Dear Friends,
We are inviting you to the Education for Youth
and Employment discussion forum being run by the OneWorld South Asia's
LearningChannel.Org at http://www.dgroups.org/groups/education
You are welcome to join in this global forum comprising members from over
140 countries and representing youth, members from government and non
government organizations, civil society members, participants from chambers
of commerce and so on debating and discussing on the questions like:
Is education sensitive to the needs and aspirations of the youth?
Is it geared towards preparing them for livelihoods and for becoming
responsible citizens
of society?
What are the challenges and how best can these be overcome?
This forum is being run in association with the Hyderabad YES Regional
Forum,
Hyderabad, India, 14-18 December 2003 (
http://www.yesweb.org/hyderabad/index.html) as part of the global Youth
Employment Summit or YES Campaign (http://www.yesweb.org) - launched by
1600
delegates from 120 countries at the Alexandria Youth Employment Summit, in
Egypt on September 11, 2002.
With only a few weeks to go the YES Hyderabad open session where the
education, youth and employment mailing list output will be taken up for
discussion; we once again return to the underlying
theme of our discussion over past 5 months; that of youth
unemployment.There
is still a lot more to discuss and you are welcome to send in your views to
this discussion forum; where they still can be incorporated to the
discussion agenda at the YES Hyderabad Forum.
The Open Session shall focus among other issues on being discussed
currently
on the effect of ICT on education and employment for the youth. While
continuing on the current discussion on "Education & ICT Policy", let us
focus on specific areas of this broad theme. The focus shall be obviously
related to the main discussion agenda of the forum, but the specific focus
is aimed towards achieving concrete exchange of opinions among members. As
you know, the resulting discussion out of this process shall be presented
in
the upcoming YES Regional Forum,Hyderabad,14-18 December 2003.
In the next few weeks, we are going to deliberate over few specific themes
on "Education & ICT Policy" and the resulting outcome shall be presented in
the Open Session.
The theme of the First Week (November 20-25,2003)
Effects of information society:
Are ICTs detrimental to youth employment - myth and reality?
Is the present education system compatible to the coming information
society, especially in
developing countries?
What should be done for the renewal of education systems?
We invite you to send your comments on:
1.Your views on the effects of ICTs on youth employment
2.How particularly ICTs are affecting youth employment in your societies?
Is
the effect positive or negative? What is your experience?
3. How the revamping of current education system is needful with the
emergence of ICTs?
The coming of information age is a reality. Information and communication
technologies are pervading all aspects of life. In one way, it provides
unique opportunity in enhancing the quality of life, building of democratic
and open societies, and unearthing new ways of communicating. Information
and knowledge has been valued as the key resource to be exploited for the
betterment of lives today for individuals and societies.
While ICTs are the building block of the many societies, especially in
developed countries,many
accuse that they pose serious threat to employment. There are cases where
this holds truth. At the same time, ICTs are providing employment to a
large
number of youth population in many societies as well. So what is the actual
situation? What are the opportunities for youth employment with ICTs?What
are the drawbacks for the gainful youth employment with the emergence
of information society?
As we go on finding and answering these basic questions, we hope something
positive may come up. Your participation and contribution to the discussion
is very vital to its
success and it is more important as the resulting process shall be
presented at the Open Session. We will love to see you at the discussion
forum and in the Open Session as well.
Joining Instructions:
This list is a project of OneWorld's LearningChannel.org
(www.learningchannel.org).
For the archives of this discussion, visit:
http://www.dgroups.org/groups/education/
To join the list, send a blank message to: join-education@dgroups.org
Help:
Atanu Garai, Moderator : atanu@takingitglobal.org
Geeta Sharma, Editor,LearningChannel: geeta.sharma@oneworld.net
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