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Children music gather parents of Malmo on one goal

Can you turn your world into a “Spirtus Mundi”?

Everyone likes music .. that is a well known fact, it is used now as an essential tool to promote dialogue between civilization .. that is the news .. spirtus mundi has the story.

In Malmo, Sweden's third biggest city and just miles away from Copenhagen, Henrik Milius established his NGO to promote mutual understanding between Sweden and Arab and African countries.

Spirtus Mundi organized a group of programs for Swedish and foreign children like Saudi girls and sons and daughters of Malmo residents who belongs to Islamic and Middle Eastern origins.

Members of our group and all YLVP participants spent a very nice couple of days in Spirtus Mundi, we recorded a song that we composed and wrote its lyrics then we designed the album cover, most of us did these activities for the first time in our life but may be not for the last time :)

One of the most interesting meetings we had was with Behrang Miri, a Swedish young leader from Iranian origins.

Miri is a hip hop artist who uses his music to teach children to express themselves and to integrate with their home societies in a city like Malmo that have a large population of Swedes with foreign origins.

The best thing about Miri is that he is only 24 years old and he has a great impact, something that led him to be hired by some schools in Malmo to teach kids how to learn by dancing and composing.

Just 2 hours before we left Malmo we celebrated 2 of our group members birthdays, Mira and Emad , alongside them was Wael and Maged who all had their birthdays in November.

Sudsvenskan is one of the most important newspapers in Sweden that covers the area of south the country specially Malmo and Lund cities.

The newspaper has 3 different offices including one in Lund where they manage their operation to get as much local coverage as they can showing a good example of how knowing interests of your target audience is the key factor to win their loyality.

2 YLVP participants, Maged Hassan and Nasry Esmat with guidence from Hanna Ryden who works there had the chance to visit the newspaper and to talk to the head of the web department to know how the southern newspaper is managing the internet boom and rise of social media.

The YLVP participants attended 2 Fikas which is a very Swedish term to describe meeting between colleagues in the same work place to discuss their work while drinking coffee.

They had another interesting meeting with the editor of foreign affairs exchanging contacts to build a powerful network.

Meet our Hyperisland Panel

Vanilla Peace Agents held a very constructive meeting with Hyperisland students to discuss their five ideas.
Sanna, Harold and Magy, the students panel managed in advising our group to make final choice on the idea of the project.


Here is some tips we got from the panel :

- try to make a very simple interface
- websites with large target audiences could have a messy homepage
- 2 keys to succeed : user generated content and an awarding system to benefit the user
- Making use of cell phones in your website makes it easier for users to log in





At the end we discussed the five ideas that we had came up with :

Arab Calls :
An online network connecting Arab activists using advanced web 2.0 tools to promote their ideas among Arab countries and help them make positive change.

Consumer voice :
An online tool to rate and review products and services presented to people in the Arab world including where they get these services and products to help citizens defeat corruption and monopoly , giving the chance to consumer unions to work and spread awareness among users.

Media awareness :
An online media watch where users can review and comment on news credibility

Tourism translator :
An online translator helping travelers around the world to explore their





the final secision is :

ARAB CALLS

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Week of creativity

“A creative person is like a professional footballer .. he has the talent but he should practice it everyday in order to keep it working”

This quote was one of the most tips said by Fredrick Haren the creator of http://www.interesting.org/ and author of “the ideas book”.

It was really interesting to play thinking out of the box game .. theo show was really funny the guy know how to his job in a lovely way.

“Royalty to a brand is an illusion .. people are not loyal to the partners they sleep with everyday so how could they be loyal for a product"!

Another interesting quote by Saher Sidhom the advertisement creative who had a controversial discussion with YLVP members after his lecture

Sidhom believes that attractive brands and trends are the ones that fulfill people’s needs not the ones that are heavily marketed in the media.

"Mobile phones will be the most preferable web browser"

Another important idea discussed by Theo the designer from "Ericsson" Talked with us about how mobile phones become a more preferable way to browse the web and how we can implement this into our projects.

"Your way to Hyperisland" for dummies

This map shows you our way from Hotel Hellsten (B) to Hyperisland (A)


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