The Internet unites people. London for the first time hosts the One Young World forum of young leaders invited through http://www.facebook.com/ the popular social network. The organizers of the forum include the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu. The forum is supported by brands Google, Facebook, МТV.
1,5 thousand young men aged 25 gathered in London after being selected through this popular social network. To become delegates, they have put their ideas and projects in politics, economy and business on the Net. The forum includes 19 delegates from Russia. They do not belong to any political party or youth movement, but are just creative and socially active people. Their projects got the majority of votes Facebook, said Key Robertson one of forum's organizers:
delegates are chosen openly. They are mainly students who applied on Facebook on the equal basis. They have shown that they have leadership qualities and take part in social projects.
On February 8th, the first day of the forum, representatives of Russia, Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries work in special sections. Among them is a 25-year-old Valeria Samborskaya from Kiev.
She's an educational expert and works in the company which send Ukrainian students to study to Great Britain. Annually she holds international seminars and round tables featuring educational experts from Ukraine, Russia, Europe and the US to discuss the interaction in international education. Valeria was sent to One Young World for her activity. She will make a report on Educational Expertise. The «VoR» asked Valeria through the Internet: «Today Ukraine sees serious political drama. Do you, as a youth leader who represents the country in London, know, what Ukraine needs?" Valeria Samborskaya said the Ukraine needs skilled experts with intellectual background who ready to live in the common world where all borders and differences begin to be blurred due to globalization and hi-tech development . For this purpose it is necessary to know foreign languages, to understand each other, to know about problems which the humanity faces.
Forum pays much attention not only to education, but also to the development of political leadership, changes of the role of mass media, dialogue of religions. Participants can put forward their proposals how to improve the world's political and economic climate. Organizers claim to consider even the most fantastic ideas, as history shows , many faults could have been avoided, if people had believed Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein and Sergey Korolev in time. The forum will end in a final resolution which will forwarded to the forthcoming G8 session.
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