Sunday, November 16, 2008

North East District Meeting 2008 - The NExt IN Thing!

15 November 2008
Paya Lebar Methodist Girl School (Secondary)
2pm

For the first time, the North East District Meeting 2008 was held in 3 different places, 2 of them virtually. The video recording of the event was streamed live to 2 Community Centres.

NExt IN thing - NE stands for North East. IN stands for Interactive new media and Neighbourliness. In the goodie bag were, among others, two gifts with significance. One was the door stopper to keep doors open to neighbours. The other was a 2GB thumbdrive to signal the importance of using the new media to reach out to residents.

After a short video on highlights of events for the past year, Jennifer and I went on stage with Mayor to share some of the activities we are carrying out in Eunos Constituency to promote neighbourliness. Eunos Zone '5' RC is piloting a project called 'Neighbours Connect!'

I was honoured to be representing in Eunos YEC to talk about how youth can contribute in terms of IT knowledge to better social bonding. Thanks to Hock Rong for capturing the video of the talk as well!

After our sharing, Mr George Yeo demonstrated how he communicates with his residents via FaceBook.

Following next was Q&A session. Most participants were concerned over economic matters.


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