June 9, 2017 Meeting with TIG + IDRC

  • Youth leadership fund (part of connected north) - Samuel Family Foundation https://www.connectednorth.org/fund/

    • Decolonizing youth leadership - next week?

    • Youth arts in Cape Dorset - PA Patrick and Alexa

    • Language revitalization in the Yukon - Tlingit?

  • Work in Arviat, Nunavut

  • Work with teachers and students

  • Building capacity of institutions to provide learning (Vancouver Aquarium, Winnipeg Art Gallery)

  • Connect with Units of Sound UK ? http://www.unitsofsound.com/us/

  • Refresh the Guides to Action with LD related content

  • Gather stories?

  • There are six TIG action guides: Main one + Mental health, volunteering, artisitc expression, HIV AIDs,

    • Create a new one?

    • Modify main one, revitilize it, make it more inclusive

    • Create a Pressbooks version

    • Currently they are pdfs

    • MDGs Millenium Dev Goals to SDGs transition

    • Action guides - loop in James

    • Content, technical aspects of a11y, delivery

  • Reconciliation - create a guide to action - created by indigenous youth - we “host” the process

  • Tie in grads from MDes? E.g. Cheryl L’Hirondelle

  • Explore 150 - recognizing indigenous land - launching July 1 - explore150.tigweb.org

  • Create open data tools - control the narrative - the youth create the page for their nation

    • Give individual youth grants to create media about their community

    • Let TIG know how many $1000 grants we can support - combine with FLOE

    • There are 634 First Nations in Canada - we could fund 10, 20, 100?

    • “Whose Land is it Anyway”

    • Upcoming event … ?

    • Hacking Canada’s achievements - David P

  • TDSB - acknowledgements

  • Funding relationships with Mexico? Columbia? Move money through TIG?

  • PM Trudeau - youth service initiatives - launch in fall - microgranting - proposed funding for accessibility