World Summit Youth Award extends deadline until July 31st!

If you use websites, apps or other digital contents for social good, this is your chance! The World Summit Youth Award extends the deadline for submitting the entries until July 31st. Compete now with other projects from all around the world and win the chance to meet engaged Youth from all continents and network with representatives of NGOs, governments and media!

The WSYA is an annual award and a network for young people, under 30 years of age, using the in-ternet, mobile phones or other digital media to put the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into action. The MDGs were set in 2000 by the UN to prompt member states and civil society to fight poverty, hunger and disease, inequalities, lack of education and environmental degradation.

With the extended deadline, you can submit your product to this international competition until July 31st at www.youthaward.org in one of the six WSYA categories:

1.            Fight Poverty, Hunger and Disease !                    4.            Create your Culture !

2.            Education for All !                                                     5.            Go Green !

3.            Power 2 Women !                                                    6.            Pursue Truth !

Three winners and two runners-up for each category will be selected by an international jury of young ICT experts. They will evaluate the projects in two rounds of online judging.

Being a WSYA Winner, your project will be elevated to a new level. All winners will be invited to the WSYA 2011 Winners’ Events in Graz, Austria, in November. The WSYA Winners' Events are the place where they will have the chance to present their projects on a world stage. Aside from the award ceremony, meetings, discussion rounds and workshops will provide the space to exchange ideas and make friends with engaged youth from all continents.

Meet representatives of governments, NGOs, media and other renowned experts in the field of ICT for Development who will take part in these events and be available to the winners! This is a unique chance to boost your project by getting access to the WSYA network. The Youth Award network offers you the possibility to develop your project, refine your business plan or find sponsors.
 

Take part now and join all those working together to do good and reach the MDGs!

Apply now here!

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About the World Summit Youth Award (WSYA)

The WSYA selects and promotes best practice in e-content and new media, demonstrates young people’s potential to create outstanding digital content and serves as a platform for people from all UN member states to work together in the efforts to reduce poverty and hunger, and to tackle ill-health, gender inequality, lack of education, lack of access to clean water and environmental degradation. The WSYA is organised as a follow up activity of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) and its action plan towards the year 2015. The Youth Award is organised by the World Summit Award Network for the fourth time after 2005, 2009 and 2010.

WSYA is supported by the UN Global Alliance for ICT & Development (UN GAID), the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Internet Society (ISOC), INTEL, the telfree Group, the Fundação para as Comunicações Móveis (FCM) and the Layla Fakhro Foundation.

www.youthaward.org