Finding
This task force ensures that younger people (under 25) are engaged with the World Economic Forum in shaping the future in a participatory process that will diversify inputs and ideas generated across civil society while cultivating intergenerational leadership.
YGL Response
The Youth Effect turned into a book for decision makers.
Key 2010 Accomplishments
Our timeline had been focused and detailed over 2010 and we successfully met our milestones with the pre-launch in Dubai at the Summit on the Global Agenda.
Next Milestones
1. Media Push. Organize a global media push through WEF/YGL platform. For example, for the broader Americas I had envisioned organizing a series of interviews with the authors that could be disseminated in different media platforms. We could organize one for Europe and Asia as well. The good news is that the toolkit has authors from every region and thus can be used as a foundation for this media campaign.
2. YGL/Regional WEF Meetings. David sent today the various events we will have as a community in 2011 which is quite exciting in terms of reach. We could have a session at each of the YGL forums to discuss the ideas/suggestions generated around the main discussion points presented in the toolkit
3. Disseminate Solutions. As we discuss during the year the different topics, we would like to populate the website with the different conclusions/ideas/initiatives so its a live project that continues to evolve and does not end with the effort done this year.
Leadership
Jennifer Corriero, Irene Tinagli, David Jones, Penny Low, Honorable Scott Brison, Juan Mario Laserna, HRH Crown Prince Haakon, Wilmot Allen, Alfredo Capote, Josh Spear, Lucian Tarnowski, Adrian Cheok, Bhavneet Singh, Jennifer Corriero, Yair Goldfinger, Teresa Kennedy,
Lorna Solis, Kingsley Bangwell, Carolina Müller-Möhl, Ángel Cabrera, Javier Garcia, Alberto Vollmer, Nancy Lublin
More Information:
Youth Effect Website
3 Comments
Anonymous
Posted January 18th
Wonderful work. Jennifer and team should be proud.
David Aikman
Posted January 22nd
Great effort! It’s amazing to see the feedback from 20 countries. This could become a model for how other organisations reach out to include the voice of youth into policy-formulation and decision-making. Please can you post your report on line here? I especially liked the suggestion to create new Youth Ministries in governments around the world…
david jones
Posted January 27th
this is a unique generation of young people – the digital revolution has given them unlimited access to information and knowledge and unprecedented power to influence and effect change – if the world’s leaders can’t make the right decisions then maybe the world’s young people can help them – and anything we can do to encourage that has to be good