‘INNOVATION IS KEY TO NEW GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AGENDA’ – UN SUMMIT

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Date: 12 Sep 2013 13:00:01 -0400
Subject: 'INNOVATION IS KEY TO NEW GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AGENDA' – UN YOUTH SUMMIT
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'INNOVATION IS KEY TO NEW GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AGENDA' – UN YOUTH
SUMMITNew York, Sep 12 2013 1:00PMYoung people from across the world
who took part in a United Nations conference in Costa Rica have called
on world leaders to support innovation and technology as methods to
advance broader development, drive positive change and bring citizens
closer to their Governments.

Over the past three days, some 700 young people attended the BYND 2015
Global Youth Summit, convened by the UN International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) in San José, and more than 3,000
followed the conference online and contributed their ideas from 43
hubs or workshops in 25 different countries using social media
channels.

Young participants urged Governments to provide more flexible, dynamic
and open means of governing to reach more people more easily than
presently possible. They emphasized that the key to a successful
development paradigm will be innovation and asked for education
systems that equip students with not just theoretical knowledge, but
with a practical mix of marketable, innovative and relevant skills
needed to compete in the global digital economy.

Participants also highlighted the role of information communication
technologies (ICTs) to improve health care, stop environmental
degradation, and improve preparedness and recovery from natural
disasters.

"Young people nurtured in a world of technological innovation have
demonstrated at BYND2015 that ICTs are the driving force to meet
future sustainable development goals,"
<"http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2013/35.aspx#.UjHv_NJwpkk">said
the Secretary-General of the ITU, Hamadoun Touré.

"Their engagement in the Global Youth Summit – the hundreds who made
the journey to Costa Rica, and the thousands who connected from remote
hubs around the world – ensures their inclusion in the most important
decisions of the 21st century. After all, today's youth will inherit
the world tomorrow. And they will be our future leaders."

The <"http://www.itu.int/en/bynd2015/Documents/bynd2015-global-youth-declaration-en.pdf">BYND
2015 Declaration Youth Declaration was the result of the summit, and
the document will be presented today to the President of Costa Rica
Laura Chinchilla, who will take the collective message of the world's
youth to the General Assembly later this month.

"The key to a new global development agenda is innovation," say young
people in their Declaration, which underscored that old methods and
systems are poorly suited to the transformed and interconnected
communities we live in today. "We call on Member States, civil society
and the private sector to foster innovation to build the future we
want."

According to the ITU, over 1,000 ideas were generated on the online
platform designed specifically for the conference, where youth voted
around 15,000 times and provided more than 12,000 comments. In
addition, tens of thousands of people joined the conversation via
social media with a combined reach on the micro blogging platform
Twitter of over 16 million. The online conversation took place in 74
languages. Education, health and access to ICTs ranked as the highest
trending topics.Sep 12 2013 1:00PM
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