OCIC Upcoming Forum Invitation – Inclusion & Participation For All
March 25, 2009 by TrentWUSC-IT · Leave a Comment
The Ontario Council for International Cooperation (OCIC) will be hosting a forum under the theme “Inclusion and Participation for All: Building Diverse and Engaged Communities for Social Change” this coming Friday. They have been very kind to invite members of our local WUSC Committee to attend and we would like to show our support.
Ontario Council for International Cooperation
Spring 2009 Peterborough-Northumberland Regional ForumLocation: Peterborough, ON
Date: Friday, March 27th, 2009
Time: 10:30am – 4:30pmDetails of Forum
- The year 2015 was meant to mark the eradication of poverty. While groups and organizations continue to work at engaging the public on local and global justice issues, it is now apparent that the Millennium Development Goals set out by world leaders in 2000 will not be achieved. Increased and sustained public support for international cooperation is essential to creating the change we would like to see in the world.
- This forum will present opportunities to increase and deepen understandings of and approaches to global education and public engagement through a lens of inclusion. It will address challenges to just and equal participation, and will look critically at the role of power dynamics in social justice organizing. Through this lens, the forum will provide opportunities to examine and reassess the roles that groups and organizations can play in addressing social justice issues and creating effective social change.
Details of Speakers
- Uzma Shakir – a community-based researcher, advocate and activist. Her work focuses on issues of race, erosion of civil liberties and critical multiculturalism.
- Amai Kuda – a singer/songwriter, community activist and the mother of a young child. Through parenthood, community work and art, Amai is a vehicle for creation and for change.
- Penny Hartin – the current Chief Executive Officer of the World Blind Union, an organization which works on behalf of blind and visually impaired persons in some 170 countries around the world.
For full details and more information on how to register, visit www.ocic.on.ca or contact Kris at public.engagement@ocic.on.ca or 416-972-6303. Registration forms and subsidy applications are available.
Website registration is now open!
December 6, 2007 by TrentWUSC-IT · Leave a Comment
After moving our website we had to abandon a few things so as to make way for newer technologies. One of them was breaking our user registrations which, although could have been transferred, would have been quite difficult to re-establish with our new system.
Therefore, if you registered with the WUSC at Trent-U website some time before now, you will need to re-register in order to take advantage of the many website features. You are free to register with the same information as you did before. When you click on the “Register” link (see ‘Meta’ section in sidebar) your information will be processed through the newly integrated Forum, but will give you site-wide privileges (with the exception of TrentWUSC Webmail). These privileges include commenting on news updates posted on the front page and taking part in active discussion within the forum!
Please note that after completing the registration form you will be e-mailed your username, password and an activation link. Please read all instructions carefully and if you experience any problems please feel free to contact us.
Website registration and forum launched!
August 7, 2007 by TrentWUSC-IT · Leave a Comment
After many grueling hours of testing the system, we are proud to announce that our website now has a fully functional commenting and community forum system! All you have to do is become registered: click on the register link, enter your username and e-mail and you will receive your password at the e-mail address you provided. Once logged in you can make limited changes to your account which is, by default, that of a “subscriber”. (Please note that your confirmation e-mail may take approximately 5-10 minutes to reach you.)
“Subscriber” privileges enable you to make comments on the updates posted and create/respond to posts in our newly launched forum! There should be no secondary login. The forum is incomplete (but functional) as back-links to the main site will need to be inserted.
Higher privileged users will be given broader access to the site’s core and will be granted upon arrangement.