Global youth will demand a billion new jobs when they come of age. Yet for many marginalised or out-of-school youth, traditional routes to employment and entrepreneurship are closed. In the developing world, students with access to education face outdated curricula, limited access to new technologies and few connections to the marketplace. This session will discuss new approaches in creating a smooth school to-work transition for youth including what skills are needed today, how to foster innovation, and how to engage and inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs and employers.
Session Description
Time & Location
Time:
09:00 - 10:30, Thursday, March 31, 2011 BSTSpeakers
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SpeakerStudent Outreach Programme Manager, TEDxKiberaTabitha Wambugha Tongoi founded Project: A Book for Change at the age of 17 to address the insufficiency of textbooks in most Kenyan high schools in Kenya. Since its inception, “ABC” has raised over 20,000 books for 36 schools from all over Kenya. Having recently graduated from the African…
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SpeakerManaging Director, Asia, Rockefeller FoundationDeepali Khanna is the Managing Director of the Asia Regional Office of the Rockefeller Foundation overseeing the foundation's policy, advocacy, grant-making, and strategic partnerships in Asia. She previously managed Smart Power for Rural Development, Foundation’s flagship initiative in India…
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SpeakerFounder & Executive Director, Fundación ParaguayaDr. Martin Burt is social entrepreneur who has developed two social innovations: the financially self-sufficient agricultural high school model and the Poverty Stoplight, a new poverty metric and coaching methodology that is currently being implemented by more than 510,000 families and 850…
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SpeakerFounder, CAMFEDA lifelong educationalist, I began my career teaching English at secondary level before focusing on children excluded from mainstream education. Following research in Zimbabwe, I founded CAMFED International to support and advance the education of rural girls in sub-Saharan Africa. The…