What do you think of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s planned Partnership Platform Portal?
Posted by ZoeWare - 19/07/09 at 01:07 pmThe Commonwealth Secretariat is planning a new youth-focused website – the Partnership Platform Portal (CP3) – as a tool to increase collaboration and build partnerships across the Commonwealth. What do you think about it?
Young people are vital to the Commonwealth since they represent the leaders and influential thinkers of tomorrow. The Commonwealth Secretariat hopes that the Portal will provide the following benefits:
- Access to jobs via a Virtual Market place, not only in the Commonwealth Secretariat, but across the Commonwealth;
- Ability to connect with youths across the Commonwealth via Social Networking facilities;
- Gain access to programmes offered by Commonwealth Secretariat e.g. scholarships, capacity building workshops;
- Tap into a wealth of knowledge, skills and other assets in a digital repository;
- Opportunity to participate in the good work being conducted by the Commonwealth;
- Providing an international fora for youths to express their opinions and influence policies; and
- Sharing success stories on youth programmes, activities, and initiatives across the Commonwealth.
Do you think this is a good idea? What would you like to see in the Portal? What features should it have that will make it most useful to you?
As well as leaving comments below, you can also email?Omer Awan at o.awan@commonwealth.int with your suggestions.
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August 11th, 2009 at 6:14 am
No doubt, this is a brilliant idea, especially in this information age, when technology is shaping our lives and connecting us with opportunities like never before. This portal will certainly create another opening for youth from all over the commonweath to connect with themselves and explore possibility of collaboration and empowerment as contributing members of the commonwealth community.
August 11th, 2009 at 9:53 am
I agree with LekanOshunkoya above but will ask strongly that the CommonWealth Scretariat research existing social platforms doing similar things with a view to adopting best practises and avoid pitfalls.
Thanks.
August 12th, 2009 at 7:18 am
Bearing in mind that the Commonwealth is an international organization. You can be sure that the secretariat will engage the best hands in the implementation of the proposed portal. The resources and expertise is available.
September 10th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Sounds strange to me. I have had a bit of a read up on this, and it seems to be just like any other website:
- Gain access to programmes offered by Commonwealth Secretariat e.g. scholarships, capacity building workshops;
- Opportunity to participate in the good work being conducted by the Commonwealth;
- Providing an international fora for youths to express their opinions and influence policies; and
- Sharing success stories on youth programmes, activities, and initiatives across the Commonwealth.
Shouldn?t the Commonwealth website have this already?
http://www.thecommonwealth.org/news/34580/34581/190806/300409sgchatham_house.htm
“The so-called ?Partnership Platform? will be used by anyone from a farmer looking for a partner in another Commonwealth country to help extend his or her business, to an entrepreneur wishing to explore different renewable energy options.”
Haven?t they heard of google?
I struggle to imagine an entrepreneur interested in renewable energy options thinking “Ah Yes! The Commonwealth P3″.
Perhaps someone could explain a bit more of the details, at the moment it seems like waffle.
September 27th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Given that much of the commonwealth is in the so called third world – with low internet usage or slow bandwidth… i would be interested to know how the organisation plans to marry the need for a 2.0, radical, interesting, well-presented website to get people in the west to go on it… with the practical problems facing people with slow bandwidth in africa.
if you produce a slow, clunky, ugly, limited, 1.0 website nobody will go on it in canada or the uk. if you produce something high-tech with loads of cool graphics… practically its impossible for it to work well in somewhere with a low connection speed.
perhaps someone from the organisation could tell me how this is going to work?
October 27th, 2009 at 9:03 am
I hold a very different views from the rest, I think what is happening is that Commonwelath is catching up to the 21st century, what it intends to do has been done by myC4.COM, facebook and so many other social networks that have been trying to help the third world to share and acquire equitable opportunities in the worll trade. What needs to be focussed on is how different this is going to be. I find the Commonwealth as a very big sleeping giant that has not yet or rather is not bothered on when its going to wake up. When we discuss the issues of democratic reforms in Africa, the East Africa Intergration Process, the trade agreememnts, issues of the Nile treaty and Climate change, for me, and for most Kenyans, I believe, would want to see more of the Commonwealth participation and especially using the young people to foster this changes. Right now, this very big giant is a fence sitter that needs to find its niche in the African social, economic and political context.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:06 am
I believe we can only achieve that which we hope to achieve by doing our best. In this case we need to start doing something by putting things in place.
I believe in the COMMONWEALTH and I believe we can do this but not until we start putting things together, which involves writing and involving everyone responsible