GLOBAL YOUTH COUNCIL
If you have facebook, you can see the Global Youth Council's facebook profiles. Click on the map below.
What's the Global Youth Council about?
The Global Youth Council involves a number of international youth groups from all continents. The Council is coordinated by Karlstad Youth Council,
a group of six young students who are interested in United Nation’s Child Convention, article 17 about mass media, and how to bring forward perspectives
and interest from children and youth. The Global Youth Council will work together towards a new recommendations, to be processed and presented at the
World Summit 2010.
They will discuss different topics about the media situation in the world, for example what it looks like today in the different continents and
how the different Youth Councils would like it to be in the future. It will be an interesting project and you will be regularly updated about the young
students’ thoughts and ideas about the mass media. In the column to the right, you will find the questions being discussed and the answers, as pdf-files.
Sessions during the Summit
The work will continue during the Summit as mentioned above. The Global Youth Council has sessions in the World Summit programme called "Youth moving
youth policies forward". The sessions will be coordinated by Susana Giner from Institute for Global Ethics, UK and Linda Raftree from Plan International,
USA. There will be 4 sessions of 1,5 hours each, designed by young people and facilitated by young people for young people. Examples of the aims of the
sessions are:
Identify issues around the representation of young people in the media - a global perspective
Identify the challenges that young people and the edia face in trying to show a positive image of young people
Look at solutions to the challenges young people and the media face
Draft recommendations for the media to reconnect with young people
Create an action plan for the future, for individual countries and also as the Global Youth Council
The Young people will also have a chance to meet journalists during the Ander Foundation Journalism Seminar Wednesday June 16 and represantatives from the
Media Industry during the Media Industry day Thursday June 17.
What happens after the World Summit 2010?
Through a World Café protocol, a 12 month action plan for the Global Youth Council will be created. The recommendations being made and presented during the
World Summit Closing ceremony will be implemented in individual countries and taking on a solution action plan and present back to the group.
Responsibilities for the Global Youth Councils
The responsibilities for the Global Youth Coordinator are:
Put together a group of young people and send a list of e-mail addresses to info@wskarlstad2010.se
Send a group photo with names to be published at wskarlstad2010.se as a presentation of the group
Organise group meetings where you discuss different subjects connected to the three main questions:
-How are children and youth represented in the media?
-How do you want children and youth to be represented?
-How can the vision of a better media world be reached as you see it?
Please note that the language being used in this project is English, so please make sure that someone in the group is able to report and write in English.
The responsibilities for the Global Youth Council members are:
participate in group discussions and chat on the three main questions.
The responsibilities for the Karlstad Youth Council are:
Present a number of questions and themes regarding children and youth in media.
Send discussion summaries to World Summit project management to be published as news at wskarlstad2010.se
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NEWS FROM G.Y.C.
Questions and answers
Below you will find five of the questions which has been discussed on facebook and the answers from different youth councils.
Question no 1 (pdf)
Question no 2 (pdf)
Question no 3 (pdf)
Question no 4 (pdf)
Question no 5 (pdf)
Australia videos
Australia Youth Council made two videos as comments on young people’s relationship with the media in Australia. The videos are available at Australia
Youth Council’s facebook profile: klick on the pictures below and check the videos out!
Portray youth positively
This video was made by Danica, Ellinor and Amy. It is a comment on young people's relationship with the media in Australia.
The video was made for an Australia Youth Council workshop on May 29th and 30th, 2009. It was presented to delegates at the Australian Teachers of
Media Conference. The students screened the video and answered questions from the audience.
The media repressing your kids
This video was made by Matt, Max and Ricquel. It is a comment on young people's relationship with the media in Australia. The video was made for a
Australia Youth Council workshop on May 29th and 30th, 2009. It was presented to delegates at the Australian Teachers of Media Conference.
The students screened the video and answered questions from the audience.
First question discussed
The first question is being discussed right now on facebook. Question no 1 is: "What kind of national and international sources for information and
material do you have access to in your country/region and how are children and youth represented in these sources?"
Recent members in GYC
Australia, Cambodia, Colombia, Egypt, Gambia, India, Ireland, Italy, Nigeria, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden and Zambia are now members within the Global Youth
Council.
Karlstad Youth Council has started the work and invitations to join the Global Youth Council are sent to different cities all around the world.
A chatforum and a group is being made where the young students will discuss and express their thoughts and ideas about the mass media.
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