Application Deadline: January 22, 2021.
The International Youth Digital Leadership Council or “Digital Youth Council” is a 12-member council of young leaders between the ages of 16 and 24 years who are working on issues related to digital platforms and safety, and who are interested in reducing digital harm for children and youth.
Members will work together to advise, inform, and advocate for greater protection from digital harm as the US Agency for International Development (USAID) rolls out its Digital Strategy, thereby strengthening the next generation of digital changemakers and advocates.
Digital Council members are expected to start in March 2021 and serve for one year with the possibility of extension for a second year. The Council is supported by YouthPower2: Learning and Evaluation (YP2LE), a USAID-funded activity focused on building and disseminating the evidence on Positive Youth Development (PYD).
OpinionX: A new market research tool to find valuable opinions
Darragh O’Flaherty and Daniel Kyne. Image: OpinionX
Young entrepreneur Daniel Kyne is leading a new start-up with a tool to give smaller firms access to valuable mass market research.
Daniel Kyne has quite the CV for someone in their early twenties. A founding member of the Digital Youth Council back in 2014, he has held roles with Dublin Tech Summit and Unilever alongside almost five years as a community organiser with the Techstars seed accelerator, bringing him to Startup Weekend events across Europe.
In 2017, aged just 19, he appeared on the Sunday Business Post 30 Under 30 list and, the same year, was selected to join the Dublin Hub of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers, which led to his participation in this year’s Global Shapers Summit.