Children and Youth

A Global Summit about
Mobile Technology for Social Impact
October 13-15, 2008
Johannesburg, South Africa

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Wireless Technology for Social Change

Read the new report on trends in mobile use by NGOs:

Wireless Technology for Social Change.

The report was commissioned by the UN Foundation/Vodafone Group Foundation Partnership and written by Katrin Verclas and Sheila Kinkade.

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SET - Sex-Ed Text

file under:
aids, Children and Youth, Family and Parenting, Health and Medicine, hiv, sex ed, sex education, sexual education, sms, sms campaign, sms infolines, sms information

operates in:
Philippines

contact:
http://www.freewebs.com/sexedtext/

SET (Sex-Ed Text) is the fast, easy, anonymous way to get answers to everything you wanted to know about sex, but never asked.

References / Past Projects

SET is sposored by Child Family Services Philippines with human resources help from Peace Corps Philippines.

Learning About Living

file under:
aids, Children and Youth, Health and Medicine, hiv, sex ed, sms infolines

operates in:
Nigeria

contact:
http://www.learningaboutliving.com

From the MobileActive blog:

Learning About Living is a project by One World UK, Nigerian NGOs, the MTN Foundation, and the Nigerian Department of Education using computers and mobile phones to teach Nigerian teenagers about sexuality and HIV/AIDS prevention.

References / Past Projects

From LearningAboutLiving.com

Learning about Living, the electronic version of FLHE, is based on the Nigerian Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education (FLHE) curriculum. The program is managed by One World UK and is developed by Butterfly Works, in close collaboration with Action Health Incorporated, NERDC, Federal Ministry of Education, Federal Ministry of Health, Education as a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) and Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI); with input from young people, school teachers and youth workers in Nigeria.

FLHE Curriculum was developed by the NERDC as the National Agency for Curriculum development in the education sector in Nigeria in collaboration with the Universal Basic Education, Federal Ministry of Education and Action Health Incorporated.

PLAN International

file under:
africa, Children and Youth, mobile phones, mobileactive, youth

operates in:
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo

contact:
http://www.plan-international.org More on the media program is at http://www.plan-international.org/action/participation/planchildmedia/ Press release about the partnership with Nokia is at http://www.plan-international.org/news/06/nokia/

Plan recently partnered with Nokia as part of its Youth Media Program. According to the press release, Nokia and international children’s organisation, Plan, have joined forces to use modern communications technologies in Africa to raise children’s awareness of their rights and opportunities. Nokia has provided an initial donation of one million Euros for 2006. The first stage of this new joint effort will see Nokia focus on supporting Plan’s existing media and communications technology projects for Africa’s children and youth. Access to and use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) such as radio, the internet, mobile devices and television is a vital element in helping to tackle poverty and improve the respect, fulfilment and protection of children’s rights.

References / Past Projects

Founded over 70 years ago, Plan is one of the oldest and largest international development agencies in the world. We work in 49 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas.

Plan directly supports more than 1,500,000 children and their families, and indirectly supports an estimated further 9,000,000 people who live in communities that are working with Plan.

Plan is independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations.

Our vision

Plan’s vision is of a world in which all children realise their full potential in societies that respect people's rights and dignity.

Our mission

Plan works to achieve lasting improvements for children living in poverty in developing countries, through a process that unites people across cultures and adds meaning and value to their lives. Read our mission statement.