Christina's Kontaxi WEB LOG: April 2009

The makeITfair campaign (info: http://makeitfair.org/) is a European awareness raising project that focuses on the social and environmental problems that arise within the electronic products cycle.

On 13th to 15th of March a Youth Round Table was successfully organized!

Friday 13 March 2009 at Heineken Brewery

Opening

- Theatrical sketch by Waterlanders - (info: http://www.myspace.com/waterlanders)

- MakeITfair song by Emiel Jurjens aka rapper El D - (listen live: http://www.myspace.com/alecjweatherwood)

- First hand experiences shared by:

Juna Yimprasert - Thai Labour Campaign (TLC) - Thailand (info: http://www.thailabour.org/)

Cecilia V. Tuico - Workers Assistance Centre (WAC) – Philippines (info: http://www.wacphilippines.com/)
- Documentary on Congo’s tin mines

Journeyman Pictures - DRC - Grand Theft Congo - 15min 40sec - 4 July 2005 (Ref: 2705) (info: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=18683) or: ‘Grand Theft Congo – DRC’ at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1FQmUQ1-mM

Saturday 14 March at Art A08 (info: http://www.A08.nl)

- Workshops

Cornelia Heydenreich & Esther De Haan ‘Shareholder activism’

Tim Steinweg ‘ProcureITfair’ (info: http://procureitfair.org/)
Juna Yimprasert ‘Empowering workers in the South’

Tom Dowdall ‘Greenpeace International’ (info: http://www.greenpeace.org/electronics & http://www.greenpeace.org/climateleaders)

- Examples from Dutch Youth Organizations:

1) Time to Turn organization (info: http://www.timetoturn.nl/) - a freeze action, to ask attention for injustice in the production chain of cellphones / watch it live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87dWx6DXrwg

2) KrachtvanCongo organization (info: www.KrachtvanCongo.nl) – watch live the Clean Call for Congo project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJMtYGgL-lw

- MakeITfair campaign in Finland by Repu - Pro Fair Trade Finland (info: http://www.repu.fi/en / http://www.makeitfair.fi / http://reilukauppa.fi / http://www.fairtradeaction.net) & Changemaker Youth network Finland (info: http://www.changemaker.fi/)

- Stijn Otten ‘How to get funding for your make IT fair project’ (Vice-president/International Affairs Dutch National Youth Council

- Discussion with Mike Loch

Director EHS Strategic Initiatives of Motorola &
Vice President of Global e-Sustainability Initiative - GeSI (info: http://www.gesi.org)
interesting: Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) group of companies (info: http://www.eicc.info/) & Electronic Industry Code of Conduct - (info: http://www.eicc.info/code.html)

- Brainstorming (or else more correctly Thought-showering) with Ronald van Es & Maia Wouterse from the Dutch National Youth Council

Sunday 15 March 2009 at Filmmuseum (info: http://www.filmmuseum.nl)

THE AIM: TO RAISE AWARENESS ON SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

THAT ARISE WITHIN THE ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS CYCLE

The whole weekend live from Matthijs de Raad (GGTV):

makeITfair Youth Round Table 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onIoMlZX66k

& in short: makeITfair Youth Round Table 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKuxUYzY-g0

Many thanks to Ginney (Programme Officer makeITfair Youth Round Table), All the Youth from Morgen - www.studentenvoormorgen.nl & the Dutch National Youth Council - http://www.jeugdraad.nl/, Esther De Haan & Irene Schipper (SOMO - http://somo.nl/), Cornelia Heydenreich (Germanwatch – http://www.germanwatch.org), Monika Matus (KARAT – http://www.karat.org), Annika Torstensson (Fair Trade Center Sweden - http://www.fairtradecenter.se/), Päivi Pöyhönen (FinnWatch - http://www.finnwatch.org/) Pauline Overeem (GoodElectronics - http://goodelectronics.org/) and last but not least Gerry our Inspiratrice (http://www.metgerry.nl)

Organizations participated:

Vlaamse Jeugdraad - http://www.vlaamsejeugdraad.be/

INEX- Association for Voluntary Activities (SDA) - http://www.inexsda.cz/

Together Czech Republic - http://www.together.cz/

MS Action Aid - http://www.ms.dk/

Federation of Young European Greens - http://www.fyeg.org/

Aegee Europe - http://www.karl.aegee.org/

Global Education Network of Young Europeans (GLEN) http://www.glen-europe.org

Janun e.V. http://www.janun.de / (Projekt: Konsum Global – http://www.Konsum-Global.de)

Mediterranean SOS Network – MedSOS – http://www.medsos.gr

International Cultural Youth Exchange Germany - http://www.icye.org/

Move Your World - http://www.moveyourworld.nl/