In August the Innovation Lab team has been making a concerted effort to raise awareness of U-Report Indonesia both to young people interested in development issues and potential partners. The first event the Innovation lab attended to promote U-Report Indonesia was in beginning of this month on August 19th for the Youthnesian UNFPA event. The first large scale event we’ve officially attended to represent U-Report. We signed up over 50+ new followers over the course of the day thanks to the hard work of the team. Thank you Saskia, Annisa, and Imran!
More recently on August 26th the Innovation Lab represented UNICEF and U-Report Indonesia at the UNESCO Global Media Forum in Bali. We presented at the Empowering Youth through Social Media session on the 2nd day. Sharing U-Report and discussing how UNICEF’s ability to connect youth with government and development partners is an important new way of using digital communication. Between the welcoming dinner and the presentation, we were able to make connections with others from the UN and outside of the UN working on cutting edge programs focused on using media to empower young people and new types of civic engagement.
The initiatives ranged from community radio in Mongolia, citizen mobile phone journalism in Indonesia and many others. We also connected with many people two highlights were: international broadcaster Femi Oke the host of Al Jazeera English’s hit social media show The Stream and popular Indonesian singer, actress, and artist Maudy Ayunda. Check out the whole day on our twitter feed! @UReport_id Saskia did a fantastic job of live tweeting the entire day.
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