SYINC Connect 08 Youth Conference

Want to meet like-minded people who are passionate about making a difference?

Want to learn from respected and experienced community leaders and social entrepreneurs?

Youths in Singapore are engaging more with civil society on both a local and global level – be it through formal programmes such as CIP in schools, or through the initiative of dynamic young individuals.

Syinc is a Singapore youth group that drives young people to act as agents of social change. We do this by:

1. Connecting people who share a common desire to create positive social change; and

2. Equipping them with the resources, tools and opportunities to make it happen.

SYINConnect is a one-day youth conference that connects participants to urgent social issues, and what people are doing about them in Singapore. Participants will get the opportunity to meet the community leaders making change in our society today, and build the skills, networks and confidence to be effective agents of change.

Information about the event:

SYINC Connect 08

Republic Polytechnic

Saturday, 26 July, 2008

Applications open on 28 June.

For more information, visit http://www.syinc.org/syinconnect

If you have any queries, do not hesitate to contact us at syinconnect@syinc.org.

Yours Sincerely,
The SYINC Team
http://www.syinc.org

If you’re unable to see the attached document, please visit http://www.syinc.org/syinconnect/poster.pdf

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Your Voice on TOC

This website is about your voice, not ours. It would be ironic to talk about human rights and democracy without highlighting your involvement in shaping the discussion.

This week, we will be publishing two full pieces consisting exclusively of a collation of comments YOU have made on TOC’s human rights contributions. In the course of the commentary on these pieces, content has developed that warrants greater exposure and discussion.

This is the primary criteria for selecting the comments that appear in our new innovation, Your Voice: the ability to provoke deeper thought. Read more

Human Rights Focus Week extended

Hi everyone,

Just a short note to let everyone know that we are extending our Human Rights focus by another week. This is a request which some of you have made to us and the editors have unanimously agreed!

Our intended “Wages & Inflation” week will now be postponed to the week after. Our apologies to those who were looking forward to that.

In the new week, we will be highlighting some of the more interesting and insightful comments posted by you guys and gals here on TOC, besides more articles on human rights. So, look out for that.

If you wish to contribute an article on human rights (or on Wages & Inflation) to be published here, please do email us at: theonlinecitizen@gmail.com.

Remember: TOC is all about you and your views. So, keep your comments coming..

Thanks, everyone… for the spirited discussions and debates.

Regards,

Andrew Loh

Deputy Editor

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Seminar on Internet Regulatory Reform

Organised by the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, NTU

“The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open” – Gunter Grass

Are Singaporeans satisfied with the state of Internet regulation as existing?

If not, what changes do we wish to see and how can a bottom-up desire for reform translate into policy review?

Can Singapore afford the political and social costs of free speech? Is there a contradiction between wanting freedom for political speech and controls over social speech? Is technology really in the driver’s seat? Are governments powerless in the face of a global Internet? Read more

TOC Human Rights Focus Week

The past few weeks have seen the sensational public demolition of one of Singapore’s most prominent human rights’ activists, Dr Chee Soon Juan. Singaporeans have also witnessed the arrest of an idiosyncratic ex-Worker’s Party member, Mr Gopalan Nair.

Lost amidst the storm of dust raised by the media’s caricatures of these colourful characters is the cause they are fighting for. There is an implicit linking of the term “human rights” with the drama of the players on the field of battle: if their standard bearers fall, so falls the flag of human rights, guilty by association. Read more

Talk and forum on the ASEAN human rights mechanism

Maruah Singapore and the Asia-Europe Foundation are pleased to jointly present a lecture on:

An ASEAN Human Rights body: A Milestone in the 60 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Vitit Muntarbhorn
Co-Chair of the Civil Society Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism

Date and time:
Wed, 11 June 2008, 4:00 to 5:30 pm

Venue:
Asia-Europe Foundation 31 Heng Mui Keng Terrace (Off Pasir Panjang Road). Free admission.

You are cordially invited to a reception after the lecture Read more

YouthQuake - Transportation road map by youths

Greetings!

My name is Bernard Chen, Organising Secretary of the Workers’ Party Youth Wing.

On behalf of the Workers’ Party Youth Wing, I would like to invite you to “YouthQuake – The Battle Cry of Singaporean Youths”. Read more

Sayoni Queer Women Survey

From the Sayoni website:

This survey is intended to collect essential information about queer, lesbian, bisexual and transgender women living in Singapore. Women of all ages, races and nationalities are welcome to take this survey, as long as your permanent residence is Singapore.

We encourage you to take this survey even if you have taken it in previous years. The collective results of this survey will be used for research purposes only, and will in no way be traced back to the individual user. We thank you for the great service you are doing for the community, in spending time to do this.

It should take approximately five minutes to do this survey.

This survey is brought to you by Sayoni.

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Help make a girl’s dream come true

You may, or may not, have heard about the Pick-Me-Up Book , which was first launched in January this year. The book is a collection of true stories of how people managed to overcome their dire circumstances and strife to turn their dreams into reality despite facing long odds. Aptly, the Make-A-Wish Foundation is the beneficiary to this good cause.

The highlight of this edition is the story by Charmaine Tan, a 13-year-old wish-child from Make-A-Wish Foundation who is suffering from end-stage kidney failure, on top of a congenital eye disease which has led to her being visually-impaired today. Her wish is to become a published author. (Read more about Charmaine here.) Read more

Public Forum - 24 May, Saturday

“Understanding the implications of inflation on your

investments and the labour market”

To raise the competitiveness of our future workforce through a holistic discussion of various issues of the labour market, including investment strategies and inflation Read more

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