Knowledge Tool for Youth Networking & Development

It is not so long ago that CIYDA launched the concept of a ‘Knowledge Center’. The main idea was to build on a library and links on helpful knowledge material by the youths and for the youths of Zimbabwe. This would have been a reference point not only for business start-up, but for, mentorship, volunteering and for social & cultural integration issues. CIYDA created a platform that helped you catch your own imagination.

CIYDA went even further when we suggested in partnership with the Ministry of Youth and Zimbabwe Youth Council, the now postponed Zimbabwe Youth Development Festival. This would have been an opportunity to bring those with the tools & resources, public sector and private sector alike, together with the youths. The CIYDA director of volunteering, Munyaradzi Takawira, even went further into mooting the consolidating of these ideas and what we already have in our platform into creating a more diverse knowledge center.

In line with its information hub objectives, CIYDA would go on to create a knowledge and expertise hub to allow youths amongst themselves to provide much needed valuable services in collaboration with experts in different fields. CIYDA will go a long way into acting as an incubator for this project hence our effort into making this one of our central projects for 2010.

Having in the last week or so attended a workshop by the former head of Knowledge Management at Swiss Re, I felt this was a great potential. Mr Martin Eppler argued simply the need to create not only the cyber knowledge and information network but also that feel and touch and interaction physically. He was saying what we had already been thinking and how it had been successfully been implemented by an organization of Swiss Re’s calibre.

With the support of our prospective partners both in public and private sector, we are looking to turn this into a viable project for the coming year.

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What is CIYDA
Contemporary Indigenous Youth Development Africa (CIYDA) is a non-profit organisation founded in 2008 and is based in Harare, Zimbabwe. CIYDA is working to develop and empower the youths of Zimbabwe for the benefits of the nation and Africa as a continent through the use of new media, information technology and networking amongst other things. Through these drivers, CIYDA aims to facilitate an information hub and service provision in the areas of Business Start-up, Social & Cultural Integration, Socio-economic Mentoring and Volunteering. Through current globalisation trends and dispersion of Zimbabwean youths, CIYDA currently has a network connection of approximately 500 Zimbabwean youths in many countries amongst them, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia and Canada.