DEADLINE 15 July - World Summit Youth Award 2011 - Using New Media for Good!

World Summit Youth Award 2011
Using New Media for Good!

Do you use social media to do good for your community and for your own future? Do you use blogs and vlogs to raise critical questions? Do you create websites or mobile apps that fight discrimination, hunger or diseases?

If yes, take your chance to show that you are at home in digital and social media and know how to bring about positive development, be it in your neighbourhood or in another country: Submit your new media project to the World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) and win the chance to meet engaged Youth from around the world and network with representatives of NGOs, governments and media!

The WSYA is an annual award and a network for young people, under 30 years of age, using the internet, mobile phones or other digital media to put the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into action. The MDGs were set in 2000 by the UN to prompt member states and civil society to fight poverty, hunger and disease, inequalities, lack of education and environmental degradation.

Starting today, May, 2nd, and until July, 15th, you can submit your product to this international competition in one of the six WSYA categories:

1. Fight Poverty, Hunger and Disease !
2. Education for All !
3. Power 2 Women !
4. Create your Culture !
5. Go Green !
6. Pursue Truth !

Three winners and two runners-up for each category will be selected by an international jury of young ICT experts. They will evaluate the projects in two rounds of online judging.

Being a WSYA Winner, your project will be elevated to a new level. All winners will be invited to the WSYA 2011 Winners’ Events in Skopje.

This is where they will have the chance to present their projects on a world stage. Aside from the award ceremony, meetings, discussion rounds and workshops will provide the space to exchange ideas and make friends with engaged youth from all continents. Representatives of governments, NGOs, media and other renowned experts in the field of ICT for Development will take part in these events and be available to the winners.

This is a unique chance to boost your project by getting access to the WSYA network. The Youth Award network offers you the possibility to develop your project, refine your business plan or even find sponsors.

For further information, visit WSYA website here