The IDB Annual Meeting in Panama will begin with a seminar on youth and social innovation for development organized by the IDB Youth Program and the Panamanian government. Experts in the field will highlight how young people can use social innovation to help solve challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean. Making strategic investments in youth to spur innovation and creativity and promote opportunitiesis key to addressing old problems with new solutions.
What: Seminar on Youth and Social Innovation for Development
When: Thursday, March 14, 2:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Where: Sheraton Hotel, Salón Gran Ancón
Who:
- Luis Alberto Moreno, IDB President
- Lucy Molinar, Panama's Minister of Education
- Juan David Aristizabal Ospina, founder of Buena Nota, an online platform on social initiatives for young Colombians that reaches one million people with a message of social change
- Carolina Araoz, founder of Jazz Jaus, the first cultural space in Peru specialized in the dissemination and creation of musical education for social transformation
- Rhona Diaz, founder of Panama’s Sustainable Technologies Company
- Ernesto Arguello, founder of Education Model Towns which works in Nicaragua and Honduras
- Tony Wagner, renown author of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard
- Estanislao Bachrach, expert in neuroscience, creativity, and innovation in business at Argentina’s Torcuato di Tella University
Other panelists representing MTV, Dell Social Innovation Challenge, the City of Knowledge Foundation, and Ashoka will discuss the need for policies and programs in the field of youth social innovation. Alejo Ramírez, secretary general of the Ibero-American Youth Organization (OIJ) will make a presentation on the first Ibero-American Youth Survey that the OIJ is carrying out with the support of the IDB, the Korean Poverty Reduction Fund, and other partners. Renowned Panamanian musician and Grammy Award winner Danilo Pérez will close the seminar with a presentation on culture as a tool to promote social innovation and development.
The event will be filmed by MTV and will carried live on the Internet as well as on the IDB website. Included will be discussions and interactive sessions with over 350 young Panamanian social innovators and entrepreneurs selected by the City of Knowledge Foundation. Contributions of youth to development will be celebrated at a concert with Danilo Pérez, Panamanian jazz musician followed by the rock group Los Rabanes. The event, which will be presented by the government of Panama, will take place at 7 p.m. in the Anayansi Theatre at the Atlapa Convention Center.
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