders fighting HIV and AIDS in their communities.

Learn more:
http://www.youthaidscoalition.org

YES Fund: ICT Business Plan Competition 2007

Global Fund for Youth Entrepreneurship (YES Fund), a signature initiative of YES Inc. seeks to create markets and unleash entrepreneurship in developing countries by helping young people to identify business opportunities, prepare their business plans and compete for the best ideas. ICT Business Plan Competition for 2007-2008 launched by YES Fund for India and Kenya will support youth entrepreneurs between the age of 18-35 years for setting up new business and expansion of a budding business.

The YES Fund will offer $2000 as Prize money for each Award Winning Business Plan, along with other crucial supports like mentoring by professionals and field Experts, increasing their access to Financial institutions and venture capitalists, links to Innovative Business development services, and enrollment with YES entrepreneurial forum for learning and sharing experiences. To promote Youth Entrepreneurship in ICT sector, align with YES Fund as Screeners and Business Coaches and also refer young people for the Business Plan Contest. Entrepreneurs from Kenya and India, who aspire to start their own ICT Business, could join the present contest to win exciting awards and business development services.

Learn more about the contest here:
www.yesweb.org/fund

Send in your completed application form or the registration form before January 19, 2008 to: yesfund@yesweb.org.

HIV/AIDS: Your Stories

Submit your writing on HIV/AIDS throughout the month of December to the latest Panorama issue: 'HIV/AIDS: Your Stories'.

This special issue is about sharing your personal stories, revelations, and experiences. You don't have to be suffering directly from HIV/AIDS to be affected by this global issue and have a story to share.

Submit here:
https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/nextissue.html

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TakingITGlobal in 2007

2007 has been an exciting and unprecedented year for TakingITGlobal!

TIG was a featured project at the NetSquared Conference, where nonprofits, tech practitioners, innovators, philanthropists and visionaries helped bring 20 promising projects to the next level in social benefit through web tools. At the beginning of the year, Her Excellency the Governor General of Canada became an Honorary Patron of TakingITGlobal, and invited TakingITGlobal's Executive Director Jennifer Corriero to join the offical State Visit to Brazil in July. TIG was also honoured as the Tech Awards' Education Laureate at the Tech Museum's Gala in San Jose. Considered the "Academy Awards" of technology and innovation, the Tech Museum awards recognize the work of leading innovators using technology to benefit humanity. TakingITGlobal's Online Community also began the launch and revamp of several site sections, including Organizations, Commitments, Understanding the Issues, and Petitions. Recently, TIG received an exciting donation from WorldLingo that will allow some of the content on our Online Community to be automatically translated into 10 of our 12 launched languages, and also aid our translators and make our Online Community even more multilingual!

In 2008, TakingITGlobal will be moving forward in revamping other sections of the Online Community such as My TIG, and launching features such as content ranking, allowing our members even greater interaction with the content on the TIG site. TIG will also be involved in various offline projects including World Youth Congress 2008 in Quebec City, and the AIDS Conference in Mexico City.

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 170,000 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

Copyright 2007 TakingITGlobal

The TakingITGlobal Dispatch is the official newsletter of TakingITGlobal, electronically published via email, and compiled from various events and news from within the TakingITGlobal network. Contributions should be sent to dispatch@takingitglobal.org. Please include your full name, age, and your TIG username.