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Busy weekend

As i finally finish the last of the numerous things that has touched my table for this week, i get to discover that silence and proper scheduling of thinking and time would facilitate the smooth running of any task.
During the last week i pursued a couple of highly desired initiatives that I would love to work on and i put into practice two very great laws that guide human achievement and success.
1. Determination- this makes it possible to pursue something one considers vey important and pertinent. i have always been of the school of thought that your skills and talents would speak for you especially when it is so obvious but i developed a strong urge this month to work and lobby towards achieving my goal.
2. People- the way you treat people would determine how far you go in life.., so if your people skill is not good then you might as well forget about going far in life. As i walk through the ministry..... i started to see people i had met four year before, worked with under a very different capacity and fortunately whose capacities have now changed to positions that are key to my achieving my goal. it is important to note that four years ago this people were not in positions that could directly affect my life, but now they do.

it is imperative to live a life of reference to the importance of time and people as these two are the gifts of God to the earth...and the links to achieving and fulfilling one's vision.

this week is going to be a lovely and favored one.
EwaJesu Asala
Partner/E-cube Consulting Limited
Program Officer/African Women and Youth Organization

June 14, 2009 | 5:06 AM Comments  0 comments

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Bi-Annual Review of '09

It seems as though it was yesterday when we entered into the year 2009,I feel as though January 1 was a click away, yet I look and realise that we have spent almost half of the year already and for me a lot is yet to be done and a lot has been left undone. A few minutes ago myself and a friend of mine went to the Ministry of Youth Development in Nigeria to see the special adviser to the minister to discuss some crucial youth development issues in the country and I realize that in life you create the situation you desire, though your expected result might not be exactly what you want but a lot of times the natural challenges of nature that face the objectives and goals of humans give way in the face of determination and courage..., boldness seem to have become an essential ingredient in the achievement of victories or should I say development. So my question to most people has been how do you see the past 5months and a few days of the year 2009? Do you have a measuring yard stick to which you can measure yourself against? This year I found out also that not everything is about planning..., I love to plan so much so that the changes that has occurred to my life in the past three months has thrown me off balance so much that at one point i began to ask myself and those close to me to define who they think I am so that I can get a sense of direction as to who I am. Some of us will walk through this year as though we have been shocked by electricity...,especially financially..., this is evident in Nigeria with the drop in youth development initiative around the country and the cry of a lot of young people is how government policy is putting Eba (a cassava meal) on their dining table (if you happen to own one!) So shall we then say that the year is all gloomy and depressing, NO!..., definately not..., however it is time to look through, pray through if you are person of faith, re-strategize and factor in the dynamic situations happening around the world..., I caught a glimpse of the news a few minutes ago on CNN and they were outlining the increase in unemployment in European countries and my thought was..., Oh GOD! more people are leaving this side of the world for the same places where unemployment is on the rise..., Nigeria and its dynamic government and the cry of the masses on the street about the dormant nature of the government makes one wonder if there would ever be acceleration in growth rate of the country...,I believe true national growth rate is constituted by individual growth rate of its people...,how well are we growing as Nigerians?....,Now thats a million naira question. So I say to the brave hearted ones...,'take the bull by the horn' a lot of people are waiting for your brain child. That talent lying dormant within you might be what will save your household, community, state, country and just maybe the world.
EwaJesu Asala
Partner/E-cube Consulting Limited
Program Officer/African Women and Youth Organization

June 11, 2009 | 9:06 AM Comments  0 comments

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Bi annual Review
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It seems as though it was yesterday when we entered into the year 2009,I feel as though January 1 was a click away, yet I look and realise that we have spent almost half of the year already and for me a lot is yet to be done and a lot has been left undone.

A few minutes ago myself and a friend of mine went to the Ministry of Youth Development in Nigeria to see the special adviser to the minister to discuss some crucial youth development issues in the country and I realize that in life you create the situation you desire, though your expected result might not be exactly what you want but a lot of times the natural challenges of nature that face the objectives and goals of humans give way in the face of determination and courage..., boldness seem to have become an essential ingredient in the achievement of victories or should I say development.

So my question to most people has been how do you see the past 5months and a few days of the year 2009? Do you have a measuring yard stick to which you can measure yourself against?

This year I found out also that not everything is about planning..., I love to plan so much so that the changes that has occurred to my life in the past three months has thrown me off balance so much that at one point i began to ask myself and those close to me to define who they think I am so that I can get a sense of direction as to who I am. Some of us will walk through this year as though we have been shocked by electricity...,especially financially..., this is evident in Nigeria with the drop in youth development initiative around the country and the cry of a lot of young people is how government policy is putting Eba (a cassava meal) on their dining table (if you happen to own one!)

So shall we then say that the year is all gloomy and depressing, NO!..., definately not..., however it is time to look through, pray through if you are person of faith, re-strategize and factor in the dynamic situations happening around the world..., I caught a glimpse of the news a few minutes ago on CNN and they were outlining the increase in unemployment in European countries and my thought was..., Oh GOD! more people are leaving this side of the world for the same places where unemployment is on the rise...,

Nigeria and its dynamic government and the cry of the masses on the street about the dormant nature of the government makes one wonder if there would ever be acceleration in growth rate of the country...,I believe true national growth
rate is constituted by individual growth rate of its people...,how well are we growing as Nigerians?....,Now thats a million naira question.

So I say to the brave hearted ones...,'take the bull by the horn' a lot of people are waiting for your brain child. That talent lying dormant within you might be what will save your household, community, state, country and just maybe the world.

June 11, 2009 | 8:59 AM Comments  0 comments

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Uganda and the Common Wealth youth Forum

On sunday l arrived in Uganda for the CommonWealth Youth Forum and for the last three days the preparation and the networking has been quite nice.

Nigeria Has two offcial delegates at the forum in the person of Dabesaki the Nigerian Youth Rep and Myself but at the forum l discovered a sweet Nigerisn who is part of the International Planning Committee for the forum Mo Adefeso and another Nigerian living in Diaspora by Miss Soweton, so as always you find Nigeria having a very reasonable representation and this time aroound the representation is of high content and not political at all.

The forum is showing me alot of things about culture and the way of life.The way other people around the world are living their lives and believes are so different yet the needs and the meeting point for young people is so alike.
Today, at the opening ceremony, the UN representative talked about poverty in Urban settlement that l felt so bad that our governments are not planning for the disaster that might happen if we donot work at contrlling urbanization.


Of the presentation the president of Uganda's spech captivated me the most...he really held the audience in his opening speech and l hope that has he would be cheering the CHOGM meeting, he would help in pushing the dlibrations of the youth forum to the heads of states to conider well.

Kampala was SWEET!

November 14, 2007 | 1:37 PM Comments  0 comments

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PICTURES AND COMMUNICATION


Today, young people are redefining the means of communication in a way that probably the human race has never seen before.
It said that the current generation would rather surf the internet for information than read the newspaper and the trend that we are taking as young people is beginning to threaten and force new initiative on the old methods of communication.
It’s possible for a mother not to be able to get the attention of her 13year old child even when she is screaming his/her name a few yards from the teenager because there is an iPod glued to the ear of the teenager playing the latest hit on the top ten chat.
Does this mean that the only thing that sells for young people is entertainment and fun? My answer is NO. However young people of today are constantly looking for an easier and a “cool” means of passing across information and one of it is the camera phone or camera enabled gadget.
Due to our constantly active and creative minds, young people’s flare for visual pictures has a means of speaking without talking is on the increase.
Pictures of events, travels , fun filled moments, great works and staggering information on the condition of life are passed across to other young people, friends, relatives and appropriate higher authorities through pictures posted on social sites, blogs and even through multimedia messages.
Newspaper establishments are now taking comments from readers on event and happenings in their environment through messaging with visual images of pictures on phone.
This trend and fashion as used today was usually not the case in the time past, now you don’t have to be a professional photographer to pass across a good picture image to the next person.
How will this trend affect the future of media? Hmm! First and foremost it would determine a lot about what people think of a story and how fast it reaches them. Imagine that the picture of a riot in a town in Nigeria has been passed across to over 1000 young people within the hour it happened and one of the chooses to post in on his/her blog of 10,000 viewers and the next day a media report watering down the riot is placed in a newspaper, which one do you think people would believe?
It would definitely ensure transparency in reporting and reduce the number of unethical doctored reports that media houses report about young people in various countries because it means that our media is right in our hands and we are already using it!
It would change the perspective the society has about young people and create the image that we want to project and not the one sod to us on TV and in the magazines.
More importantly, it will be fun way of reaching across to ourselves and building new bridges across old boundaries and that is ‘COOL’

November 9, 2007 | 7:12 AM Comments  0 comments

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World and Opposite
Translations available in: English (original) | French


The International Youth Forum in Sham el Sheikh organized by Susan Mubarak’s Women’s International Peace Movement, brought together young people from over 100 countries around the world and certain things became obvious.

In Africa, root problems of leadership and poverty has eaten deep into our lives that l wonder if the hope of bridging the North and South divide is possible.

My reasons for feeling this way can easily be traced to the fact that in Zambia almost 85 percent of Zambians live below the World Bank poverty threshold of a dollar a day.
Darfur region of Sudan more than 3.5 million affected and 2 million people displaced by the war.

Yet in this same world in which we exist, two countries have spent 450 Billion Dollars on the war in Iraq but l ask. But l wonder what would have happened if this money was spent on development in Iraq, Sudan and Liberia.

Why we create new problems in the world when we have not solved the root problems that exist in South America, in Africa and Asia.

My focus: SOLVE ROOT PROBLEMS BEFORE FOCUSING ON ITS FRUITS.

I feel we are in a lost world and am sure that this is not about me but about that child in Darfur who has not eaten today and would have a better health if given half the subsidy that is allocated of American or European cows. The young lady in Iraq who is not sure that she would be alive by the end of today, the child solder turn civilian in Liberia who is lost and confused about what would happen to him next and millions of children who die of malaria and HIV/AIDS every year. The view should move from me to us(the whole world at large)

The world today has a lot of suffering as a result of conflict, lack of dialogue, terrorism, wisdom of weapon as compared to wisdom of peace.

It’s time to mobilize the youths, the celebrities, the politicians, the private sector and the public sector to realize that it is becoming ‘cool’ to promote peace and development.
The Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) has failed us all it’s time to adopt the Wisdom of Peace (WP).

There is a beauty and uniqueness about being a young person and it creates magic, even when the system does not work, even when the challenges are great.

Don’t be a penguin whose life depends solely on eating fish and being with other penguins only. Do something today. Be the magic of your country


Thank You
EwaJesu Asala






September 3, 2007 | 5:28 AM Comments  0 comments

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My desert Experience

On the 31st of August l left lagos Nigeria for Sham el Sheik for the International Youth Conference and the first thing that struck me about egyptians is their jovial nature.

Right from the crew members of Egypt air in Nigeria to the ones in cairo it was a beautiful encounter all through which is quite contrary to what l use to believ about arab countries.


The passion and desert experience shows the beauty and the natural force associated with the desert and its people which shares a similar attribute with young people around the world.

l was extremly glad when it was announced that l was the prize winner for the Cyber Peace Contest Theme: Youth Dialogue. I owe the Susan Mubarak International Women's Peace Movement my beautiful wide screen Laptop which was the 1st prize.l felt like Alice in Wonderland yesterday...so many pictures and interviews by various media oganisation at the conference.

Today's experience at the youth and media session where we examined the topic 'Is the Media Youth Friendly' showed very clearly that young people have a lot of work to do to change and reverse the current distructive trend around the world

Young people can create majic and l hope that when I represent Africa at teh plenary closing ceremony I would be able to shed that enthusiastic light on the majic that young people have.

I love everything I have seen of Egypt

September 2, 2007 | 11:24 AM Comments  1 comments

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Discovery mail on blogs

Interesting l got this mail today and l was wondering why it coincided with my thought on Kids at DIGITEST camp...l was going through some of the works of the participants and l saw a very clear difference in the works of male dominated teams and female dominated teams and for such a camp you would normally expect that the majority shoud be boy.
Surprisingly the data l worked on during registration showed very clearly that the camp had 50% percent male and female participant.
What l enjoy most about this discovery is that Digital Peers International did not have to give incentives to females to apply and attend the event."it was a willing development'

The expressions of the different sexes in designing and presenting their website is different but equally innovative and intelligent.
Let me share the mail l got today with you..please find below

Women Are Half of All Bloggers - But Media Aren't Noticing
By Jennifer L. Pozner
The Women's Media Center
Wednesday 01 August 2007

If you get your news from, well, the news media, you can be forgiven if you didn't know that nearly 800 women gathered in Chicago last weekend for the third annual convention of BlogHer, an online community of more than 13,000 blogging women diverse in age, ethnicity and political persuasion. According to a search of the Nexis news database, only three Chicago newspapers covered the conference, as if this national assemblage of women writers and videographers were simply a local story. Not one national network or cable news broadcast deigned to mention it.

Compare that to the glut of coverage bestowed on YearlyKos, a conference for left-leaning bloggers made popular by the blustering A-list boys of the "netroots." In the month leading up to Kos's gathering this coming weekend, also in Chicago, the conference's perceived political power has been discussed in print and broadcast outlets from regional newspapers such as the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Austin American Statesman to major dailies such as the Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, and debated on MSNBC, ABC, Fox News, PBS and, for the satirically inclined, The Colbert Report on Comedy Central.

Despite Pew research reporting that women are actually 50% of all people who blog, corporate journalists and independent bloggers alike often prefer to fall back on the hand-wringing question, "Where are the women bloggers?" They'd know the answer if they took the time to seek us out as news sources, read our commentaries or cover events such as BlogHer.

If many believe that blogging is a primarily male sport, it is partially because old-school gender disparities in resource allocation, power and popularity long entrenched in traditional news media are replicating themselves online. In the blogosphere, young men - mostly white and mostly economically comfortable - link to, write about, promote and fund their buddies' blogs; and corporate media play star-makers, quoting, profiling and featuring the punditry of this New Boys Network. As is hardly surprising to those of us who monitor media representations of women, women who blog (especially those who write about feminist issues) are off the radar.

Yet, in massive numbers, women are using new media tools including blogs, podcasts, vlogs (video blogs), and other information communication technologies (ICTs) as a means of self-expression (craft bloggers), connection to community (mommy bloggers), political organizing (the "netroots"), and citizen journalism. They're also going online to monitor the media, as dozens of women do every day on WIMN's Voices, the group blog of Women In Media & News, the media analysis, education and advocacy organization I direct.

At BlogHer 2007, young anti-corporate activists and suburban grandmothers, GOP operatives and Democratic pollsters, DIY purse-makers and tenured academics learned new tech skills, built professional and social networks and, of course, partied together. By the end of the weekend, they chose Global Health as a focal point for collective organizing as part of the BlogHers Act initiative, designed to leverage the power of women's blogs to make a positive impact on one major issue each year.

As a speaker in a workshop about strategies to make politicians and the press address women voters' questions throughout Election '08, I offered the recent CNN/YouTube Democratic Presidential Debate as a case study of the possibilities - and the pitfalls - of using new media to alter standard corporate media scripts. The partnership, hyped as a revolutionary collaboration between traditional and citizen journalism, offered a unique opportunity for individual Americans to shape media dialog, but also exemplified the limitations of such engagement as corporate media remain the gatekeepers of public debate.

One telling difference between this "real people ask the questions" debate and the usually cozy confabs between politicians and Beltway journalists was illustrated in a question on energy policy recorded by independent documentarian Stephanie Mackley. She addressed the candidates from her bathroom, pointing to the compact fluorescent light bulbs she uses there to "decrease my personal energy use ... But my question for you is, how is the United States going to decrease its energy consumption in the first place? In other words, how will your policies influence Americans rather than just using special light bulbs?"

It was a brilliant moment. By asking about broad policy proposals rather than superficial band-aid approaches to environmental crises, Mackley pierced through the usual government - and media - spin that attempts to frame collective problems as if they are caused, and can be solved, by individuals rather than by wide scale societal responses. Yet when she finished speaking, CNN's Anderson Cooper watered down Mackley's very clear emphasis on policy by rephrasing her question, asking the candidates, "How do you get Americans to conserve?" Then, when Senator Chris Dodd talked about levying a corporate carbon tax on polluters, demanding energy efficient auto standards and moving away from fossil fuels as steps to quell global warming, Cooper rebutted with, "The question was about personal sacrifice."

No, actually, it wasn't - not by a long shot. The issue of collective, societal responsibility was obfuscated, and this time the politicians didn't have to bury political policy and corporate responsibility under the sheen of personal choice; CNN's silver-haired golden boy did it for them.

Worse yet, during a campaign in which a woman is for the first time considered the front-runner for a major party's presidential nomination, only 11 of the 39 questions CNN selected were asked by women. Not surprisingly, issues affecting women's economic, social, sexual, reproductive and political rights were ignored or given short shrift. The fact that YouTube and CNN would bill their debate as a bold new step for participatory democracy yet would choose not to balance the participation of women and men indicates the need for media accountability in this brave new world of online communication, despite the much-ballyhooed gender equity it was supposed to bring.

As Cooper's reframing of Mackley's question - and CNN's choice to allow men to ask 70% of all questions - demonstrates, the Internet will not "liberate us" from sexist, racist or otherwise commercially compromised media. After all, the top 10 most popular news websites include most of the same corporate outlets that have marginalized and misrepresented women for decades: NYTimes.com, CNN.com, FoxNews.com, and their competitors. This is why, as I told BlogHer conference participants, we still need to invest time, energy and resources into long-term strategies for improving mainstream media content, production and policy. There is no simple, "five minutes a day" way, no Improving Election Coverage for Dummies booklet, to transforming the media. But as bloggers and as activists, we can use the Internet and ICTs as key components of a larger, multi-layered strategy for media justice.

To preserve our democracy and to advance women's rights, our agenda must include critical content analysis, media literacy, strategic communications, support of independent, community and ethnic media and - as blogger Elizabeth Edwards declared during her closing keynote for the conference - media policy reforms such as reversing the anti-democratic effects of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and fighting for Net Neutrality.




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For more information, see Stephanie Mackley's follow-up video blog critiquing her experience as part of the CNN/YOUTube debate; and WIMN asks Elizabeth Edwards about media policy reform.
Source:http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080107WB.shtml



August 29, 2007 | 12:50 PM Comments  0 comments

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NIja of Today

One would wonder that since the new government came into being things should change ...however my experiance recently is giving the impression that chaning Nigeria might be a tough thing.
In the Camp where l happen to be one of the cordinators... We decidedto share certin things and at this point l have to commend the children at the camp but it became clear that when children misbehave there is the unseen hand of the adults behind it.

the children (620 in number at the camp) had nothing to lie abouut when collecting their T-shirts (DIGITEST branded Tshirts) but one of the teachers accompanying his students who was not part of the volunteering team tried to pass off a 16 pack T-shirt for 15 and was discovered in the process.
The whole thing happened les than 3mins but it struck home that something is fundamentally wrong when the thosexepected to teach values are the ones breaking social values, how then would they be ableto teach it.

interesting, l interviewed Dr. Nike Osofisan yesterday for the TV magazine DIGITEST LOGON and it was quite interesting talking to the first woman to get a P.HD in Computer science in Nigeria...l begin to think that though we are not perfect but we are going somwhere great.

My fear is that we would not wait for eternity to get to the required place we aught to be

August 24, 2007 | 6:08 AM Comments  1 comments

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Experience sharing on DIGITEST


Sometimes it is said that it is very good to olunteer and help develop people...however, l ask my self alot of times that why am l at DIGITEST for th 4th time.

Since 2004 l have been volunteering for Digital Peers International (www.digitalpeers.org) o the annual IT camp for children DIGITEST.

Volunteers sleep by 2am alot of times and are up by 5am and l really have to tell you that DIGITEST cannot pay one for uch eeforts....but l appreciate it alot of times when one of the children walks up to me to tell how wonderful l have been.


Talk of different opion...l wish this kind of camping would b more than DIGTEST is.


Personally..., m beging to believe that volunteers is far frm money as the sky is form the earth.

Cheers
EJ

August 23, 2007 | 7:57 AM Comments  0 comments

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