When Mushamir Opened His Gmail...

Indeed, One Young World and the Impact Report has been dominating our lives (and inbox) ever since. We are striving hard to complete this in full faith that the final product will be received most positively by the Nation and the World.

Meeting with Airin Zainul (Group GM of 8tv & NTV7) and Kit Yow (Brand Manager).

Meeting with Airin Zainul (Group GM of 8tv & NTV7) and Kit Yow (Brand Manager).

Following up with our first meeting with Mr Ahmad Izham Omar, COO of 8TV, we have been in touch with the group regularly. Today, we met up with Airin Zainul and Kit Yow regarding sponsorship matters.

As usual, me and Jon left prepared for their Studio Headquarters next to 1Utama Shopping Complex. Fellow writer Lionel couldn't make it at the last minute unfortunately.

Meeting in the 'War Room', we set up the projectors and waited for them to arrive. 

Coming to the room, we greeted each other, and set out to explain about our initiative with the One Young World Impact Report through our power-point slides. Quite a number of challenging questions came our way but we answered them all. 

As TV show producers, what they want most is airtime, they explained. Publicity is not a problem, they will find slots for us for they like the content. Both of them really wanted to help us by giving us the platform to talk about the report as well as sponsorship matters ( i.e. online, Tonton.com.my). Furthermore, they strongly suggested us making an appearance on the 8TV Quickie & The Breakfast Show (ntv7). 

Even though the sponsorship matter has still not been resolved, we were happy with having solved the publicity question. They'll also Tweet for us, and have been asking if we have Tweeted much. So far we've Tweeted these blog posts only to #OneYoungWorld, with no replies as of yet.

Mushamir, Airin, Kit, and Jonathan.

Overall, they want to help us through the media, to show that Malaysia can be proud over what youths, Malaysian youths can, and has, done.

What Youth Category are you?

This is  a classification of what type of youth activist one could fit into.


There are Youth Activists, Professionals, Artists and Media Partners. 


The One Young World Impact Report Team believes we are in the Youth Media Partners category, obviously, due to the nature of our report in trying to connect with audiences in Malaysia and the world.


The Impact report has also collected projects done by youths from all sectors and categories, be it Artists, Media Partners or Professional. 

Of which category do you think do you fit in?

Youth Activists / Youth Workers.

Youth activists are people who are actively take part in positive change within their communities around the world through their projects, trainings, peer-to-peer teaching initiatives and social enterprises.

1. Youth Professionals.

Young people involved in professional careers or leading their own social enterprises non and for-profit businesses. They are able to share their valuable practical experience and discuss how businesses work for people and the planet.

1. Youth Artists, Musicians and young people interested in art.

Young people interested in art are those who seek to create new and powerful tools to tackle global issues through their art. They are painters, dancers, sculptures, actors, musicians, etc and are all trying to share their important experiences.

 1.    Young Media Partners.

Young Media Partners can be involved in many communication forms such as; Print, radio, TV and online news papers companies, international press groups and agencies. They present young people in a positive light – who feel that youth are not just citizens-in-waiting, but people who can actually contribute now in constructive ways to community, national and global improvement.

Source: http://worldyouthfestival.az

The Meeting With Bhg. Datuk Mohd Badlisham Ghazali, Chief Executive Officer, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC)

Arriving at MDEC's quaint Cyberjaya Headquarters.

 

We took a wrong turn to the wrong room at first.

Datuk Badlisham, and me discuss about the upcoming report. He commented on the title of the report, and hence we have added the tag line "Youths Are All Talk No Action?". 

Datuk Badlisham jumped in the bandwagon with his approval to print the One Young World Impact Report with flying colors. He makes note that many rural Malaysians especially do not know about the opportunities and projects that can benefit them. There are project models which can inspire  those most affected in rural areas to create change themselves. 

The report must also be translated into Bahasa Malaysia so as to increase the accessibility of reading this report to all Malaysians.

The meeting, a success, ended with MDeC's firm support of sponsoring the printing costs of the report - and as a bonus, they will be giving us their MSC jackets!

Thank you MDeC!

Sneak Preview: The new cover page.

ARE YOUTHS 'ALL TALK NO ACTION'?
One Young World 'IMPACT' Report 2011
A follow up to One Young World 'Our Future Says' Report 2010

Featuring
68 youth leaders
62 societies / clubs / organizations
7,536 volunteers
147,936 people impacted

Announcing Our Meeting With Bhg. Datuk Mohd Badlisham Ghazali, Chief Executive Officer, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC)

Tomorrow, we are meeting the YBhg. Datuk Mohd Badlisham Ghazali, Chief Executive Officer, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC).

As a team, we are to discuss about their options for publishing our One Young World Youth Impact Report, just like they have published the first report last year. 

We are also to encourage them to sponsor us to the Second Annual One Young World Summit 2011 in Zurich, Switzerland.

MDec oversees Malaysia’s National ICT (Information & Communication Technology) Initiative and with its logo "Driving Transfromation", we believe that we are on par with their Vision to bring forth "Leadership in the Information Age" with our One Young World Impact Report.

For more information about MDeC please check: http://www.mdec.my/about.php

An Important Meeting with the COO of 8TV

 Lionel and Jonathan reviewing the presentation.

 At the Media Prima HQ, which houses TV networks such as TV 3, 8TH, TV9, ntv7, radio networks such as Hot FM, Fly FM, One Fm as well as advertising boards under its brand name Big Tree.

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We the team met at Centerpoint at 9am and brainstormed until 10.45am. We did the One Young World presentation powerpoint together and decided that the angle we will use is - to highlight how our report aims to serve two purpose : give the youth leaders the recognition they need, and to encourage the young people that it is possible to make a change.

We met with Mr Ahmad Izham Omar, COO of 8TV. He was really, really friendly. We started the meeting at 11.10am and went really quick in explaining to him what One Young World, 'Our Future Says' and 'Impact' reports are all about. And finally, we asked him about the sponsorship.

He looked at it, and having 50% covered by myHarapan was really a great help. He said that he will look into it and speak to the sponsorship department. He also mentioned that it's a really good programme, and we believe he sees the goodness of OYW.