SEGMENT 4: OPENING NEW AND INNOVATIVE AVENUES FOR YOUTH IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
With an emphasis on expanding and opening civic spaces, a dedicated panel will look at innovations for civic space, with a focus on new actors, tools and processes that can better harness youth power to open up spaces at the national and regional levels. Dedicated break-out sessions will bring together youth participants and a wide variety of activists and practitioners to exchange on campaigning and advocacy tools, as well as technologies and IT solutions to open civic spaces for young people.
Panel session 4.1. Changemakers and innovations to expand civic spaces for youth
Break-out session 4.2.1. From grassroots movements to mass-online campaigns for opening civic spaces for youth – An interactive market place
Background documents
Break-out session 4.2.2. Technology and IT solutions to promote and open spaces for young people
Background documents
With an emphasis on expanding and opening civic spaces, a dedicated panel will look at innovations for civic space, with a focus on new actors, tools and processes that can better harness youth power to open up spaces at the national and regional levels. Dedicated break-out sessions will bring together youth participants and a wide variety of activists and practitioners to exchange on campaigning and advocacy tools, as well as technologies and IT solutions to open civic spaces for young people.
Panel session 4.1. Changemakers and innovations to expand civic spaces for youth
- Background video by Mirinda Boon-Kuo, Greenpeace
- Presentation by Sean O’Connell, UNDP Viet Nam
- Presentation by Shreya Basu, Open Government Partnerships
Break-out session 4.2.1. From grassroots movements to mass-online campaigns for opening civic spaces for youth – An interactive market place
Background documents
- 50 Grassroots Marketing Campaign Examples You Can Steal, CQ Roll Call - Connectivity (2016)
- Community Mobilization, Service and Civic Engagement, Approaches to Community Development and Community-Based Mapping, Village Earth and Duke University (2016)
- Campaigning Tools and Resources, Oxfam GB (2015)
Break-out session 4.2.2. Technology and IT solutions to promote and open spaces for young people
Background documents
- Background document by Hong Phuc Dang, FOSSASIA
- ICTs for Feminist Movement Building: An activist Toolkit, Association for Progressive Communication (2015)
- Integrating Information and Communication Technologies into Communication for Development: Strategies to Support and Empower Marginalized Adolescent Girls, UNICEF (2013)