We had a discussion on Youth community's this morning. Terry told a bit on how the Youth Caucus and the YCDO got started and were they are now. She also suggested that (young) people should be updated on documents concerning youth and ICT so that the don't invent the wheel again . We all agreed on that.
One hour later there was a meeting in the same room about the new WSIS-online website. www.wsis-online.net changed things a lot! And I think that it is very important that the Youth Caucus uses this platform.
On the new Wsis-online website it is very easy to find people and events in which you’re interested in. The website has the ability to match your interests on events en people. You can also add your own events, you can upload documents and you can even start a forum concerning your events.
People can subscribe to a newsletter about your event or they can submit that they’ll be at your event. This way you can see who will come at your events and this way you know who is interested in you, your event and/or your organization.
I see great opportunities for the Youth Caucus here. We can sign up as a organization and start posting documents concerning youth and ICT. This way we’ll have a good kind of ‘portal’ for our documents and to events we’re interested in. This way other people will see where we’re at and we’ll see who’s interested in the same topics as we are.
The new website will be finished begin march and will be promoted at Governments, NGO’s and Private sector. I was really impressed by the structure and I recommend that the Youth Caucus will use the website as much as they can.