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Welcome to the Dispatch
The new face of HIV/AIDS is undoubtedly global
leadership, or more importantly, youth leadership and education. While
this epidemic has been ravaging the world's populations for over 20 years
now, the efforts that have been made to combat this disease through
awareness and effective leadership has been immense. HIV/AIDS will be the
featured topic on the TakingITGlobal site this month, and we encourage
all of you to visit our Understanding the Issues page
for HIV/AIDS.
This section was recently improved with more
resources relevant to youth all over the world who are active and engaged
in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The struggle against this epidemic is one
in which all of you, as youth leaders, will need to be informed and
engaged.
The TakingITGlobal Team
dispatch@takingitglobal.org
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Featured Country: Malaysia
 In December, TakingITGlobal staff and members will travel to
Malaysia for the Global Knowledge Partnership's Third Global Knowledge
Conference taking place in the capital city, Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia is
the founding member of ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Nations), and
following rapid economic advances in the last century, is now considered
one of the newly industrialized countries of Southeast Asia. Malaysia is
very multicultural, with Malay, Chinese, Indian and other ethnic
influences. Not only does Malaysia feature modern city-centres but also
some of the most beautiful beaches and national parks in the region.
Visit the Malaysia country site
to learn more!
Note: We apologize for the misuse of the word
'aboriginal' in reference to the Maori people who are actually New
Zealand's indigenous peoples, and its capital city is located on the
southern-most tip of the North Island.
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Project
Stitch Contest
 50% of new HIV transmissions take place amongst 15-24 year olds, so
we need to connect with each other, empower ourselves and make change.
Project Stitch is a youth-focused HIV awareness project brought to you by
AIDS Vancouver and YouthCO AIDS Society. The Digital AIDS Quilt is a
multi-media collage created by young people. Now 289 pieces strong, this
quilt expresses our experience and understanding of HIV's impact. Add your piece to the
ever-evolving quilt and you could potentially win a digital
camera!
Global
Youth Coalition on AIDS
 HIV/AIDS is one of the
greatest challenges facing the world today - and young people remain at the
center of the epidemic, in terms of infection rates and potential for
change. This World AIDS Day, December 1st 2007, members of the Global Youth
Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA) are organizing 104 events in 34 countries to
highlight the pressing need to build youth leadership and to listen to the
voices of young leaders fighting HIV and AIDS in their communities.
Learn more:
http://www.youthaidscoalition.org
YES
Fund: ICT Business Plan Competition 2007
 Global Fund for Youth
Entrepreneurship (YES Fund), a signature initiative of YES Inc. seeks to
create markets and unleash entrepreneurship in developing countries by
helping young people to identify business opportunities, prepare their
business plans and compete for the best ideas. ICT Business Plan
Competition for 2007-2008 launched by YES Fund for India and Kenya will
support youth entrepreneurs between the age of 18-35 years for setting up
new business and expansion of a budding business.
The YES Fund will offer $2000 as Prize money for each
Award Winning Business Plan, along with other crucial supports like
mentoring by professionals and field Experts, increasing their access to
Financial institutions and venture capitalists, links to Innovative Business
development services, and enrollment with YES entrepreneurial forum for
learning and sharing experiences. To promote Youth Entrepreneurship in ICT
sector, align with YES Fund as Screeners and Business Coaches and also
refer young people for the Business Plan Contest. Entrepreneurs from Kenya
and India, who aspire to start their own ICT Business, could join the
present contest to win exciting awards and business development services.
Learn more about the contest here:
www.yesweb.org/fund
Send in your completed application form or the
registration form before January 19, 2008 to: yesfund@yesweb.org.
HIV/AIDS:
Your Stories
 Submit your writing on HIV/AIDS throughout the month of December to
the latest Panorama issue: 'HIV/AIDS: Your Stories'.
This special issue is about sharing your personal
stories, revelations, and experiences. You don't have to be suffering
directly from HIV/AIDS to be affected by this global issue and have a story
to share.
Submit here:
http://en.takingitglobal.org/express/panorama/nextissue.html
TakingITGlobal
in 2007
 2007 has been an exciting and
unprecedented year for TakingITGlobal!
TIG was a featured project at the NetSquared
Conference, where nonprofits, tech practitioners, innovators,
philanthropists and visionaries helped bring 20 promising projects to the
next level in social benefit through web tools. At the beginning of the
year, Her Excellency the Governor General of Canada became an Honorary
Patron of TakingITGlobal, and invited TakingITGlobal's Executive Director
Jennifer Corriero to join the offical State Visit to Brazil in July. TIG
was also honoured as the Tech Awards' Education Laureate at the Tech
Museum's Gala in San Jose. Considered the "Academy Awards" of
technology and innovation, the Tech Museum awards recognize the work of
leading innovators using technology to benefit humanity. TakingITGlobal's
Online Community also began the launch and revamp of several site sections,
including Organizations, Commitments, Understanding the Issues, and
Petitions. Recently, TIG received an exciting donation from WorldLingo that
will allow some of the content on our Online Community to be automatically
translated into 10 of our 12 launched languages, and also aid our
translators and make our Online Community even more multilingual!
In 2008, TakingITGlobal will be moving forward in
revamping other sections of the Online Community such as My TIG, and
launching features such as content ranking, allowing our members even
greater interaction with the content on the TIG site. TIG will also be
involved in various offline projects including World Youth Congress 2008 in
Quebec City, and the AIDS Conference in Mexico City.
Wrap Up
Your interest, support and involvement with TakingITGlobal helps our
community to grow and encourage more young people to become inspired,
informed and involved everyday! In being a member of TakingITGlobal, you
are part of a community that is 170,000 strong coming from over 250
countries and territories. Thank you for having a vision of positive
change. Your work makes a difference!
In friendship,
The TakingITGlobal Team
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