June 20 SJRK Partners Meeting Notes
Liam, Silvia, Dana, Alan, Jess, Michelle
We each shared updates about our current work plan
IDRC
Child safeguarding policy
We have sent a draft of the policy to Oak
Could we make it open and accessible as a way to apply the ideas of this project to the doc itself?
Template is constrained by Oak
We could include another version in our toolkit
The policy applies to everyone who works on this project
Should policy align with policies in each country?
Based on UN convention
Adaptation to local context could be appropriate
We are waiting to hear back from Oak and Keeping Children Safe and once we do will have better idea of timeline - probably ~1 month
Any input or feedback from partners in that time frame
Alan will send out the policy draft to the partners
Website
Want your input about how to implement Oak’s ideas:
"A way of contributing relevant resources"
Best existing candidate: wiki
"A way of contributing stories"
Best existing candidate: wiki
Longer term - building a story-gathering tool
"A means of identifying challenges we want to address within SJRK"
Best existing candidate: Slack & mailing list
"A strategy for connecting different youth groups who have similar interests"
Best existing candidate: Slack & mailing list
Other ways to facilitate this?
Where are these groups already and what are they using now/most comfortable using?
E.g. Facebook?
Split into asynchronous and synchronous?
E.g. discussion boards, video chats
E.g. inquiry groups in Youth Movements project (TIG) - presented best practices and trends to each other, have “events”, both online (Google hangouts) and locally - outputs from these digital events are available online through the YM knowledge Hub. The outputs from the in person roundtable events are available through uberflip topics are Mobile learning for social good and activating online communities.
Need to consider the language - need translation
If we provide the technical ability to create translations, the youth are motivated to contribute
Perhaps we could use this? https://www.cloudpipes.com/integrations/confluence/google-translate
Repository of OERs as a place of connection?
Capacity of repository to offer communication and interaction
This is something we could create
In Columbia - diversity is a big issue, also government promoting entrepreneurship
Interaction of youth with these resources could be a good space to know what are their needs, and to embrace them in our project, could be a place to connect youth across locations
Possible new tools
Liam - TIG
Youth Action Guides
Toolkit to allow youth to act on SDGs
Revising original MDG action guides
Providing content about inclusion in an inclusive way
Indigenous Story Gathering
Canada 150 - indigenous youth stories
~20 groups over the summer producing videos about their communities
Communities all over Canada - through Connected North
Silvia - FUTCO
Work with young people in 3 regions in Columbia - Cauca, Manizales, North Columbia
Main issues to address:
Diversity - is not accepted as a value
Environment - industries exploiting environment, why important to care for the environment
Entrepreneurship - peace agreement signed between army and guerrilla movement last year left 12,000 former guerrillas in need of work - the government is promoting entrepreneurship, young people need new opportunities
We could invite these youth to an event
One of best ways to work is through playing e.g. games with augmented reality - creating the games together with youth as best way to engage them
Also want to create web-based content - to support these 3 things
Currently defining work plan, working with Karisma
Note
We want to relate everything back to youth with learning differences, and informal learning environments and practices