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Abdallah Diwan
Abdallah Diwan was born in Alexandria, Egypt. Abdallah holds an MBA from the Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt, and earned his Bachelor of Law (L.L.B.) from Alexandria University (English Department), Egypt. Abdallah is currently acting as the Youth Development Specialist for Reach Out to Asia (ROTA) part of Qatar Foundation. After leading a number of successful youth programs and campaigns in Alexandria, Egypt and the MENA region, Abdallah co-founded The Sustainable Development Association (SDA) in Alexandria in 2003, one of the first youth led NGOs in Egypt, whose board is...
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Abe Fergusson
Abraham Fergusson is living proof that the information superhighway can truly connect the world. This student of El Dorado Secondary Comprehensive has been surfing the Internet since he was 7 years old. He first became a "technophile" through his involvement with the International Education and Resource Network of Trinidad and Tobago (IEARNtnt). This non-profit group uses global communication technology to allow young people in Trinidad and Tobago to connect with more than 4,000 schools in 108 countries around the world and become "global citizens". Abe is an active member of the Port-of-...
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Mathias Haas
Mathias Haas is 24 years old and Founder and CEO of SuperSocial Marketing New Media Agency. He studies at the Law College at the University of Vienna. As a social entrepreneur he initiated the Charity Art and Journalism Project Findia09 and organized fundraisers for "Licht ins Dunkel" (an Austrian telethon). For his projects, among them Facebook Application Intercultural, Findia09, and the YA Friends Platform, he has already won international awards. Mathias Haas lives for his passion: travelling, learning about new cultures, and adventures.
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Adam Itzkowitz
Adam Itzkowitz is a Co-Founder of Greenlighted.com, a social venture engaging companies, causes, and individuals in online challenges to create collective impact. Greenlighted was a winner of the 2009 World Summit Youth Awards. Adam is the former Executive Director of Orbis Institute, a US non-profit organization focused on global leadership development. Prior to his work at Orbis Institute, Adam worked with Electro-Chance on energy saving technologies, worked in management at Barnes and Noble, and worked with several organizations as a strategic planning consultant. Adam currently serves on...
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Dylan Mahalingam
Dylan Mahalingam is one of the co-founders of Lil' MDGs, a unique international development and youth empowerment organization; Lil' MDGs is now an initiative of Jayme's Fund. Dylan founded Lil' MDGs, a non-profit based in New Hampshire, when he was 9 years old. Lil' MDGs mission is to leverage the power of the Internet, digital, and social media to educate, engage, inspire, and empower children in all corners of the world to forward the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Lil' MDGs has mobilized over 3 million children worldwide to work on a variety of issues and now has more...
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Abdullah Mosaad
Abdullah is a Young Egyptian male who has started his voluntary and development work with Future Youth Club and National Council for Youth in Egypt, then he started to work locally, nationally, regionally and internationally individually and with different organization. In 2007 he participated with “The League of Arab States” in some events with Youth & Sports Department, then he participated in League of Arab States Youth Forum 2007. He started to work regionally through networking with his friends. He started with some friends founding "Tawasol"Group where he built his IT skills and...
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Armen Orujyan
Armen Orujyan, is Founder and Chairman of the Board of Athgo Corporation, a US nonprofit organization since 1999. For over a decade, Armen has been developing and providing entrepreneurial platforms for young people with leading global institutions. These efforts have included coordination with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs; UN NGO Section; UN University; UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States; UN Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and...
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Rapelang Rabana
Rapelang Rabana is just 26 years old, but has made great strides in the business world, and she's doing things her own way, too. She has some invaluable advice for any woman interested in starting her own business. When she was only 23, Rapelang started her own business, and she has been named as one of "200 Young South Africans You Must Take To Lunch" by the Mail & Guardian. This year the Research and Development arm of Swiss headquartered TelFree Communications, under its Global Head of R&D, Rapelang Rabana, launched the world’s first unified telecommunications hub which is now...
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Francesca Ronchi
Francesca Ronchi was born in Milan, Italy. She specializes in classical studies. Along side English, she speaks German and French. Since early 2005 she works for the MEDICI Framework and eContent Award based in Italy. In 2010, she supported the WSYA contest in New York, as an Ambassador. Till date, she is still an Amabassador for the WSYA.
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Sylvester Tetey
Sylvester Tetey, a Ghanaian national graduated from the University of Ghana and is currently undertaking a national service as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Information Studies, University of Ghana. As part of his work he teaches Systems Analysis and Design, Information Storage and Retrieval and Microsoft Access Database. As a young I.T. professional, he is the general manager of Levels Multimedia, an entity that seeks to provide IT solutions and socially aimed at helping the youth develop the best in e-content and creativity. Levels Multimedia is a young initiative geared towards...
