Derek Ingram, widely regarded as one of the leading writers on Commonwealth issues, previous Deputy-Editor of the DailyMail, UK, and founder of the Gemini News Service, contributes his expertise to YoComm.com, the Pan-Commonwealth youth online media network.
"Making an Impact: The Commonwealth in
Parliament and in the Constituencies"
Richard Bourne, Baroness Prashar, Lord Howell of Guildford
Stuart Mole, Andrew Tuggey, Baroness Hayman
Lord Chidgey
The Royal Commonwealth Society and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (UK branch) jointly hosted a half-day conference on "Making an Impact: The Commonwealth in Parliament and in the Constituencies" on 12 March 2008 at the Houses of Parliament at Westminster, which was also supported by the Commonwealth Association.
The Seventh Meeting of Commonwealth Youth Ministers (7CYMM) will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 27 – 30 April 2008, under the theme of “Youth and Peace-Building” The Meeting will be preceded by meetings of the Pan-Commonwealth Regional Advisory Board and the Pan-Commonwealth Youth Caucus on 24 April. A skills building workshop focusing on the gender and youth dimension to peace-building will take place from 25 – 26 April; and a stakeholders’ meeting on youth mainstreaming will be held on 27 April.
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"An Audience With Bill Gates"
On 30th January 2008, the Institute of Directors hosted “An Audience with Bill Gates” at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London as part of the “World Leader Lunch” series. The YoComm team participated at this exclusive seminar. Bill Gates talked about his views on the ‘Second Digital Decade’ and the IT innovations that are creating a “New World of Work”, Bill also announced the UK launch of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.
Our Commonwealth 4 Poster Set
Discussion & Activity Ideas
YoComm team proudly presented the YoVoice Questionnaire statistics to Youth delegates from different Commonwealth countries at the 2006 Commonwealth Youth Forum in Malta.
The Golden Tapestry Project
The Golden Tapestry is a project for primary and special schools across the Common-wealth. Hundreds of thousands of children are contributing their own ideas and portraying their own lives and experiences in a unique collaborative artwork that is being exhibited around the world...
31 year-old Shilpa Shetty, one of the five speakers on the occasion at the Westminster Abbey on Monday evening touched on issues such as racism and AIDS.
As part of the programmes marking the celebration of the Commonwealth Day which falls on the second Monday of every March, the Commonwealth debates were organised to create awareness of the Commonwealth through a healthy, competitive and fun mode among institutions.
A message from Her Majesty The Queen,
Head of the Commonwealth
Last year, Commonwealth Heads of Government met in Uganda on the edge of Lake Victoria and agreed to an Action Plan for tackling climate change. It was an appropriate place to do so: from there, the waters of the River Nile begin a three-month journey to the Mediterranean.
Message from The Commonwealth Secretary-General
Don McKinnon
Monday 10th March is Commonwealth Day. For two billion Commonwealth citizens, it is a day to share and a day to celebrate.
Yet to share is not always to celebrate. Our theme this year, The Environment – Our Future, reminds us that we have a responsibility to share all that is good about the environment today with the generations of tomorrow...
"Media and Development Workshop" ,
Commonwealth Peoples Forum, Kampala, Uganda
The centerpiece of the Commonwealth People’s Forum (CPF) in Kampala, 18-22 November, was a series of twenty interactive workshops run by coalitions of civil society organizations.
During the first session, Yocomm presented a best practice case study to the delegates.
Clinton versus Obama - WHO SHOULD BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT ??
Right now the two most prominent names in speculation about the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination are Illinois senator and best-selling author Barack Obama, and New York senator and former First Lady Hillary Clinton.
The world and more especially the people of Zimbabwe are sitting on a time bomb waiting to explode anytime soon. “Power” in every form is a very useful tool but when used wrongly or found in the wrong hands can lead to disastrous consequence.
The people of Zimbabwe have no leader; the results from elections held a couple of weeks ago have not been released and this is causing great uneasiness amongst the people of Zimbabwe who will become victims of events when the undesirable war breaks out.
This is a Campaign; calling on all Commonwealth citizens especially the youth to sign-on and add their voice to the many calling for Robert Mugabe to release the results and stand down for a new beginning in Zimbabwe.
This campaign runs till the end of April and we are hoping to receive a million signatures and comments in support of the new Zimbabwe.
