126th INTER PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY 2012

RECORDED SESSION OF INTER PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY

ONE YOUNG WORLD CALL FOR CANDICATES

Where young leaders
start leading.

  Candidates and delegates

Could you be a delegate? If you were born during or after 1986 and have qualities you think might make you a leader then you should be at One Young World 2012.
Delegates should have following skills, traits and beliefs:

• Teamwork
• Leadership potential and skills
• Concern about global issues
• Ability to generate and articulate impactful ideas
• A commitment to volunteering or other extracurricular activity (evidence required)

You'll meet people like yourself from almost every country in the world. You'll be inspired by some of the world's great leaders and can discuss the things you care about and tell the world what you're doing to lead for a better future. 

Hover over the icons below for more information about  becoming an One Young World Ambassador.

Applicant

Candidate

Delegate

Ambassador

Register as a candidate  
Meet and learn from the One Young World Counsellors. In 2011, Counsellors included Archbipshop Desmond Tutu, Bob Geldof, Donna Karan, Christine Ockrent, Jamie Oliver, Wael Ghonim and Joss Stone.
View the 2011 counsellors

 

Each delegate place covers:

 Return travel to and from the Summit in Pittsburgh
 Hotel accommodation for the duration of the Summit
 Meals and catering
 Ground transportation in Pittsburgh
 The Summit itself

(There are no additional costs and all funds are used solely for the delegates - no profit is made from the Summit)

Africa needs science revolution, conference hears

[TURIN, ITALY] Africa needs more global science partnerships and a new generation of scientists trained to solve the continent's pressing problem of sustainable development, according to Mohamed Hassan, executive director of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS).

The continent needs to set up inter-disciplinary centres of excellence in areas of science and technology critical to its economic growth and sustainable development, Hassan said in a keynote address at the fourth EuroScience Open Forum, in Turin, yesterday (6 July).

These areas include biotechnology and its applications in agriculture and medicine, information and communication technologies, nanoscience, and the use of space technologies for exploring natural resources and monitoring the environment.

Centres of excellence could promote regional and international collaboration. They could also become innovation hubs that offer affordable technologies to help meet the continent's pressing needs, such as safe drinking water and renewable energy sources, Hassan said.

His main concern is the widening scientific 'knowledge gap' between Africa and the rest of the world. Africa contributes only 0.01 per cent of the world's share of international science publications in science and engineering and very few come from Sub-Saharan Africa, he said.

Other causes of concern include the high rates of brain drain because of poor working conditions and research infrastructure, unfulfilled promises of donor aid, and declining investment in science by national governments.

The centres of excellence could also help boost the capacities of African scientists and of science teachers, whose training should include basic science but also innovative teaching methods that promote independent investigation and problem-solving skills.

Africa needs urgently to revitalise its school and university education systems to develop a pool of skilled scientists in partnership with European universities, said Hassan.

"Each country deserves a top-class research university," he said. But to do this they need to connect research and education systems, set high standards for science education, and attract the best students to science.

He also suggested setting up science academies that foster scientific excellence. Africa accounts for just 17 out of 107 science academies worldwide, although seven of them have been set up recently.

Earlier in the week (3 July), Lidia Brito — director for science policy at UNESCO and the former science minister of Mozambique — told a session on advancing science in developing countries that European scientists need to "research for Africa and with Africa, and not just about Africa".

Bebe shot! His Carrier Left hanging

Popular musician Bebe Cool being comforted by his father, Jaberi Bidandi Ssali at Nsambya Hospital yesterday morning. Looking on is the musician’s wife Zuena Kirema  

Top musician Bebe Cool was yesterday in a “serious but stable” condition after a Policeman allegedly shot him during a scuffle still masked in controversy, Sunday Monitor has learnt.

Three other people - two being Bebe’s minders and the other David Oloka, a Special Police Constable – injured in the Friday night shooting, are receiving treatment at Nsambya and Mulago hospitals, respectively.

Dr Martin Nsubuga, the medical superintendent of Nsambya Hospital, said Bebe sustained “gunshot wounds” on both legs, forcing an immediate surgery.

“We explored the wounds and cleaned them to ensure all foreign matter is removed and with continuous dressing, he should improve soon,” he said, suggesting the musician would be able to resume stage performance but gave no timeline.

Bebe Cool’s minders injured in the fracas have been named as Godfrey Kayinza alias Cobra and Allan Musengere, who was hit in the ankle.

Zuena Kirema, the wife of the musician, whom this reporter found seated on the porch of Luigi Girardini Endoscopic Unit, which houses the theatre, said she witnessed the bloody incident at Effendys, a popular city hangout in Centenary Park, but was “too distressed” to speak to the media.

“The whole thing was bad,” she said before going quiet.
Employees of Effendys too declined to speak about the incident which early indications suggest may have its genesis in rivalry in the music industry.

Hours before, the musician had performed, as one of the curtain raising acts, at the equally chaotic concert of American R’nB star Robert Kelly at Lugogo Cricket Ground where Police fired in the air to disperse a crowd that fought to force their way in when American went on stage while so many ticket holders were still queuing outside. Nearly a dozen merrymakers, allegedly caught with counterfeit show tickets, were arrested and are in custody at Jinja Road Police Station.

After the Lugogo performance, Bebe Cool reportedly ran into trouble with Police deployed there after attempting to force his way out through an emergency exit reserved for exclusive use by ambulances, fire tenders and R. Kelly’s entourage.
He then headed to Club Silk before dashing to Effendys around 3a.m.
Meanwhile, at Nsambya Hospital, a handful of Bebe’s relatives and fans, later joined by his father and People’s Progressive Party leader Bidandi Ssali, looked distraught but decided in comments to a battery of anxious journalists that only the musician would speak on the incident when he recuperates.

Immediate action
Detectives at Jinja Road Police station arrested Alfred Acihikan, an SPC who was on night patrol in the area, immediately after the incident and are holding him as a prime suspect.
“Investigations into the incident are underway; we have taken statements from some witnesses and will decide what charges to prefer against the suspect,” said Ms Judith Nabakooba, the Police spokesperson.

The narration of what transpired before the shooting, an account partly pegged to steamy romance, is as confusing as it is varied. One version, corroborated by witnesses; Lambert Ochowun, 23, and Charles Okot, 30, in their statements to Police is that two people were reportedly found having sex in a car at a nearby parking yard.
When Police asked the pair to vacate the place, the man reportedly telephoned Bebe Cool who reportedly dashed to the scene with his crew, one of whom allegedly attempted to disarm SPC Acihikan, now in custody, prompting the shooting.

But SPC Oloka, who sustained a broken left leg in the fracas spoke to Sunday Monitor on his bed at Mulago Hospital, saying that he found his colleague Acihikan quarrelling with an advancing group of the musician shortly before the 3.30 a.m confrontation.
“He (Acihikan) cocked his gun and the situation was dangerous and getting worse,” Mr Oloka said, adding: “I think Bebe Cool must have said something very bad to him and immediately, I heard gunshots. Two bullets hit me and I fell down. Thereafter, my colleague whom I had advised not to shoot came and grabbed my gun and began shooting with it also.”

Self-defence?
Although the suspect says he acted in self-defence, Mr Ssali, who spoke to journalists at Nsambya Hospital after hearing his son’s version of the events leading up to the shooting, blamed the incident on ill-trained SPCs. “He (Bebe Cool) told me that he had an argument inside Effendys bar and when he decided to get away from the scene, he was confronted by Police officers,” Mr Ssali said, quoting his son.

Bebe Cool reportedly said: “When I tried to explain my case, the Police officers would not allow me to do so and before I realised, the Police officers had started shooting.”

The incident, whichever way it is explained, raises questions about the conduct of armed state security operatives, particularly their desire to fire at the slightest provocation, as well as the imposing attitude of star musicians that a government minister questioned moments before the shooting. In a statement issued on Friday, Ethics Minister Nsaba Buturo accused Uganda’s music celebrities of corrupting morals of their fans by allegedly “glamourising drug taking, prostitution, indecent dressing and foul talk”.

“I am appealing to artistes to be responsible and use their influence to speak about unity, development and morality,” the statement circulated to media houses by Uganda Media Centre quoted Dr Buturo as having said.

Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, the Inspector General of Police, who earlier in the day announced plans to draft local musicians and harness their popularity to promote road safety campaign, described the shooting as an “unfortunate incident”.

Teenage Tycoons

Ask a group of 18 to 25 years olds about the idea of becoming an entrepreneur and almost three quarters will say that it is a good career choice.

Jake started his business because he wanted a yacht

So you probably should not be too surprised that youngsters are setting up businesses at an earlier and earlier age.

Sarah Green, Oliver Bridge and Jake Lunn all run their own companies - selling furniture, shoes and personalised napkins, and all of them are making real money.
Just one thing - Sarah is aged 20, Oliver is 17 and Jake is 10.
So how did they begin?
Yacht profits
Two years ago, when he was just eight, Jake Lunn was on holiday with his parents on a friend's yacht, leafing through some sailing magazines when a particularly flashy boat caught his eye.
Jake promptly declared that he was going to buy it.

		Increasing numbers of parents and teenagers feel that entrepreneurship is a suitable career choice Open University: Teenage Tycoons

But his dad Nick told him that if he was to afford the ship of his dreams then he would have to earn some serious cash.
"We all started teasing him and said if you want to earn enough money to afford a super-yacht, you'd better start earning now."
It was there that Jake's business idea for making personalised printed napkins for yachts was born; Nautical-napkins.co.uk was launched.
With some financial help from his dad, Jake started up the business with a second-hand printing press bought for £750.
"We did a deal which meant for that £750, for every time he sold a set of napkins he gave us half and kept half for himself until he'd paid back the £750," explains Nick.
"Well he's done that now and now he gets to keep all of the profit rather than half of the profit."
He might be just 10 years old, but Jake certainly has a head for the figures.
"Each napkin costs 50p and I earn a profit of about 25p," he says.
"I've got a profit of over £2,000. I have about £1,000 in my bank account at the moment."
But he is not afraid to spend his hard earned cash.
He has already bought a drum kit, a guitar and a surf board.
Large shoes
Seventeen-year-old Oliver Bridge turned a personal problem - his large feet - into a business opportunity when he set up a company selling big shoes.

Oliver contacted companies to sell their big shoes online

"I had a look on the internet. Not that much competition from the big stores and I thought OK, I'll go in for it," he says.
He got in touch with shoe manufacturers and arranged to sell their biggest sizes through his own online store Biggerfeet.co.uk.
"I'd got all of the stuff in place and the first couple of weeks of July last year I spent 10 days building my website," he says.
"Then it all just came together and from then on just started selling.
"Within the first half hour of my website being online I had an order. Since then it's skyrocketed. Sales have just gone through the roof."
Self starter
Entrepreneur number three, Sarah Green, is something of a veteran with more than five years experience in the world of business.

Sarah started her first business when she was 12

At the age of 18 she started an online furniture company, 1st-for-furniture.co.uk, which, in only its second year of trading, is expected to hit a turnover of almost £400,000.
Her dad, Andy Green, explains where she got her flair for business from.
At the age of 12 Sarah was already earning a wage doing a regular paper round and it was while on her deliveries that she spotted an opportunity.
"She saw a market that part of her round was old age pensioners whose gardens were looking like wilderness years," says Andy.
"So she made up fliers on the computer, put them through and in the space of two weeks she was cutting eight gardens every other Sunday, which was great for a kid of 12 who was coming home with £40 to £50 in her pocket."
Teaching talent
The talents and aspirations of these three young entrepreneurs are exactly what the government is trying to tap into with a new scheme for enterprise and training.

It's enterprise because they're working in teams and they're working together to develop skills Michele Rhodes Deputy headmistress Hastingsbury School

Chancellor Gordon Brown has committed £180m of taxpayers' money to provide secondary school children with a taste for the world of business by giving them five days of so called Enterprise Training.
Hastingsbury School in Bedfordshire has recently run an Enterprise Day for the entire school.
From the outside you would be forgiven for wondering what producing a version of the musical Grease or doing military exercises on the school field has to do with enterprise, but the deputy headmistress Michele Rhodes explains.
"It's enterprise because they're working in teams and they're working together to develop skills," she says.
"And also it's about building their confidence. Enterprise is partly about a set of attitudes and capabilities, it isn't just about business experience, so what the students are doing today is finding out a little bit more about how they work in a team, what makes them effective."
So can you be taught to be an entrepreneur or are people simply born that way?
Professor Steven Currall of the London Business School thinks the answer to that is straightforward.
"I think it can be taught at a very early age, I think through role models and examples it can be reinforced and I am convinced that many different kinds of people can become successful entrepreneurs."
Mapped out futures
Meanwhile our young entrepreneurs are not showing any signs of slowing down.
Sarah is ploughing some of the profits from her company into a new flat and she is now planning her next venture - a removals business.
While Jake continues churning out his nautical napkins, he is also working on business number two - selling surfing gear to children.
And Oliver? Well he is heading in a different direction altogether.
Once he has finished his A-levels next year he hopes to go onto to study at Oxford University and eventually become a corporate lawyer!

INTERNET MARKETING - AFFILATE PROGRAMMES

 

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is a new twist on an old concept – commission-based sales. At its simplest, it is a partnership between a merchant and a salesperson where the merchant rewards the salesperson, or affiliate, based on some measure of performance – usually a sale, but in some cases for leads or website traffic.
The first mainstream affiliate marketing system on the internet was launched by Amazon.com, offering Amazon "associates" the opportunity to receive a commission for each book they sold for the company. Since then, many thousands of companies have created their own affiliate programs, encouraging online publishers and salespeople to earn commissions through their partnerships.
There are many publishing and sales professionals who are successful affiliate marketers, but they are certainly not the only people participating in the industry. There are also many "amateur" affiliates – people who build a website, or create an online newsletter, or in some cases simply email their friends and recommend a product or service. In many instances, it's no different to recommending a particular brand or store – except that if somebody follows the affiliate's advice, they're rewarded for it.

Why Affiliate Marketing?

Since the internet is one of the media with which to view the world and interact with people without getting up from one’s seat, it has become one of the most important channels with which to sell a merchant’s products and wares.
This is the reason why affiliate marketing thrives as a result of the internet’s popularity. The products and wares which the internet markets get the necessary exposure needed to sell well. This is where the fact that affiliate marketing is a lucrative business comes in. What is intended to be sold is sold because the internet is the best place to sell all these merchandise without the merchant giving too much of an effort to sell them per se.
Affiliate marketing may involve a number of different strategies and techniques, from building entire online storefronts offering the affiliate merchant's products, adding some form of advertisement to an existing website, to something as simple as making recommendations in an email and including a special affiliate link that ensures that the merchant credits them for the sale.
The growth of affiliate marketing is constantly increasing, as new merchants discover the value of increasing the size of their sales force by creating partnerships with online publishers. This is especially true of merchants whose products or services may appeal to a particular niche market. How better to become established within that niche than by working with companies and individuals who already know the market because they're part of it?

Making Money With Affiliate Programs

Most of us dream about the kind of life where we make our own hours and have time for the important things in life, don’t we? How about earning an income that we can really be proud of based on our performance? Let’s face it, for most of us, work is something that takes away from our days, not add to them.
Perhaps that’s why so many people are turning towards affiliate marketing for extra income. Affiliate marketing was responsible for billions of dollars worth of revenue over the past year, and much of that centered on the all-important holiday shopping season. When you are ready make money with affiliate programs and become a successful affiliate marketer there are a few things you need to keep in mind.

This Is The Second Article

Name of writer goes here

XSitePro allows you to quickly and easily create a well-structured site with good interlinking between pages that can help you to optimize your search engine rankings.
If you create your articles as sub-pages to a main page (as we have done in this example site structure) the parent page can have an index list of all the sub-pages, complete with page descriptions - these descriptions automatically picked up from the information you have enetered in the Page Settings tab.
Adding a list of sub-pages to a 'main page' is very straightforward: Simply make pages into 'sub-pages' by selecting them one-by-one in the list of pages, left of your screen, then by clicking the right-facing arrow to indent the selected page in the list, below your chosen 'main page'. Once you have set up your sub-pages in the list, simply go to the design tab for your chosen 'main page' (below which you indented your sub-pages), right click in the design window, and select Insert Links to All Sub-Pages.
It's as easy as that!
XSitePro allows you to have an infinite number of pages and sub-pages so feel free to add as many articles as you like. Remember, whenever you add a new sub-page to your list (in this example we're adding articles) they will automatically get added to the index-list of pages that you inserted in your 'main page' as described above.

This Is The First Article

Name of writer goes here

XSitePro allows you to quickly and easily create a well-structured site with good interlinking between pages that can help you to optimize your search engine rankings.
If you create your articles as sub-pages to a main page (as we have done in this example site structure) the parent page can have an index list of all the sub-pages, complete with page descriptions - these descriptions automatically picked up from the information you have enetered in the Page Settings tab.
Adding a list of sub-pages to a 'main page' is very straightforward: Simply make pages into 'sub-pages' by selecting them one-by-one in the list of pages, left of your screen, then by clicking the right-facing arrow to indent the selected page in the list, below your chosen 'main page'. Once you have set up your sub-pages in the list, simply go to the design tab for your chosen 'main page' (below which you indented your sub-pages), right click in the design window, and select Insert Links to All Sub-Pages.
It's as easy as that!
XSitePro allows you to have an infinite number of pages and sub-pages so feel free to add as many articles as you like. Remember, whenever you add a new sub-page to your list (in this example we're adding articles) they will automatically get added to the index-list of pages that you inserted in your 'main page' as described above.

A Great Way To Build A Content Site

A great source of quality content, fast

You can build tightly focused content by including appropriate articles on your site.
There are several options available for acquiring article content.

• You can write the articles yourself - time consuming, but it does mean that you will have unique content that will not be found anywhere else on the Internet.
    
• You can find appropriate articles on the many article directory sites on the Internet. This can be a great way to find niche articles, but the downside is that the content you find is likely to also feature on many other sites on the web. This can result in pages being 'penalized' by search engines for being 'duplicate content'. Also, for copyright reasons, it is not usually possible to edit the articles you find in article directories and in most cases you will be required to include a resource box that gives credit to the author of the article and usually a link to one of their sites.
    
• A great alternative to article directories are 'article membership sites'. Although this is not a free resource, like those above, it does offer several big advantages. Firstly, it means that the number of people who have access to the articles is restricted so you can be quite sure that the article won't be appearing on thousands of sites all over the Internet (so your pages are less likely to be penalized by search engines for duplicate content).
  
  Secondly, most membership sites that offer articles give you the rights to edit the articles as much as you like. This means that you can take the basic article and change it to suit your own needs. Not only does this mean the content becomes your own unique content it also means that you can optimize the article for your chosen keywords. Lastly, having access to articles you can customize for your own use will help to get you over that initial writer's block. To write an article from scratch can take anything from 30 minutes to a few hours, but if you are customizing an existing article it will take a fraction of the time, often as little as five minutes.
    
• Another option for generating article content is to pay someone to write it for you. You might be thinking "that's too expensive, surely..." but you'd be amazed at how easy it is to find really cost-effective writers online who will often write copy for incredibly low fees. Again, an advantage of this type of content is that it takes you no time to write, can be keyword rich, and is truly unique to your site. 

Sub-page Lists:
A really neat little feature within XSitePro is that you can quickly generate lists of sub-pages (below we've included a list of our article pages below this 'articles index page'). This not only looks very professional, but also makes navigating your article content easier for visitors.
It's especially useful if you have a lot of articles (or other sub-page content) which you wish to present, but don't wish to clutter the main navigation menus with. And the other great reason for using this is that whenever you add another sub page (in this case, another article beneath this article index page) it will automatically be added to the page list below. The descriptions even get added automatically for you!www.africa256.wordpress.com