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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 04:40:06 +0100
From: Ian Wojtowicz
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* JUNIOR SUMMIT 1998 *
"Not all children have access to a computer. Without ACCESS to things like the Internet, or other programs focused on helping them learn more about technology, technology is like a genie in a lamp. The power is not being released." (Junior Summit applicant)
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AMBASSADORS OF A NEW DIGITAL CULTURE
EXPRESSIONS OF CHANGE
The world has a lot to learn from its children, especially in the digital domain. The information society of tomorrow needs input from children today. The Junior Summit is a global movement for children to change the future by participating in a 6-month online forum, centered around a week-long international summit. The goal is to bring life-long benefits back to children and their communities.
INSPIRE THE WORLD TO CHANGE
To inspire the world to listen, we want you to express your ideas boldly and creatively, in words, images and music. The Junior Summit is a place to live outside the sphere of what children are supposed to be able to do. It is a place to explore, invent, learn and plan with other children, and then to have your ideas heard by world leaders in industry, government and education.
DEADLINE MARCH 31st, 1998
If you will be between 10 and 16 years old in November 1998 and would like to participate, you must submit an entry by March 31, 1998. We want to know how you see the state of children in your commmunity and in the world, what changes you think can and should be brought about, and how these changes could be affected by the growth of the Internet and other new communication technologies.
In your application, you should do one or more of the following:
** suggest an important problem (either local or global) that you think children should take action on ** describe the work that you have already done to change the world, and how you would like to expand that work ** discuss how the Internet and other new communication technologies can change the roles that children play in the world.
You can express your ideas in words, pictures, video, music, or any other medium (a web-site, a story). You can submit an entry as an individual or as a group.
If possible, submit your application by the web at
http://www.jrsummit.net or by e-mail to jrsummit@media.mit.edu. If you do not have access to the Internet, you may post or fax your entry to us, using the form below.
Guidelines for submitting entries are available in many languages on the web-site. Hard copies of the entry form in several languages may be requested by sending e-mail to jrsummit@media.mit.edu or sending a fax to +1 617-253-6215.
HARNESSING THE POWER OF DIVERSITY -- WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE
Participation in the Junior Summit is for you if you have an opinion about whether people your age should have a greater say and a more active role in changing the world locally and globally.
We are aiming for the greatest diversity of participants. We will include those who use a computer on a daily basis and those who have never had the chance to touch one. Representatives will be chosen from each region of the world, both boys and girls, and older and younger children.
CHANGE THE FUTURE WITH YOUR VOICE
Children from around the world will be selected to participate in a daily online forum for six months, starting August 1, 1998, for three months before and three months after the Summit. The goal of the forum is to decide which of the ideas you wrote about can be turned into "action projects" -- children-led projects to address important problems in the world -- and then to determine ways to act on them. The forum will be a place for children to challenge society's assumptions about what children can do, and to develop creative and radical ideas about how things can be>done differently in the future, especially with support from new communication technologies. The forum will be a showcase for technologies that encourage and enhance a multimedia, multilingual online community. Above all, the forum will be run by children.
The 2B1 Foundation (www.2b1.org) will provide the digital means, both computers and access, to those who do not have them.
MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD
Participants in the online forum will select delegates to attend a week-long international summit on November 15-20, 1998, in Boston, USA, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all expenses paid. The other
children in the online forum will participate in the Summit through video-conferencing and other communication technologies.
The Summit will address pressing global issues, such as children's rights, and how to eliminate the barriers between the digital "haves" and "have-nots." Delegates will determine how to use a one million dollar working fund to initiate several action projects, and will present their ideas to an audience of global press, Nobel Laureates, and world leaders. The Junior Summit participants will also decide on the format and plans for the next summit, Junior Summit 2000. By the time Junior Summit 1998 winds down, proposals will have been made to allow all children's voices to be heard, the way adults understand childhood will have been changed, and children will have begun to play a bigger role in designing the future.
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JUNIOR SUMMIT '98 ENTRY FORM
Please submit this form with your entry. Teams and classes need to submit only one entry form.
Entries may be e-mailed to jrsummit@media.mit.edu, submitted using the
on-line entry form on the web
1. How did you hear about the Junior Summit?
2. Why do you want to participate in the online forum and the conference?
3. What do you expect to learn from your participation, and what contribution do you believe you can make?
4. Do you/your team/your class already have a computer? If yes, what kind? Do you have Internet access? If not, can you use one through your school or community center, etc.?
5. Name of an adult sponsor who supports your entry and your participation:
6. What type of entry are you submitting (e.g., essay, website, etc.)? Is it included with this form? If no, where is it?
7. This entry is: A. An individual entry? Name: Date of Birth: Male/Female? Address: Nationality: Native language: Other languages: E-mail/Telephone/Fax if available:
B. A team entry? (please also complete the Group Entry list below) Team name: Team address:
C. A class entry? (please also complete the Group Entry list below) School name: School address: Name of teacher:
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GROUP ENTRIES
Please provide the following information for each member of your team or class.
Name Date of Birth Male/Female Native language & other languages
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