YouthNoise (YN)

...an interactive online community whose aim is to encourage youth civic engagement and community service through the integration of television, web, and mobile technologies. Amongst the features is a section called "MyCauseIs", where young activists can create personalised web pages, upload videos and photos, write blogs, invite friends, and add actions...

Community of Young Entrepreneurs

...an effort to strengthen networking and mutual learning among advocates for entrepreneurship and youth. Discussions in the e-community focus on policy advocacy, services for entrepreneurs, access to information, and networking. This ICT-based effort is participatory...

CDC Turns to Social Sites to Get Flu Message out

...this article explores United States' health authorities use of social networking websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, to prepare people to be vaccinated against the pandemic H1N1 virus. Aside from social media, the CDC has worked with so-called "mommy bloggers"...

Family Planning via Mobile Phones: Proof-of-concept Testing in India (CycleTel)

...this slideshow explores a mobile (m)Health solution that supplies a modern family planning method - the fertility-awareness-based Standard Days Method® (SDM) - directly to a user's mobile phone. It has the potential to operate at scale, across multiple countries, and in different languages...