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Keynoting the Global Engagement Summit 2008
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In an effort to revive my blog, I'm going to start posting updates from my work at TIG & GYAN :) Here is a reflection about my trip report to Chicago:

On April 17th I traveled to Chicago to attend the Global Engagement Summit at Northwestern University. I was invited as one of the Summit’s three keynote speakers and also held a workshop on “Technology as Global Platform”.

The mission of the Global Engagement Summit is to build the capacity of the next generation of global change leaders to cross-borders and partner with new communities to produce responsible, sustainable solutions to shared global programs. I was very impressed with how well the summit was organized, and the level of engagement and commitment of staff, participants and facilitators was incredibly inspiring.

One of my personal highlights was to have two active TIG members from Nigeria and Liberia attending my workshop on Friday morning. Both of them are actively involved in CLCWA, and the guy from Nigeria was also an active member of the Nigerian WSIS Youth Caucus team (he was wearing a green ‘Nigeria Rocks’ scarf, which brought back many good memories and made me very happy :)

In my keynote speech I emphasized the motivation and hope that derives from being part of a community of like-minded young people. When I prepared my speech the night before, I read on the GES blog on socialedge.org that, in his opening speech, one of the co-directors of the summit had remarked how he had always felt really frustrated about the limitations young people face in affecting change in a complicated world, and that it wasn’t until he participated in a previous Global Engagement Summit that he realized he was not alone, but part of a larger generation of young people with similar concerns, who together were making a difference. In my speech, I quoted him and then told my own story, which is very similar to his and indeed, in my belief, the story of so many of us.

I then went on to talk about GYAN’s 5-level model of youth organizing, explaining how social change is created through the collective and collaborative efforts of individuals and organizations focusing on awareness, action and policy change (the title of my speech was “Connecting global youth movements and community efforts to global systemic change”).

This is the blog post about my speech, which provides a brief summary from a listener’s perspective: link to blog about my speech.

May 6, 2008 | 1:12 PM Comments  1 comments

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koolsenator Francis
May 6, 2008 | 2:58 PM
NICE KEYNOTE
Nice One Franzsika, Greetings from Nigeria. It was indeed a pleasure listening to your keynote and I must confess it was one of the best I have listened to in recent times. It was really straight from the heart, compelling and inspiring, As you had all delegates rapt attention through out your presentation. Bravo!
I will send u a pictures we the GES TiG crew took with you. Cheers!
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