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Latest oneVillage Initiative field reports
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March 29, 2003
CatchITYoung
Project Official Launch!
Winneba, Ghana - West Africa
KAFUI AMENU PREBBIE, Ghana's ICT Youth Ambassador
(2001) for ITU and Country Director, oneVillage Foundation
Ghana, officially launched the CatchITYoung Project.
This event took place in Winneba, Ghana at 9am on
Saturday 29th March, 2003 at the Winneba Secondary
School Assembly Hall.
CatchITYoung is the first pilot project of Information
Technology Clubs in Pre-tertiary African Institutions.
CatchITYoung is consistent with the Continental Digital
Agenda set by the NEPAD programmes, with specific
reference to Information Communication Technology
(ICT), to be managed by the eAfrica Commission.
oneVillage Foundation-Ghana along with other founders
of African
Youth Initiative-AYI (Paradigm
Initiative Nigeria, Go Online Africa) and partners
(TakingITGlobal-Ghana,
Ampex Computer Systems, International Young Professionals
Foundation-Ghana, Young Peace Builders Network, Oprah
Goodwill Foundation-Ghana, Government Ministries,
Departments, Agencies, etc.) are happy to inform you
of the launching of this project.
In attendance were all partners of AYI and the CatchITYoung
Project including Directors of Education and Districts,
Parliamentarians, IT Professionals, Volunteers, approximately
300 Pre-tertiary Students, 40 teachers including Lecturers,
Information Technology Researchers, Media, etc. This
event promises to begin to spin the already "invented
wheel" at an accelerated pace, to achieve the desired
socio-economic development efforts and targets of
the motherland, Africa as set by NEPAD. More details
of the event will be on the oneVillage Foundation
site (http://onevillagefoundation.org/)
soon after the event. The AYI site (http://www.ayintiative.net/)
and other sites of founders and partners will be updated
soon also, including TakingITGlobal-Ghana (http://www.ghana.takingitglobal.org/),
and Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (http://www.pin.itgo/)
sites.
View
Field
report for the CatchITYoung launch
CatchITYoung
project description
Commemorative
letter from the oneVillage Foundation President
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March 20, 2003
Youth represent ARF in African Youth
Parliament
Omuwumi Olumide Obidiran is representing ARF in the
African Youth Parliament (AYP) from March 20 to 29,
2003. Omuwumi is a member of the Global Resource Information
Network that acts as a knowledge resource bank for
the school and the community. It uses ICT a means
of involving the local community in globalisation,
and her personal involvement is well felt in acting
as a bridge between the local community and academia.
She has also volunteered to train youth in the local
community in ICT, at no cost, to enable them to use
their spare time positively. Omuwumi's primary agenda
area is poverty reduction.
Omuwumi is also a member of the following organisations:
- Global
Resource Information Network (GRIN), a Student ICT
Club
- Aids
Relief Foundation
- Teachers
Without Borders
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March 1, 2003
oneVoice portal coming soon...
The oneVillage Foundation's oneVoice™
portal is an Internet platform, now under construction,
for sharing stories with other communities. Stories
can be represented with words, photographs, video
clips, drawings, audio, or any combination of these.
With oneVoice™ you tell your stories
to the world and connect with others of like-mind,
mutual interest, common goal or similar experience...
all based on the stories you tell! There will even
be chances to meet and travel around the world with
those you meet through story sharing!!
oneVoice™ | Let your voice be heard!
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December 01, 2002
World
AIDS Day Celebration
The University Of Education, Winneba (UEW),
Ghana
The programme took place on the campus of The
University Of Education, Winneba (UEW). The theme
for the day was "HIV/AIDS IS REAL, PLAY IT SAFE".
The aim for the celebration as well as choice of place
was to create an awareness of the high prevalence
rate resulting in the rapid increase of the AIDS infected
and affected, yet little knowledge of it to the entire
university community and its environs. Line up of
activities included a dawn broadcast, a sporting activity
and a quiz to climax it.
View
Official
field report
Media
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