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CommentsThe United Nations and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (sun.com) today announced that Sun will take an active role in the second Pan-African Youth Leadership Summit in Morocco, part of a global UN initiative to mobilize a new generation of leaders to meet such challenges as ending extreme poverty and stemming the spread of HIV/AIDS.
As the Summit's first private sector sponsor, Sun will provide the network technology and training needed to assist the delegates to better connect with each other and participate at the event, as well as stay in contact, monitor progress of initiatives and plan future activities following the conference.
Sun's support for interconnectivity can play a key role with the new generation, since only 1 percent of people in sub-Saharan Africa and 4 percent of those in developing countries worldwide use the Internet, while more than half the population of the U.S. does so.
Sun Chief Researcher and member of the United Nations Information and Communications Technology Taskforce John Gage will keynote at the conference to discuss the power of information and communication technologies to connect global youth leaders and help them to join the Participation Age.
"We are looking forward to partnering with Sun since access to technology is crucial to engaging and connecting young people, but is largely unavailable in developing parts of the world," said Dr. Djibril Diallo, director of the UN New York Office of Sport for Development and Peace and chair of the UN Youth Summit series.
"We are one of many technology companies who have built global connectivity," said Gage. "Today, we are working to move beyond connectivity to participation, to enable a new generation to use ubiquitous global access to build a new future for themselves, their families, and their communities."
The Pan-African Youth Leadership Summit II is designed to help the next generation of Africa's leaders face the tremendous challenges outlined at the United Nations Millennium Summit held in September 2000.
The Kingdom of Morocco is hosting the Pan-African Youth Leadership Summit II at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, on August 18-23, bringing together more than 200 youth leaders from across the continent, as well as youth representing previous summits for the Asia and the Pacific region and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Sun believes the world is entering a new era - a Participation Age - where dramatically lowered barriers to entry, plummeting device prices, and near-universal connectivity are driving a new round of network participation.
From blogs to Java technology, SMS messages to Web services, participants are forming communities to drive change, create new businesses, new social services, and new discoveries.
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