Bloggers don't miss this opportunity !!!

by Amin (Tunisia & Egypt)

Dear bloggers, the League of Arab States is organizing the first Arab Youth Forum, whose objectives are allowing youth promising creative arab leaders together to allow them networking, hearing and recognizing arab youth needs and problems, and allowing them to talk directly to decision makers…                               http://www.lasyouthforum.org/index.php

First of all, for the ones who will comment about the inefficiency of the arab league and all this stuff, please spare me this, everyone is agreeing with this, it is true that it isn’t the best body in the arab world…

I see this forum as a great and brand new move in their policies, it is the first concrete step in favor of youth, and on the way of empowering them.. I am optimistic about it, especially because this is fully organized independently of the heads, and because there will be some serious and considered organizations like the UNDP, the UNFPA, EUROMED, and the this Swedish famous organization (i can’t remember its name !!).

The spirit of the forum itself is very unusual in the region : It is largely inspired from the Social Forums concept, that means that the organizers will define the fields of work, and the participants will choose the specified topics, will organize their methodology, set their agenda, and integrate their outcome in the final report, booklets…

http://www.lasyouthforum.org/index.php

There will be an independent group of bloggers (other groups exist like youth artists, youth activists, youth journalists,… and i will detail each of the groups in the next posts, but let me enhance the bloggers first), due to the enormous phenomenon of blogs and the place they took within the interests/habits of youth, and there will be of course interactions between the several groups…

Personally i followed the project since it was an idea, and i have to assure that i am very enthusiastic about it and i wont miss it for anything in the world !! Miss a chance of meeting some of the best young people in the region, miss the chance of having great discussions about yesterday, today, and tomorrow, the chance of changing things, and the chance of spending all paid 4 days on the beach lool !!

Seriously go have a look on the website (also in english), and apply if you’re interested…

To be continued…