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TechCul Ideathon winners tackle challenges in culture and creative sector
20 jan 2021
The Roots Routes team from Thailand was the crowd favorite, garnering prizes from the British Council, International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (ICHCAP) and Tencent, as well as startup support from Thailand’s Digital Economy Promotion Agency and the National Innovation Agency. The team proposed a travel platform that connects people to indigenous culture and local communities in a sensitive and sustainable manner.
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UNESCO TechCul Initiative 2020 Winners Announced
13 jan 2021
UNESCO Bangkok Office has announced the thirteen winners of the TechCul Initiative 2020, an innovative idea challenge co-hosted with FossAsia and sponsored by Tencent, Huawei, ICHCAP, etc. on 9 January, 2021.
TechCul Initiative 2020 was launched to bring together tech and culture leaders with startups and entrepreneurs to develop innovative digital solutions and win-win business models to address challenges faced by the culture and creative sector.
At the end of the event, eighteen prizes were awarded to thirteen teams from eleven countries. ICHCAP named four teams from Thailand, Hong Kong SAR in China, Vietnam, and Singapore as ichLinks Prize winners and awarded $2,000 to each of them.
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2020 UNESCO TechCul Initiative - Finalist Pitch Teams are Announced
24 dec2020
UNESCO Bangkok launched the TechCul Initiative to develop digital solutions and business models to address the existing challenges faced by the culture and creative sector across the Asia-Pacific region.
A total of 443 participants from 34 countries registered for the UNESCO Online Ideathon event which was held on 6 December 2020. After reviewing the submissions of ideas, the UNESCO selection team shortlisted 25 teams to be invited to enter the dedicated pitch event taking place on 9 Jan 2021.
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Youth Co:Lab Thailand report 2017-2018
18 sep 2019
Along with the vision to “Foster Thailand’s collaborative social innovation ecosystem to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals,” Thailand Social Innovation Platform under UNDP Thailand is organizing an initiative - Youth Co: Lab Thailand, a platform to empower youth in Thailand to create social impact and enhance livelihood through social innovation and social entrepreneurship, thus contributing to resolving existing social, economic and environmental challenges in Thai society.
This report outlines the structure, elements and tools of activities, and examines the outputs, as well as shares lesson learned from Youth Co:Lab Thailand in 2017-2018. It also catalogues young talents’ innovative solutions that were generated and accelerated during the program.
The Roots Routes also featured in Youth Co:Lab Thailand 2018 with Sustainable Tourism award find out more on the projects details and objective.
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เปิด 3 แอปไอเดียเจ๋งจาก startup เยาวชนไทยเพื่อแก้ปัญหาสังคม
20 March 2019
“the Root Routes”ท่องเที่ยวสร้างรายได้ให้ชุมชน
ไอเดียนวัตกรรมเชื่อมต่อระหว่างนักท่องเที่ยว กับชุมชนแหล่งท่องเที่ยวท้องถิ่น ในรูปแบบแอปพลิเคชัน ในชื่อ “the Root Routes” ที่ได้รับแรงบันดาลใจเพื่อการอนุรักษ์อัตลักษณ์ของชุมชน ส่งเสริมการท่องเที่ยวเชิงวัฒนธรรม อันนำไปสู่การส่งเสริมรายได้ และส่งเสริมธุรกิจสร้างสรรค์ให้กับชาวบ้านในชุมชนอย่างยั่งยืน โดยโมเดลธุรกิจเพื่อสังคมดังกล่าว มีแนวคิดนำร่องในชุมชนริมน้ำของกรุงเทพ เพื่อให้เป็น พิพิธภัณฑ์ที่มีชีวิตกลางแจ้ง หรือ Living heritage and open-air museum ซึ่งภายในแอปพลิเคชั่นมาพร้อมฟังก์ชันนำเสนอข้อมูลเชิงลึกอย่างครอบคลุมของพื้นที่ที่ต้องการไป อาทิ การเดินทาง ที่พัก เอกลักษณ์ของชุมชน ไปจนถึงกิจกรรม วัฒนธรรม ประเพณีของชุมชนหรือท้องถิ่นนั้นๆ เพื่ออำนวยความสะดวกในการท่องเที่ยวแก่นักท่องเที่ยว และเผยแพร่คุณค่าด้าน นอกจากนี้ ยังมีฟังก์ชันการจองตารางเข้าร่วมกิจกรรมท้องถิ่น เพื่อให้นักท่องเที่ยวร่วมสัมผัสประสบการณ์การเที่ยวเชิงวัฒนธรรมอย่างเต็มรูปแบบ
The youth participants from eighty-six countries along the maritime and terrestrial Silk Road ⓒ Phan Van Quyen
UNESCO Youth Forum on Creativity and Heritage along the Silk Road
30 april 2019 by royce lyssah malabonga
The Third International Youth Forum on Creativity and Heritage along the Silk Road (IYF3) with the theme “Youth Creativity and Innovation in the Age of Media Arts” was held in Changsha and Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, from 31 March to 5 April. More than 125 young people from 86 countries along the maritime and terrestrial Silk Road participated in the week-long capacity-building forum.
The IYF3 sought to provide an avenue for young people to engage in intercultural dialogue, share their passions and interest, and explore the potential of innovation and creativity in the promotion, safeguarding, and preservation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage towards sustainable and inclusive development. The participants also advocated for the inclusion of young people in cultural and creative industries through various platforms of media arts. There were series of youth panel discussions and workshops on the themes “Innovation of Cultural Heritage” and “Art for Social Integration.”
2012 "Ligligan Parul" Giant Lantern Festival CCBYSA3.0 Ramon FVelasquez / WikiMedia
The Giant Lantern Festival of the Philippines
6 dec 2018 by royce lyssah malabonga
Owing to its Catholic traditions, the Philippines is perhaps one of the few countries in the world that celebrates Christmas the earliest and the longest. The country marks the Christmas holidays starting from 1 September. Shopping malls and shops will start displaying Christmas decorations; families will start to put up Christmas trees in their houses; and Christmas songs will be heard almost everywhere.
Peñafrancia, the 300-year-old Fluvial Procession Festival in the Philippines
4 oct 2018 by royce lyssah malabonga
September marks the celebration of one of the most famous and oldest festivals in the Philippines, the Peñafrancia where thousands of people flock to Naga City and show their fervent devotion to Our Lady of Peñafrancia, the patroness of Naga City in the Bicol Region. For more than three hundred years, religious devotees and pilgrims have attended the religious rites for the Peñafrancia Festival
Whang-od Oggay © Royce Lyssah Malabonga
Pambabatok: A Tattooing Technique of the Butbut Tribe in the Philippines
16 Aug 2018 by royce lyssah malabonga
Whang-od Oggay, a 102-year-old woman from a mountain tribe in the Philippines, is a living instrument in the continuity of pambabatok, an endangered ancient tattooing technique that chiefly constitutes hand-tapping to create figures on the skin. Believed to be the oldest tattoo artist and the last linkage of her tribe to pambabatok, Whang-od became famous in the internationally when she was featured by Dr. Lars Krutak, an American anthropologist who was the host of Discovery Channel’s Tattoo Hunter in 2009. Pambabatok is argued to be at least a thousand year old intangible cultural heritage (ICH) element.
Chasing the last speakers of a dying tongue
23 jan 2015 by royce lyssah malabonga
MANILA, Philippines - I had two flights booked on the same day. One goes to Marrakech, another to Amsterdam. The flight to Morocco had already been booked a few weeks before, even my mind is set that I am to meet Berber people and immerse in the immensity of the Sahara desert.
Days before the Morocco flight, I received an email stating I had been accepted in an international youth conference in The Hague, Netherlands. If only my body can be in Europe and Africa at the same time. But I had to flip the coin.
I found myself landing at Amsterdam Schiphol and taking a connecting train to Den Haag (The Hague). Joining almost a hundred of youth from different parts of the world, we were tasked to deliberate and formulate goals and premises to be passed in the United Nations Headquarters in 2015.