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WBI CAP map, courtesy of Global Changemakers

What's up GYACers? From now until Saturday, you have the opportunity to…

The British Council Global Changemakers, a close partner of the Global Youth Anti-Corruption Network, recently sent me to Brussels to help facilitate its Euro-Africa Youth Summit. A few days before the summit, I was informed me that I will be speaking at a high-level policy summit alongside European Union (EU) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders. Together with Paola Hjelt, co-founder & former co-director of Global Changemakers, we pored over the main points that…

On Tuesday, 24 April 2012, the third edition of Fair Play will open! The Fair Play global anti-corruption music video competition and global anti-corruption campaign is presented by the JMI Foundation, the Global Youth Anti-Corruption Network, and the World Bank Institute. Artists are invited to submit their…

To those who have been anxiously waiting for the WBI CAPs to accept applications again, the long wait is over. You can now breathe -- or not: you need to work hard on your application to get your project running, with the seed grant of US$3,000. For the next two weeks, from 1-15 May 2012, you can send in your applications for WBI CAPs.…

British Council Philippines recently organized a seminar series entitled "Digital Technology for Social Change," to be rolled out in five major cities across the country. Its primary aim is to explore the tremendous potential of new/digital/social media and ICT in driving social change, especially among the youth and in the context of developing countries like the Philippines. Leveraged properly, ICT is a powerful tool for promoting social responsibility; it provides great potential for…

Hi friends,

If you've been following our Twitter (something we strongly encourage you to do, with or without a Twitter account), you would know that the much-awaited and widely-cited Corruption Perceptions Index or CPI for this year 2011 came out two weeks ago. If you haven't checked it yet, head over to its website by clicking…

The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) started yesterday (28 November) in Durban, South Africa. I find it quite providential that a few days ago, I was just speaking about climate governance, of which I am no expert, but as an anti-corruption advocate, I felt that I had the responsibility and obligation to share the urgency of bringing transparency,…

Recently, I was accepted to present a panel at the 2nd World Summit for Youth Volunteering in Barranquilla, Colombia. The topic was "Mobilizing Student Volunteers To Fight Against Corruption." I presented with my friend Felix Weth from Germany, who joined us at the Nairobi Forum last April.

This was the summit stage and the audience/participants — a total of around…

Dear GYACers,

It seems only a moment ago that we announced the opening of applications for WBI CAP Cycle 2 in our Newsletter 4, where we also followed up on the project implementation of the grant's first winners.

Today, we are beyond pleased to announce that we have the winners of WBI CAP Cycle 2! The grant, as you may…

Heads-up from Utpal for our friends from South Asia:

Definitely one of the highlights of the 2nd Global Youth Anti-Corruption Network Forum was the launch of the first ever World Bank Institute Community Action Project (WBI CAP) grants, the collaborative program of GYAC and the British Council Global Changemakers (GCM). In a nutshell, the WBI is awarding USD3,000 each to five projects that are aimed at fighting corruption; to qualify, you have to be a GYAC member or a Global Changemaker, and your project must leverage the use of ICT in…

Please tweet all your comments, suggestions, criticisms, random interesting stuff, ANYTHING about the GYAC Nairobi Forum and join the anti-corruption discussion by including the hashtag #GYACNairobi to your tweets! Thanks!

Hi fellow GYAC-ers,

It was indeed very nice to hear from some of you yesterday during the Video Conference, where we mapped our way to Nairobi. Unfortunately, technical difficulties got in the way; I, for one, was disconnected after around an hour and was unable to follow the rest of the VC. I believe the same was the case for some others.

In any case, as one of the most common expectations for Nairobi, we need to better organize and centralize the information…

Hi friends! I just came back from a youth peacebuilding training in Hiroshima, Japan and I am happy to…

As some of us already know, starting today, 10 January 2011, we are all set for the 2nd edition of the Fair Play Anti-Corruption Music Competition, where three winning bands will be joining our Global Youth Forum in Nairobi, Kenya in April and one lucky band, to be selected by online popular vote, will win a studio recording worth $2,000! This is truly a spectacular celebration of youth artistry and activism, so why don't we…