Yource: Conference on Open source Youth Networking & Web 2.0, København 9.-14. oktober

The conference will gather 50 participants from across Europe to explore and develop the role of modern information technologies and participative media as tools in youth work and voluntary engagement. The conference's focus is to link virtual web-based with real-life social activism and create hereby new perspectives for social engagement in our society.

Participants should be between 18-30 years old and should have experience in youth and community involvement, preferable with background in participative media and new information trends&technologies like weblogs, open source concepts, communities and social networks.

What is “YOURCE”?
YOURCE stands for Open Source Youth Networking.
ISCA (International Sport and Culture Association, Denmark) initiated YOURCE to promote and facilitate the application of new trends & technlogies in youth work & youth volunteerism, giving hereby innovative impulses for social engagement in Europe.

ISCA understands the importance of modern information technologies, especially of open source concepts and Web 2.0 as chances for innovative impulses in the NGO scene, leading to extends of interaction, gain of strength and power for all involved parties. YOURCE is Open Source Youth Networking for “real-life”

social change.

Content and Themes
The 1st YOURCE Conference will feature the following key-topics:

• Pan-European youth Dialogue for real life voluntary and social engagement
• Open Source culture as an innovative tool for European NGOs and volunteers
• Online networking in Web 2.0 for real-life interaction and social engagement
• Online activism and real life activism as complementary movements

The 1st YOURCE Conference brings together the resources and networks of “classical”
youth work in Europe, represented by young peers & volunteers and NGOs
working in the youth field, with peers and ambassadors of the “new” Web 2.0 and
open source developments.

The conference!s approach is to create an exchange and dialogue between both
dimensions thereby creating new perspectives for social engagement and movement
in society.

Profile of Participants
We kindly invite:

• Young people involved in voluntary work at a local, regional, national level
  or who are involved in NGO youth work
• Stakeholders and peers of the Web 2.0 and the open source movement
  motivated to transfer and adapt these concepts in a "real-life" environment
  with an extended social matter.
• Organisations active in the field of Web 2.0, Open Source
  and participative media

Participant age must be between 18-30, exceptions may be be granted based on
particulary interesting applicant profile. We encourage teams of 2-3 persons to apply,
but do not guarantee selection, due to limited spaces. Applications need to be
done individually.

Egenandel:
50 Euro. Reise (maks 200 Euro) og opphold dekkes av arrangør.

Søknadsfrist: 1. september 2007

Send inn søknad på www.yource.org