Youth in 10 countries - Argentina, Brazil, China, Canada, Egypt, Kenya, Mali, Russia, South Africa, and Sweden - will participate in workshops focused on the themes of 'Climate Change' and 'Culture & Identity'. The aim of the workshops is to illustrate to youth how technology tools can be used to create a positive impact in their communities and around the world. Using digital imagery software the workshop participants will communicate their perspectives on two important topics - 'Climate Change' and 'Culture & Identity' - through the creation of digital images. The images created during the workshops will be entered into two digital art competitions run in TakingITGlobal's Global Gallery, and the images, as well as the experiences of the workshop participants, will be leveraged through TakingITGlobal's extensive network to foster cross-cultural dialogue, understanding and youth empowerment amongst youth at large.

TakingITGlobal is looking for submissions for two contest collections: 'Youth Voices Contest - Climate Change' and 'Youth Voices Contest - Culture & Identity'. Create and share your personal artistic creations with the TakingITGlobal community, as well as a global audience! The TakingITGlobal community will vote on the two contest collections. Winning submissions will be among those featured in two special TIG publications, and featured at major international and national events: starting with the World Youth Congress 2008 - to be held in Quebec City this coming August! Winners will also receive prize packs including Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0!

*Please note, you may only submit one piece of artwork to each contest, if multiple submissions are made only the first one will be considered.