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! 
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) -
Cecilia V. Tuico - Workers Assistance Centre (WAC) –
- Documentary on
Journeyman Pictures - DRC - Grand Theft
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
- MakeITfair campaign in
- 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
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
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
Move Your World - http://www.moveyourworld.nl/
Amavet – http://www.amavet.sk
Swedish Red Cross Youth - http://www.rkuf.se/
Chalmers Students for Sustainability - http://css.chs.chalmers.se/
Rättviseakademin (Swedish Cooperative Centre, SCC) - http://www.rattviseakademin.se/
Funky Dragon - http://www.funkydragon.org/
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