Last week, I was lucky enough to spend the week organising the Manchester Young Rewired State (YRS) centre. If you haven't heard, YRS is a weeklong "hack event" whereby young coders and developers aged 18 and under gather to build applications from open data. Last year, our Manchester centre was one of four participating YRS teams across the country. This year, we were one of 14!

Hi everyone! I wanted to introduce our entry into the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge for immigrant youth to use technology to improve their public education system in Washington, D.C. I hope that you will consider voting for our project, and good luck to the other 89 contestants! S.M.A.R.T. is the D.C. Language Access Coalition(DCLAC)’s initiative on education and aims to educate, train and empower limited and non-English proficient (LEP/NEP) and ELL (English Language Learner) youth in advocacy, community organizing...

TakingITGlobal and Nabuur Launch New Action Guide on Online Volunteering

*A free digital guide for youth interested in becoming online volunteers and learning more about the rich world of online volunteering.*

TakingITGlobal (TIG), an organization that operates the world’s most popular online community for young leaders, and Nabuur, an online volunteering platform that links Neighbours (online volunteers) with Villages (local communities) in Africa, Asia and Latin America, announced today the release of a new Action Guide on Online Volunteering available for download on the TIG website.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/f49b798beafb70833c4ff053b33ea6fe.htmAFRICA: Tell us more – Children call for sex education 11 Dec 2008 23:43:25 GMT Source: IRINReuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone. DAKAR, 11 December 2008 (IRIN) - Children in sub-Saharan Africa want to know more about sex and how to protect themselves from HIV, but taboos surrounding children's sexuality can mean life-saving information is kept from them, according to an international NGO.

John Carnell,  co-founder and project manager of  BullyingUK, a nonprofit organization working on anti-bulling campaigns in the UK including services for youth, parents and schools, recently took time from the active participation in social media to chat with me about the organization's work.  BullyingUK has incorporated social media tools into communications, fundraising, and community buildling.  Learn more about how they are succeeding in the interview below.

The World Summit Youth Award is a global contest to create inspirational online content promoting the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations to create a humane, just and liveable world. 

"The World Summit Youth Award showcases you as young developers and serves as a platform for people from all UN member states to work together on the efforts of reaching the Millennium Development Goals!"

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With elections and politics consuming news programs and conversations around the world right now, the Democracy Video Challenge asks you to make a short video to finish the sentence, "Democracy is..."

As you know, we’re currently competing in Netsquared’s Mashup Challenge competition with our project, “Assetmap.org/Uganda”

" There are about 50 social networks, and they each have thousands of groups of individuals in these little private circles. It is not like you can send out a blast to everyone on the list and expect them to respond enthusiastically. You really have to do what Jacob Colker did, and go door-to-door--the equivalent of door-to-door online and get to know people, spend some time."