Day 2: Workshop at the ICT Conference

On the second day, the LWF participants spoke together with friends from ecumencial youth organizations about “Empowering Youth to Bridge the Digital Divide. Voices from young people world wide”. This way, young people from many parts of the world spoke about the exclusion of young people from ICT in their regions. In highly interactive groups they discussed the problems and possible solutions for it. You can read the preliminary report here.
The outcome of the workshop included three major recommendations:
• It is necessary to bridge the gap between the excluded and the policy makers. The basic responsibility of governments has to be affirmed. (cf. Millennium Development Goal 8.)
• Contextualize the understanding of technology and make it usable in the community.
• Achieve universal primary education and broaden the accessibility of secondary and tertiary education to enable young people to make full use of ICTs. (cf. Millennium Development Goal 2).