[up.int.sam] Fwd: INVITATION - Young Leaders Social Media Cafe - VOL.01 Beirut - March 6

[Lars Johansson]

Kanske höra med Jonas Johansson om han är intresserad?

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:06 AM,  <teirdes at gmail.com> wrote:
> det här känns ju som något vi borde lura iväg en dalarna-bo till, så
> att vi kan utöka vår skara med någon intet ont anande dalkulla eller
> -mas.
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> /amelia
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> From: Javeria Rizvi Kabani <javeria.rizvi.kabani at si.se>
> Subject: INVITATION -  Young Leaders Social Media Cafe - VOL.01 Beirut -
>        March 6
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> För er kännedom!
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> BEIRUT LAUNCH
> MARCH 06, 2010
> < CHAPTER 01 >
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> Marhaba!
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> The Young Leaders Social Media Café is a spin off from the Young Leaders Visitors Program
> initiated by the Swedish Institute for young leaders from around the MENA region.
> With new digital platforms bridging divides and a vast capacity for the young adults from the Arab
> world to engage in their communities, social media like Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, mobile
> technology and blogs can erode cultural barriers and shatter common misperceptions. In order to
> make an impact and drive change, the opinion-makers of tomorrow need to be better equipped and
> better connected than ever before.
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> The Young Leaders Visitors Program was successfully launched in 2008 as an intercultural
> leadership program supporting the development of young leaders through a combination of
> personal growth and practical experience, focusing on social media as a tool for positive change.
> The YLVP network now comprises more than 100 young driven leaders from all around the MENA
> region in addition to Sweden and other western countries.
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> With the growing network of driven young leaders, growing collaborations and projects and the
> increasing media hype around the YLVP, we wanted to continue this positive snow ball effect to
> inspire larger numbers of young people to push for change within their communities. The Young
> Leaders Social Media Café is NOW finally on the move!
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> The YLSMC is a monthly meeting that will take place in different cities around the MENA region. It is
> an open space for young leaders of all fields to share, discuss and plan social entrepreneurial
> projects. It also aims to create learning opportunities in the area of free expression, the role of new
> network technologies and social media in driving processes of social change in addition to finding
> cross sectoral synergies.
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> In such a social space the possibilities for new ideas to get tested, new projects started, new
> entrepreneurial contacts built and new knowledge disseminated are huge. It allows for a mix of
> cultural, educational, technical, business and social activists who may never otherwise meet and
> cross-fertilize. The concept is flexible enough to work in different ways suitable to the social and
> cultural context.
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> The main aim of YLSMC is to lay a foundation for dialogue, mutual understanding and
> knowledge-sharing among young opinion-makers from around the MENA region. YLSMC strives to
> strengthen participants in their prospects to drive processes for social change in their respective
> contexts.
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> The international launch of the YLSMC will take place at the International Youth Forum 'Rework the
> World' [www.reworktheworld.org] between 2 - 5 June in Leksand, Sweden.
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> Marhaba!
> Yalla join other young adults
> and help in 'Rethinking the World Socially'!
> Regards,
> YLSMC Team
> [www.socialmediacafe.org]
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> Javeria Rizvi Kabani
> Program Manager | Department for Intercultural Relations
> Phone: +46 (0) 8-453 78 76
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