Youth Forum on Community and Sustainability

May-June 1997

What's it all about?

Program Overview

Objectives | Eligibility | Outcomes | Program Structure

 

Objectives:

* draft recommendations by young people to be given to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Environment Ministers meeting (June 9-11, 1997)

* enhance awareness of sustainable activities within communities

* explore the impact of urbanization on the environment

* use the internet and world wide web technology to create links between youth in Canada and around the world

 

Eligibility:

* Youth 15 to 25 years old, resident in Canada, are eligible for a trip to Toronto, for the Environment Ministers' Meeting. Other participating APEC Economies will be bringing their own youth representatives.

* Access to a computer with modem and internet access is required for participation in the discussion forums and in order to follow the program on the internet.

* Canadian participants will be selected based on their participation in the web chats and electronic discussion forums.

 

Outcomes:

* an internet trained group of young people that are comfortable doing research and discussing issues on the web

* a model for paperless, information-driven conference

* a by youth for youth resource created to educate young people on sustainability and urbanization and the combined impact on the environment.

 

Program Structure:

1. Each week will have a Connect to Communities topic for which the team at TG Magazine will create background materials like feature articles, case studies, maps and graphs.

2. The background information will be available each Monday at 10:00 am. Throughout the week, participants are able to comment, submit articles or ask questions via the Discussion Forum

3. At the end of each week, on Friday afternoons, there will be a scheduled

Live Chat discussion in which participants will discuss questions related to the topic of the week.

4. For each scheduled discussion, there will be a youth resource person that will answer questions. The biographies of resource people will be part of the background information posted each Monday.

5. The webchat will be posted to the TG Magazine web site at the end of the day.

6. The TG Magazine team will draw from the discussions and the submissions of the week to draft overall recommendations that will serve as the basis for discussion at the live youth forum in Toronto in June

 

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