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Welcome to the Dispatch
Each month the TakingITGlobal Online Community 'features' a different Issue page in our Understanding the Issues section. Hopefully focusing on a new topic each month has encouraged you to browse content and inform yourself on issues you might not normally seek out. For the month of October the Online Community will be featuring our Sexuality Issue page, which can be a difficult topic to discuss openly, especially where young people are concerned. During the month of August we asked TakingITGlobal members to write about sexuality and why it is important to maintain an ongoing discussion about how it affects our lives, our health, and our rights. The end result is Panorama's 'Dialogue on Sexuality' Issue.
We encourage you to seek out information on sexuality that is relevant to you, keep yourself informed on your sexual rights, and keep the discussion going.
The TakingITGlobal Team
dispatch@takingitglobal.org
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Featured Country: Poland
 Next month the whole world will be turning to Poland, specifically to the city of Poznan, where major world leaders, UN officials, activists, and researchers will gather to continue international discussions and negotiations on Climate Change. Poland is located in Central Europe bordering on the Baltic Sea to the North and became a member of the European Union in 2004. Poland's position at the meeting point of multiple European empires and powerful states has meant that it has been partitioned several times and has also served as a key battleground in multiple wars. This has brought many hardships, of all the countries involved in World War II Poland lost the highest percentage of it's civilian population: over 6 million people. Currently Poland is emerging as a strong and vibrant democratic state, it has been one of several countries to see significant improvements to its economy as a result of EU membership.
Visit the Poland country page on TIG to learn more and browse through contributions made by our Polish members, like graphic artist Bartek!
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Preparing for Poland: A TIG Live Chat
TakingITGlobal's next Live Chat is coming up in November! It will focus on the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland in December and what youth are doing in order to prepare themselves for this important meeting. The Live Chat will take place on Thursday, November 6th 2008 at 2pm (UTC/GMT). Mark the date in your calenders and learn how the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan will affect you, as well as how you can be part of the changes youth will be calling for at the meeting!
Check out the event on TIG here.
The World Summit Youth Award 2009
The World Summit Youth Award invites young designers and e-Content creators to participate in an international competition. Submit e-Content that addresses the UN Millennium Development Goals in an inspiring manner and which uses internet and mobile content to create awareness of the MDGs.
Learn more and enter the contest here.
Youth Media Exchange is hosting a video contest!
What does democracy mean to you? Youth Media Exchange (ymex.org) is one of the hosts of the Democracy Video Challenge, which asks youth to make a short video that finishes the sentence 'Democracy Is ...' This is an international competition and winners will be selected from each major region of the world!
Learn more on ymex.org.
Contribute on TIG this month
December 10th, 2008 will mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. TakingITGlobal, in partnership with CASHRA, has launched a Featured Theme page for the anniversary and we are looking for your creative contributions! Share your artistic expressions on human rights in the Global Gallery collection and celebrate the ongoing advancement of human rights worldwide.
Contribute your art to this collection.
On October 15th bloggers all over the world will dedicate their posts to one important topic: poverty. This is Blog Action Day, a massive online movement to use the growing popularity and power of blogging to bring attention to important global issues. Last year over 20,000 bloggers participated and blogged about The Environment. Blog about poverty and join the movement!
Join the event on TIG.
Thank you to our Virtual Volunteers!
 TakingITGlobal would like to take this opportunity to give a big Thank You to our virtual volunteers! There are dozens of people working throughout the Online Community on a volunteer basis and in multiple languages: French, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Swahili, Farsi, Bengali, and of course English! These volunteers moderate, review, and approve your content and keep the Online Community safe, open and up-to-date with opportunities and information for you. Without a dedicated team of people willing to donate their time and energies towards the running of the site TIG wouldn't be able to grow - now at over 200,000 members!
If you are interested in joining our team of virtual volunteers positions are available. Learn more and apply here.
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 200,000 strong coming from over 250 countries and territories. Thank you for having a vision of positive change. Your work makes a difference!
In friendship,
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