240131 news 1380100658 1475896496 GT's five student delegation has just returned from the ITU Global Youth Summit in Costa Rica. They were a formidable force throughout the meeting's hackathon and they have brought home the gold and sliver: their app came in First in the education category and Second overall. Their project tackled Millennium Development Goal #2, creating an integrated web/mobile phone system to help inform policy makers about primary education student enrollment levels.

The summit brought industry, government, and international organization leaders together to interact with youth from around the world as peers and co-creators of the future of ICT. The GT team attended, and impacted, many other components of the Summit and represented Georgia Tech well: to the President of Costa Rica, First Lady of Nigeria, Secretary General of the ITU, and other VIPs of note, and in media interviews with the likes of CNN.

The Georgia Tech team was made up of Deana Brown (PhD student, IC), Nekabari Goka (MS student, INTA), Amanda Meng (PhD student, INTA), Alex Stelea (Sophomore, CoC), and Stephanie Su (Sophomore, CoC). Congratulations to these amazing Georgia Tech students!

]]> 2013-09-25T00:00:00-04:00 The BYND2015 Global Youth Summit is a platform for young people to lend their voice and influence decisions at the United Nations on the Future We Want.

Young people from around the world have gathered in San José, Costa Rica to shape the sustainable development agenda in the post-2015 era. Along with some 700 participants meeting in San José, over 3000 young people around the world are logging in virtually to contribute their ideas from 43 hubs or workshops in 25 different countries using a unique crowd-sourcing platform and other social media channels.

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