Youth outreach in Uzbekistan

WIN WITH THE UN!

Promoting UN themes, ideas and values among youth

20082008

Win with the UN!

Information and

Communication

Technologies as a tool

• an attractive form of packaging UN information

• a cost-effective way to

reach out to youth in the regions

• UN Youth Marathon• MDG Campaign• Tech Age Girl

Project• International

Women’s Day Festival

• National ownership and acceptance: partnering with state and private ICT organizations and well-known national web-portals

• 60 school-based educational centres providing Internet services to 300,000 students, teachers and community members

Online educational portal www.connect.uz with 1,000+ visitors per day

Advantages of using ICTs in youth outreach

• No space and time limits common for face-to-face meetings and events

• Interactivity: our four projects generated active online group discussions on gender, education, health, environment and other issues. 4,300 messages were posted and read more than 87, 000 times

• Access to global and local information and knowledge

• Platform for collaborative work and action

“Discover the UN” game: Immediate feedback

• “I’ve just taken part in the contest “Discover the UN”. An excellent game! For every age! It suits very well for learning because we can see the right answers after giving ours.” – Alina, Tashkent

• “This is a special game. Through a simple technique a player strives to win and at the same time learns new things. One can’t claim to be educated if he doesn’t know anything about the UN. I wish everyone to test this game.” - Marat Auazov

• “The UN game is great! At first I lost to the Bug but then showed him that I was smarter. Contests of this kind help us grow up and learn!” - Adolat Halikova, Namangan

• “It was one of the most exciting contests, like a hide-and-seek game. We were in the role of a finder. We had as much fun as we usually had playing virtual football” – Ahatjon Ismatov, Namangan

“The Internet Marathon united the most energetic and active young users and gave them a chance to show their skills and knowledge. It was a real celebration of people who communicated before only online but now finally met off-line.”