Silvia, James, Liam, Juliana, Michelle, Dana
Notes from last meeting: https://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/%28SJRK%29+February+6%2C+2018+Partners+Meeting+Notes
Silvia
Silvia has been in Cartagena for last 2 months
Have conceptualized the results of SJRK in Cartagena and in other places in the region
A city initiative - visualize the activities of all the groups in the towns around the city
Cuentalo - “share with us”
Have changed the website a number of times!
Working on having a stable version
11 histories of different kinds of people around the city
Will put the stories on Youtube - with subtitles in English, Spanish
Stories all have different versions - video, narrative (accessible pdf), commentary
Cartagena is one of the most discriminatory cities in Colombia
Platform is a place where people can express their voice
E.g. Natalia - first-person story video
Stories highlighting why Cartagena is a diverse place
Histories of Afro-descendents
LGBTQ stories
Some time in March - a stable version of the platform
The government is engaged in this moment
Environmental Guardians - created a document in English describing environmental issues and variables - we have this document
Want to have a meeting with IDRC in order to define how to join efforts to think about how to visualize these variables
How to see these variables in a platform - e.g. areas of contamination, sources
22 stories in first part
How to use the storytelling tool we are building
When will it be ready?
Early March (in 2 weeks) - have an initial version that we want to try out
Q: How using stories and platform to create a culture of dialog and conflict resolution?
The main purpose of the platform is to create a space for people to express their diverse opinions
Montes de Maria - most affected region in Colombian conflict
Colombian guerrillas lived here for many years
One of most rich regions in Colombia, but people could not go there for last 60 years due to conflict
Silvia was here for the first time
Mountains, rivers, many resources
People from Montes de Maria have been invited into project - we have collected their stories - e.g. Palenque (?) African community that has survived in Colombia, maintained their culture for many years
Stories - how to embrace diversity as an opportunity, not as a problem
The most important thing is the feeling of the people - they want to express their voice
Want to make the platform accessible -
Have a video of an orchestra
Could all partners send Silvia their logos to add to the site
Liam
Effort to align deliverables across toolkit and media-making
First iteration of toolkit - scope of youth services initiative - is complete
Next - review the toolkit - bring in design thinking from the project
How to split doc - outcome within that project, other more general, more relatable to SDG’s
Indigenous media-making project - our version was at the pilot stage - since then that project has expanded immensely
How these processes and projects will inform each other
Digital Inclusion summit - saw Alan there
How we weave together movements
Digital literacy and digital access
James
Final stages - first draft of report tomorrow
Outcomes of the report
Biggest drop out in 2ndary school - 50% of young people drop out because of language (change to English)
Inability of system to adjust to their needs - inaccessibility
Poverty
100% of students end up in ? sector jobs - do not require high level of skills (bicitaxi, bus conductors, etc) - many are illegal in the city
90% of young people have cell phones
Use of Whatsapp - 76% have used it, most to socialize, some for business
41% use Facebook
58% do not use social media at all
Many of them do not have smartphones
Many use their phones for a kind of banking -
Issues of managing their own business
None of the youth orgs have inclusive policies or tools
Young people with trauma - from experience of genocide
Need a lot of training, training materials, to guide organisations on how to be inclusive
35% are members of an organisation
Livelihood and how will I survive? Is priority, access to knowledge and skills
Savings and loans
Just back from Malaysia - UN Habitat meeting https://unhabitat.org/
Young indigenous people being given a platform, and within their caucus
Young people in conflict, in occupied territories
Limited tools and guidelines - having these all in “one-stop centre” in how to work with young people, young indigenous people
There is an idea that youth are homogeneous - but need to recognize that they are diverse, their needs may be the same but how you engage them is different
Building diverse youth participation frameworks
Guidelines
Mechanisms to support the voices that don’t exist
One thing to have guidelines and platforms, but need to be accompanied by training, how to link with organisations that do work with youth, with indigenous youth.
Douglas - head of youth unit of UN habitat Nairobi
In line with SDG 11 - inclusive cities
Juliana
Hector was in Fresno last week, local server is working very well
Teachers are updating videos of stories of students
Will have a link very soon to follow the process
Travelling to Medellin this Friday to meet with organisers of festival -
Using Whatsapp to communicate with the youth there - to send first version of the stories
Working with other young women, became part of coordination group of the festival
Could help to create a website, the storytelling tool could be behind the scenes of the festival- stories about how to build a festival about young women and tech, why it’s important, in a city like Medellin, in a country like Colombia
Festival about technology in a broad sense - not just digital tech, but - feminism as tech, etc - women, young people, tech, in a broad sense
Trying to decide on a name for the project - The Planet is the School
taken from a poem by William Ospina from Fresno - The Wonderful Light
Jacquer esCool - they are the female part of that group and they are creating thier own festival
Q: Can we review the contracts, look at deliverables and timing, to receive the next round of funding - what will this process look like?
Q: Young people in Cartagena need to feel that they are not alone - 28 April Jutta is coming to Cartagena (also an event in Medellin April 22-27) - with all the young people - Juliana will be there, would love to have Liam, James, Catalina, IDRC join an online connection? To present our work, talk together for a short time in the afternoon
Silvia will send an email with some details of what she would like to see
We can share our stories of the project
Next face 2 face meeting we can share these stories when we are together (October?)