Text Box: Web Conference 03rd June'08 Karachi      

 

Text Box: The British Columbia Co-operative Association Canada and the British Columbia Institute for Co-op Studies Canada are jointly hosting this year's Building Co-op Futures Conference. A Regional Forum for the said conference is taking place in Karachi in partnership with Young Social Reformers and Vancouver Regional forum partners are Coast Capital Savings and the SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development   nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat, Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci, lorem dolore sit.

   

   
Text Box:     Sponsor the Event The 6TH Annual Building Co-operative Futures Conference Regional Forum in Karachi offers an excellent opportunity for your organization to support young co-op leaders, the co-operative system and its vast volunteer/leadership network. Your support will help create a truly memorable conference. Sponsorship Opportunities All sponsorships are gratefully appreciated and will be recognized in a variety of ways before and during the 6th Annual International Building Co-operative Futures conference’s Regional Forum in Karachi, including: Registration form and information brochure; Event signage; Website and International online youth network; Verbal recognition; and as an insert in the registration packages. The 6TH Annual Building Co-operative Futures Conference’s Regional Forum in Karachi offers an excellent opportunity for your organizations to support young co-op leaders, the co-operative system and its vast volunteer/leadership network. Your support will help create a truly memorable conference. To find more about the conference  and  Sponsorship Tariff click on download    Find more details about the conference at http://www.learningcentre.coop/en/english Karachi Forum Agenda download For Participation and other conference related details contact: Sarah Alam & Syed Fahad Rizvi  @ infoysr@yahoo.com or 0321-2987425      
 

                                                                      

 
Text Box: International video conference in Karachi on 03rd June 2008 from 8.00 pm - 11.30 pm The online video conference will be a live interactive conference with participants and presenters located in regional forums around the world. The video plenary-type presentations will consist of 2 three-hour sessions with time in between for activities organized at the regional level. Approximately 4 – 6 regional forums will be organized in which participants will be able to view the presenters via video projection, ask questions in real time and present best practices in their region. The co-ordinating regional forum or ‘bridging’ will take place in Vancouver and the regional forum will be hosted in Karachi by Young Social Reformers and will be linked with the Vancouver based forum through web conferencing. Taking on sustainability With daily reports of glacial ice and permafrost melting beyond the most extreme predictions of leading climatologists and graphs showing that Peak Oil was reached in 2006, the shape of our future is on the verge of changes on a scale beyond anything we have seen before. Few can argue that young people face a future entirely different than the world we live in today. People around the world are asking: What kind of a world will this be? What do we want it to be? How will we work together? And most importantly, how can we build a sustainable co-operative future? These questions cannot be taken lightly. While youth involvement in the co-op movement today is significant, we all know the future of the co-operative movement will be in the hands of today’s young people. Yet is the way in which the co-operative movement organizes itself rooted in a petroleum-based economy that itself is on the verge of collapse? Is the success of the co-operative movement reliant on this economy? Previous youth conferences have emphasized sustainability and Fair Trade as the way of the future. This year we want to ask: How can we, as young people, further sustainability in our communities and our co-operatives? How can we organize ourselves and adapt our methodology to align with these goals of sustainability?  What are young people around the world doing to create sustainable communities through co-operation? What do we need in order to further this work?