APEC '97 and Canada's Year of Asia PacificYouth Report

Technology

 

Highlight: Paperless. At the APEC Environment Youth Forum, sheer ingenuity, computer technology, chalkboards and whiteboards replaced paper.

 

Sureerat, exploring new technologies at Asia Connects.

 

 

The Human Resources Development (HRD) Working Group accepted a project proposal created by the Youth Coordination Team and the project became a good example of how technology has been used to link youth throughout the Asia Pacific region. A group of twenty-four youth from fifteen APEC economies worked together, both electronically and in person, to create an electronic source book on work, study and exchange opportunities in the APEC region. This source book is a tool allowing youth to surf the website and to find useful information regarding fifteen of the eighteen economies. The address for this site is:

www.apecsec.org.sg/workgroup/hrdwg/youth.html

In addition to the HRD source book, young people who participated in APEC Energy Week activities are also creating a Canadian chapter for the sourcebook on work and study opportunities within the energy sector for APEC youth.

During the Asia Connects youth conference, leading edge technology was used to hook up sites across Canada through an eleven-point national videoconference during the opening and closing ceremonies. This one conference used various communication technologies to engage more than six hundred youth in the program.

Communication technology has also allowed youth to be recruited for events, to network with other youth and to learn more about the APEC process through email and the internet. Technology was commonly used in varying degrees to coordinate the events across Canada, to facilitate learning at all stages of the event and to create legacy products.

Sureerat, an Asia Connects youth delegate
from Thailand in traditional Akha dress.

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