Singapore students have a good grasp of scientific knowledge but they should not stop questioning even the obvious, as curiosity often sparks off great inventions, said judges at the 27th Youth Science Festival.

Among the inventions was a dustbin comes up to your level via infrared sensor.

"We see the elderly try to throw rubbish and they try to bend down and some of them, when they grow older, have osteoporosis. So it's quite a pity for them," said Siti Fatimah, a Secondary 3 student at Jurong West Secondary.
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Economist Amartya Sen and actor-cum-anchor Shekhar Suman are among the nominees for the MTV Youth Icon 2004. Other personalities on the list include fashion designer Ritu Beri, music director A R Rahman, superstar Amitabh Bachchan, cricketer Rahul Dravid and industrial Ratan Tata.

The list was drawn up after IMRB, commissioned by MTV, did a survey in ten cities to understand who could be the possible candidates for the coveted award. The quantitative research had a sample size of 808 respondents, distributed equally between the two sexes, in the age group of 15-24 belonging to SEC AB. Individuals contacted were from households who had cable and satellite TV and claimed viewership of music channels for atleast 30 minutes a week.
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This is nothing new.

Taking a page from the revitalized Nissan Motor Co., struggling Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) will form special task forces of younger employees to draw up management plans, sources said.

The plan, part of the automaker's recovery road map to be officially announced today, was inspired by Nissan's dramatic turnaround under President Carlos Ghosn.
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It is really good to see how governments of OECD countries are so concerned about their young citizens, vis-a-vis countries in the developing and under developed economies. Reading the initiatives of Canadian Government it becomes more apparent. This initiative leads to helping youth in entering into employment.
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Mdj is community networking platform for all the youth centers spread across Canada, numbering about 350. Called as Maisons des jeunes, these centers act as an access point for youth for voicing thier concerns to society at large.

En Francaise
Mdj est plateforme de gestion de réseau de la communauté pour tous les centres de la jeunesse écartés à travers le Canada, numérotant environ 350. Appelé en tant que jeunes de DES de Maisons, ces centres agissent en tant que point d'accès pour la jeunesse pour des soucis thier exprimants à la société dans son ensemble.

Funny how the years they just pass by.
I met you so long ago, even your face comes to my mind oblique. Seems like yesterday, you were in my life.Yet your presence is so bright in my mind.You always wanted to start a family. I was too young, I was running free.Yes yes, I wanted to see the world. If you could only see me now, you'd realize.Because I was too young to give in...Now you come to me and please dont pretend again...
Influenced by E.Iglesias

This turns out to be a very good discussion platform among the young citizens of Europe. It revolves around the question: Youth Discussion - Does Europe need a Constitution?
http://europa.eu.int/comm/coreservices/forum/index.cfm?forum=Futurum&fuseaction=contribution.home&Debate_ID=-38&Done=190

This workshop I attended recently for OWSA on ICT policy and civil society was organised by APC, IDRC, GIPI, Digital Empowerment Foundation, Indev and PlanetFinance on April 21-23, 2004. The main thurst of this workshop was to train the civil society participants in policy making in ICT related areas. Attended by about 40 people besides the organisers, the attendees included representatives of grassroot level NGOs, civil society organisations, government and private sector as well.The workshop, first of its kind held in South Asia, had Sonia George of APC as its trainer. The workshop started with introductory speeches by its organisers including Mr. Frank Tulus, IDRC, Mr. Amitabh Singhal, President ISP Association of India , Mr. John Borgoyary – Indev (British Council). The workshop then was started with brief introductions of the participants and remarks of the trainer, Sonia.The issues covered in this workshop dealt mainly with how civil society organisations could implement ICTs in the most effective way and framing a conducive policy framework for the same.Around this cental theme, roles of various other ICT tools and applications including radio,online communities were raised.
The workhop was though highly interactive, various non issues were raised and discussed.I pointed out how OWSA played in influencing the policy making efforts through its global portal like DigitalOpportunity Channel and the discussion forums like Information Society:Voices from the South. OWSA has been instrumental in bridging the digital divide trough projects like OKN and EkDuniya which will essentially benefit the grassroot people through empowering them to publish local knowledge in internet in local languages.
The detail brief of this workshop could be found at http://www.gipi.org.in/ICT%20POLICY%20WKSHP%20APRIL%202004/Agenda.htm
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