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Youth Using Technology to Promote Development
The Playa Wire - January 27, 2011Youth Using Technology to Promote Development
Posted by Jennifer Corriero, Executive Director, TIG
Walk into any public access computer lab, in any town, on any...
Bringing Networked Intelligence to Life
Macrowikinomics - January 25, 2011Magnetic quotes of this nature were part of the reason we were thrilled to host Don Tapscott at our TakingITGlobal offices to talk about his new book Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the...
TakingITGlobal’s Top 10 EdTech Projects in 2010
edtech Digest - January 20, 2011These days, student dropout and disengagement rates are at all-time highs, and costing billions in lost economic opportunities and crime. At the same time, global awareness and understanding across...
Qatar: Better Public Diplomacy Through Online Translation
Fast Company - October 14, 2010The Clinton Global Initiative and Qatar Foundation International (QFI) have a unique idea for bridging the American-Arabic cultural gap: An online project aimed at bringing American and Qatari...
Young People are Unstoppable
The Kingston Whig Standard - February 1, 2010Young people were told that they didn't need to have big money to affect big changes in the world this weekend.
While philanthropy is connected in the popular mind with the...
They Followed Their Passions Into Different Careers
The Globe and Mail - December 23, 2009Michael Furdyk could have lounged around after striking it rich as a teenager in the dot-com era.
But he’s not that kind of guy.
A decade after selling his...
Leading the Way: A Guide to Mental Health Action
Mood Magazine - September 1, 2009By David Venn, Jess Wishart, Jennifer Corriero and Stan Kutcher, MD, FRCPC
Every cause needs champions - people who are willing to stand up, speak loudly and take action and
...
Matchmaker to the World: Canadian Jennifer Corriero Marries Volunteers to Good Causes Online
Reader's Digest - August 1, 2009Three years ago, Jennifer Corriero visited a tin shack in Nairobi that serves as an orphanage for 40 children, some of them cast off as pariahs because their parents died of AIDS. Showing her...
Jennifer Corriero provides expertise to new publication
Wageningen Academic Publishers - May 5, 2009TakingITGlobal's Executive Director Jennifer Corriero contributed a chapter to a new publication from Wageningen Academic Publishers, titled "Young...
A Design for Changing the World
NCTI: The Youth Voice - March 4, 2009TakingITGlobal (TIG) is a non-profit social networking website with a difference: its purpose is nothing less than to constitute a platform whereby youth around the world can change their world,...
The TIGed Program: A Model For Taking Classrooms Global
Multimedia Schools - March 1, 2009Online global classrooms empower educators to leverage the power of social networking to create curriculum that is more interdisciplinary, more effective, and more relevant to students' lives....
IT educator Michael Furdyk talks about being digital
The Courier Mail - February 18, 2009Michael Furdyk sold his first business, MyDesktop.com, in 1999 for an undisclosed seven-figure sum - he was a millionaire at 16.
Now, the Canadian entrepreneur travels the world...
Global Citizenship: TakingITGlobal, The World, Canada and You
(be) World W.I.S.E. - February 1, 2009Citizenship is the status of being a member of society, and the rights and duties that status encompasses. Therefore, global citizenship works towards moral and ethical understanding of individuals...
YMEX: Media Exchange
Live IT Magazine - February 1, 2009YMEX: Media Exchange
By Puja Goyal
New trends are taking on social networking sites. There was also an array of friendly websites doing the rounds like Batchmate and Orkut, etc.,...
Compassionate Clicking
Leadership for Student Activities Magazine - December 31, 2008Compassionate Clicking
An online tool that connects young people around the world and helps them help others
By Kathleen Wilson Shryock
Young people can change...
The Future of Volunteering is Online
e-CIVICUS 418 - December 5, 2008The Future of Volunteering is Online
By Laura Kenyon - Online Community Manager and Editor and Chiara Camponeschi - Multilingual Programs Manager of TakingITGlobal
...
Building the Future: Science Centers and the Net Generation
ASTC Dimensions - September 3, 2008In June 2008, TakingITGlobal Executive Director Jennifer Corriero gave the keynote address at the 5th Science Centre World Congress. The following article is an adaptaion of the address, which...
Reaching Millions - Youth, AIDS and the Digital Age
The Kaiser Network - August 4, 2008The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has a video and podcast of TakingITGlobal's session at the XVII International AIDS Conference (Mexico City).
Executive Director Jennifer...
'Social networking for social change'
The Globe and Mail - July 28, 2008TakingITGlobal was featured in the Globe and Mail's Report on Business Incubator feature, where organizations are presented as case studies for leading analysts to offer their advice.
“Youth Dialogue” recommends purifying the “Youth Parliament” from impurities
Al Waqt - July 28, 2008This article was originally published in Arabic:
A group of Bahraini youth called upon “purifying” the project of Bahrain Youth Parliament from “impurities” to allow real...
Green bonanza!
Edmonton Sun - July 7, 2008Green bonanza!
Grit leader predicts his carbon plan will mean 'megatonnes of money' for Alberta
By GLENN KAUTH, SUN MEDIA
A Liberal plan to tax...
Radio Canada International - July 3, 2008
TakingITGlobal referenced in MindShare Learning Report
MindShare Learning Report - July 1, 2008MindShare Learning Report, Canada's premier learning & technology industry eNewsletter referenced TakingITGlobal's announcement of the launch of the 4th World Youth Congress.
Chatelaine’s 80 amazing Canadian women to watch – Politics & Community
Chatelaine Magazine - May 1, 2008TakingITGlobal co-Founder & Executive Director was featured in the May 2008 issue of Chatelaine:
Jennifer Corriero - 27
She's been called a digital dignitary, a global leader,...
Digital activists target Tibet
The Globe & Mail: Technology - April 15, 2008From MoveOn.org to sending alerts via SMS, technology has changed the way we protest
JENNIFER HOLLETT
Special to Globetechnology.com
April 15, 2008 at...
UN appoints new members to the global alliance on ICT
UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development - April 9, 2008United Nations, 09 APRIL - The United Nations announced today the appointment of new members to the Global Alliance for Information and Communications Technology and Development (GAID).
All Media is New Media
UNICEF: Media Magic Digest - March 28, 2008The March issue of Media Magic Digest featured two pieces about TakingITGlobal - one on the organization, and one on an extremely active member,
Cybernetic Engagement
Faculdade Cásper Líbero - March 7, 2008Jennifer Corriero received her BA in Liberal Studies, focused on 'Business, Communications, Technology and Culture' and a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University. Her area of...
The BA and TakingITGlobal (TIG) Join Together to Empower Youth and Promote Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Library of Alexandria - March 6, 2008The Bibliotheca Alexandrina and TakingITGlobal (TIG) Join Together to Empower Youth and Promote Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Alexandria - The BA signed a significant Memorandum of...
Timmins youth lend helping hand; Weekend workshop focuses on assisting those in Attawapiskat
Timmins Daily Press - March 3, 2008Youth in Timmins are offering a helping hand to youth in Attawapiskat.
Students from at least two Timmins high schools say they want to organize a grassroots letter-writing campaign...
Inspiring Youth through Global Communications
Social Innovation Conversations - February 4, 2008Fifty percent of the world's population is under the age of 25, and the majority of those youth live in the developing world. How do you harness the power and energy of that group for social...
TakingITGlobal profiled on RedCanary.ca
Scott Valentine, RedCanary.ca - February 4, 2008PROFILE: TakingITGlobal
By Scott Valentine on February 04, 2008
Sought after by Fortune 500 companies and recognized for their international contributions, the 20-something...
Night of Inspiration
York University Magazine - February 1, 2008Night of Inspiration
Five distinguished grads receive Bryden Alumni Awards
There was no shortage of surprise moments when more than 200 alumni, faculty, staff and friends...
Online networking for social good – A global approach
Centre for Health Promotion Studies News, University of Alberta - January 31, 2008Online networking for social good - A global approach
by Tracey Nichols
(Jan 31, 2008)
Which online social networking website has nearly 200,000 members in over...
Start Up and Change the World: Guide for Young Social Entrepreneurs
SADC, GKP & YSEI - January 29, 2008In this guidebook for young social entrepreneurs, authors Sailendrah Dev Appanah and Sunit Shrestha of Youth Social Enterpise Initiative (YSEI) profiled TakingITGlobal Executive Director and...
She takes it global
The Aspirant - January 1, 2008Jennifer Correiro is a 27 year old Canadian that started a worldwide wave with a social idea and the use of technology. TakingITGlobal is now a phenomenon - connecting people and providing...
Set a Goal, Take it Global
Girlphyte - November 30, 2007Worrying about your daughters' futures? Dr. Phil tells us that children are a blank slate where the same gender parent wields the biggest piece of chalk. Stirring the brew that is girl to woman,...
TakingITGlobal: Adding Social Change to the Curriculum
PodTech - November 26, 2007Note: The following is a video interview. You will need Adobe Flash Player - instructions for download and installation are on the link.
TakingITGlobal: Adding Social Change to the...
Millennials on the move
The Province - November 21, 2007Millennials on the move
'Communications gap' holding back Net Gen
Wendy McLellan, The Province
Published: Wednesday, November 21, 2007
They don't...
TakingITGlobal on Jerry Polselli's blog
Jerry Polselli's online journal used in his Media & Community Building course at UMass-Boston. - November 13, 2007TakingITGlobal
I introduced my Student Activist Club today to the TakingITGlobal.org Web site. The teenagers perused the site and spent some time checking it out and seeing what is...
Do-Gooders Gather Tech Museum Awards
Wired Magazine - November 11, 2007Tech Notebook: Tales from tech awards with bonus songs
San Jose Mercury News - November 10, 2007Steve Young, the former 49ers quarterback, took some friendly ribbing in his role as the dapper emcee at the seventh annual Tech Museum Awards dinner Wednesday.
It started when Craig...
Jennifer Corriero receives Bryden Award from York University
York University - November 8, 2007TakingITGlobal co-Founder & Executive Director Jennifer Corriero was honoured by York University as one of five Bryden Alumni Award recipients. Dubbed the "One-to-Watch: For remarkable professional...
Do-Gooders Gather Tech Museum Awards
Wired Magazine - November 8, 2007Do-Gooders Gather Tech Museum Awards
Wired Magazine - November 8, 2007SAN JOSE, California -- The Tech Museum of Innovation handed out its annual tech awards here Wednesday to honor innovators who use technology to benefit humanity.
This year's winning...
Interview with Michael Furdyk of TakingITGlobal
Britt Bravo's Blog - October 23, 2007"I think as of 2005, the majority of new Internet users every month, people who have never used the Internet before, no longer speak English as a first language. So there's a huge need for...
El Porvenir - October 17, 2007
Global voices against poverty
BBC News - October 16, 2007People all over the world are taking part in a day of action to hold governments to a UN pledge, made seven years ago, to eradicate poverty by 2015.
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS...
Grown up a Gen Y
Garry's Rambles - October 12, 2007Grown up a Gen Y
Michael Furdyk, Co-founder and Director of Technology for TakingITGlobal.org, spoke at the ACEL conference today about his own experience of growing up a Gen Y over...
Changing the World with IT - A Podcast Interview with Michael Furdyk
Canadian IT Manager - October 9, 2007Co-founder and Director of Technology Michael Furdyk was interviewed by Stephen Ibaraki on Canadian IT Manager. Click the above link for an MP3 of the podcast!
Some of the topics...
La Jornada - October 7, 2007
Online Social Networks No Longer Just for Teens
NPR - October 4, 2007Andy Carvin mentions TakingITGlobal and describes what we do in this interview with NPR.
Follow the link and click on "Listen" to hear his interview - TakingITGlobal is mentioned...
Taking Youth Global
YorkU Magazine - October 1, 2007Taking Youth Global
Jennifer Corriero has created a highly successful Web engine to help young people change the world.
By Michael Todd
Photography by Jeff...
The Cause Web: Tech 10 Innovators
Contribute Magazine - October 1, 2007Viral Communities
Michael Furdyk
Michael Furdyk's computer talents came early: At age two, he was already fiddling with a Commodore 64 computer, brought home by his father,...
TIG Staffer awarded $20K fellowship
Regina Leader-Post - October 1, 2007TakingITGlobal's Aboriginal Youth Engagement Coordinator, Eriel Deranger, was profile in the Regina Leader-Post recently. She was awarded a $20,000 fellowship in research from the Walter and Duncan...
Charities’ Tie to MTV Angers Nonprofits
The New York Times - September 27, 2007Charities’ Tie to MTV Angers Nonprofits
By STEPHANIE STROM
Published: September 27, 2007
MTV has begun testing a social networking Web site called...
Shiny Happy Activism
Mother Jones - September 24, 2007Shiny Happy Activism
Clicks, not cliques result from teens' use of an online activism site. But are they really engaging in activism?
By Kendra Hurley
...
Top 3 social networks for activists
TellusBlog.com - August 30, 2007TakingITGlobal is considered one of the top 3 online social networks by TellusBlog.com, a blog by Jonas Eriksson.
The Buzz - TakingITGlobal
School Library Journal - August 1, 2007Released by TakingITGlobal an international, youth-led organization, “Making the Connection: Best Practices in Global Education and Collaborative Technologies” offers 15 case studies of...
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
T.H.E. Journal - August 1, 2007If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
by Charlene O'Hanlon
Educators who recognize how much social networking engages and informs kids are creating their own sites as learning tools...
aloft Donates Virtual Land in Second Life To TakingITGlobal.org
Hotel News Resource - July 23, 2007aloft Donates Virtual Land in Second Life To TakingITGlobal.org
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) and aloft hotels announced today their plans to donate the aloft...
Canada can learn from Brazilian social awareness
Montreal Gazette - July 13, 2007Canada can learn from Brazilian social awareness
Roberto Rocha, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, July 13, 2007
In one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Winnipeg,...
Inspire, Inform, Involve
eJournal USA - July 1, 2007Inspire, Inform, Involve
Young people reach the wider world in an online community
Maybe you want a place to display your photographs or poems. Maybe you want to talk about...
Meeting People, Sharing Ideas Online
eJournal USA - July 1, 2007Meeting People, Sharing Ideas Online
Maitreyi Doshi
Signing up with an online community has sent a young Indian woman on some far-flung journeys.
When I was 16, in...
The Social Web Helps Social Change
DIG Trends - June 26, 2007TakingITGlobal was mentioned in DIG Trends, a blog devoted to sharing observations on the latest trends in social media.
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The Social Web Helps Social Change
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TakingITGlobal featured on blip.tv
blip.tv - June 5, 2007TakingITGlobal founder Jennifer Corriero and Online Community Partnership Coordinator Kirsten Jordan attended the recent Netsquared Conference in Silicon Valley (May 28 – 30, 2007)....
Red De Desarrollo Sostenible De Colombia - May 22, 2007
TIG referenced in PhD Thesis
Leo Burd - May 4, 2007A PhD candidate from MIT has recently published his thesis online and has referenced TakingITGlobal as an example of a youth-led initiative with a wide membership base.
â??In order...
A Community of Global Leaders
Converge Magazine - April 1, 2007A Community of Global Leaders
It's not surprising to see the notion of technology in education come to fruition. In fact, we've been wondering what's been taking so long.
TakingITGlobal mentioned in Don Tapscott's latest book
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything - December 28, 2006TakingITGlobal has been recognized as "one of the world' best examples of how N-Geners are using digital technologies to transform the world around them" in Don Tapscott's latest book, Wikinomics:...
World Bank Director launches project
Homepage Ghana - October 17, 2006Accra, Oct.17 GNA - Mr Mat Karlsson, World Bank Country Director, on Tuesday charged the youth to fight the challenges that militated against the country's development. He said it was no longer...
Global Youth Survey Explores Perspectives on Social, Cultural Identity
EDC - September 19, 2006According to a new survey asking young people worldwide about their social and cultural beliefs, most identified themselves as members of a “global community,” citizens of a broader...
Benjamin Quinto, Executive Director of the Global Youth Action Network, Presides Over the Market Close
NASDAQ - June 9, 2006Benjamin Quinto, Executive Director of the Global Youth Action Network presides over the closing bell.
The Global Youth Action Network is a youth-led organization that unites the...
Youth Are Building Presence Inside WTO
AlterNet - January 6, 2006'Six years ago, my first truly global experience came to my hometown. I was on the streets in 1999 when the WTO came to Seattle. In December, I traveled to Hong Kong to be part of a team of young...
Students Support the Millennium Development Goals
UN Chronicle Online Edition - January 1, 2006The world's youth are working to support the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)-thanks to the United Nations, the 2005 Live8 concert, MTV and some international celebrities, such as Irish musician...
PAOT - April 2, 2005
Adital - September 15, 2004
A Youth Activist on the Road Out
WireTap Magazine - July 19, 2004WireTap catches up with veteran youth activist, Bremley Lyngdoh, to discuss the importance of walking your talk, the future of sustainability, and the need for more international awareness among...
Camrose Canadian - January 25, 2004
YCDO - December 8, 2003
UNV Programme Officer criticises corrupt NGOs
Homepage Ghana - September 26, 2003Accra, Sept. 26, GNA - Mr Joseph Oji, United Nations Volunteer (UNV) Programme Officer in Ghana, on Friday has criticised youth related non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Africa that misapply...
Fear, Uncertainty And Prayer: Two Young Iraqis Speak Out From Baghdad
MTV - March 26, 2003Walid and Saif haven't seen or spoken to their friends in days. They haven't watched a movie or surfed the Net, either. In fact, they've hardly gone out of their parents' sight or left their houses...
Political party seeks to represent youth
The Daily Collegian - October 1, 2002It's a seemingly impossible task: motivating the demographic with the smallest voter turnout to unite and form a successful third party.
But Cousin Sam is determined to do it.
...
Global Youth Service Day Celebrations in Taiwan
Taiwan Philanthrophy Information Center - April 29, 2002April 26, 27 and 28 marked the Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) Celebration in Taiwan. As everywhere around the world, Taiwan recognized the importance and the outstanding contribution of young...
Chen urges nation's youth to volunteer `a little time'
Taipei Times - April 28, 2002On Global Youth Service Day, President Chen Shui-bian (???) yesterday encouraged the nation's youth to volunteer some of their time to helping others.
At at a ceremony marking this...
Global Voices Against Poverty
Global Youth Service Day Celebrations in Taiwan
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