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August 13, 2001 Global Nomads Group (GNG) teams with youth organizations to conduct media pilot project at the United Nations Special Session on Children New York (August 13, 2001) -- Global Nomads Group (GNG) has joined a consortium of youth organizations to set up YoungPRESS (Young People Reporting Everything at the Special Session), a pilot project designed to offer youth-run media unequalled participation and access to the United Nations Special Session on Children (UNSSOC). This unique project will be the fruit of collaboration spanning over a dozen organizations in 4 continents and is designed to set a precedent in collaboration between youth media groups. The project will run for the duration of the Special Session, 19-21 September. The YoungPRESS Team will involve a group of approximately 130 young journalists representing over 20 countries, working at the event and in their local communities. Using the YoungPRESS international youth media channels, which span from print media to television and radio, these youths will be able to provide their peers with a first-hand account of the conference's proceedings. They will produce video clips, articles, and sound bites for distribution across the world. Thirty reporters will be covering the Children's Forum and the Special Session in New York, while the remaining one hundred will participate remotely via videoconferencing and the Internet. In addition to being on the Steering Committee that overlooks the project, GNG will set up the videoconferencing framework to allow youth journalists based in twenty countries to interview delegates at the UN Special Session and each other remotely. Thus, these activities directly support the mission of GNG to provide a framework for cross-cultural learning. "We are proud to play an important part in enabling those most affected by the Special Session to speak directly with decision makers at the conference, " said Kamal El-Wattar, Director of Operations, GNG. "We believe the collaborative pilot project will form an organizational model to cover many more events like the Special Session. This will repeatedly enable collective youth media to produce more than the sum of their parts, learn about each other in the process, and share across the platform to create wider global distribution than individually possible." About Young PRESS Initiated by Nation1 director Nick Moraitis, YoungPRESS is an experimental pilot project designed to provide a model for strengthening young people's participation in media and future collaboration among youth-based and adult media. The pilot seeks to harness an unprecedented historical event dedicated to bettering the lives of children by empowering the constituency being addressed through the use of new and old technologies. Overall co-ordination of the project is handled by a Steering Committee, which is comprised of youth and adults based in New York and Geneva. The committee is composed of principals from Nation1, Young Media Partners, Global Nomads Group, as well as an independent consultant. About the United Nations Special Session on Children The United Nations General Assembly is holding a Special Session on Children (SSOC) from 19-21 September in New York. The SSOC is the culmination of a decade-long process following the historic adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the First World Summit for Children in 1990. Heads of government will convene to assess progress made on children's human rights and finalize a new action plan known as "A World Fit for Children." Over 70 heads of state and world leaders are expected to attend alongside some 2,000 pioneers, leaders of non-governmental organizations and young people. |
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