MONICA ZEGA DE KRÜTLI She is an Argentinean retired teacher, (53 years old), translator and editor of magazines. From 1994 to 1998 she worked as facilitator/moderator with I*EARN (International Education and Resource Network) Argentina Centre and worked on-line with children, teens and teachers from Argentina and around the world. She loved helping teachers and students to get acquainted with Information and Communications Technologies, introducing them to Internet and helping them to contribute meaningfully to online projects and to set their own projects and web pages.

She was member of I*EARN International Secretariat during 1997 and is currently collaborating with some I*EARN projects and translating into Spanish I*EARN's “Newsflashes” and “InterAction”, I*EARN's biannual magazine. During 1998 she was moderator/facilitator for M. I. T's Junior Summit '98, a forum where a thousand children and teens from all over the world debated on line on "The importance of New Technologies in Addressing Social Issues". There she guided and helped children from more than 50 countries from Latin America, Caribbean, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. She was also elected to attend the Summit held in M. I. T. Cambridge, Mass., US as moderator of a new "supertopic" called "Positive Roles for Children". Recently she's been elected to be a Digital Ambassador, for the "Global Survey" that will be conducted next November  by Against All Odds Productions US. She loves working with youth, both on line and in person, and is always engaged in some or other social or community work. She is also fluent both in English and Spanish and can read Portuguese, Italian and French. In her "other life" she is the editor of a magazine and she lives with her husband and an Australian shepherd (it's a dog!) in a little cabin in the Argentinean Sierras. What she loves most (when she is not sitting at her PC!) is taking care of her garden.  And she is really honoured and delighted to be a part of the Global Junior Challenge!

 

“Youth in the Digital Age” I thought  that the name “Global Junior Challenge” was meant as a challenge for global youth. But, as I see the contributions young people make using this new technologies, I’m more and more convinced that the real challenge is for us, adults. This is the first time in the history of humankind that we, grown-ups, learn from children. Actually, they are who teach us skills and short cuts to deal with this brave new technological world. This is the first challenge for us, that always had been the Teachers, with a capital T. But most important, we learn from them lessons on multicultural integration, compassion and ideals for a better world. What they dream they actually put to action through their projects. They teach us that now our world is truly “global”. That color, nationality, religion, gender and ethnicity don’t matter any more. That all that matters is the will and the heart to share with others what they have and what they know. And this is the real challenge and the greater contribution youth makes in the digital age!

 

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