Digital music skills relate directly to multimedia use of audio in multiple formats, including Internet streaming audio and video. Workshop Presentation Tools and Resources Presentation software, such as Microsoft's PowerPoint, allows for attractive display of multimedia pages and speaking points. This is a tool designed to reduce the user's dependency on an Internet connection. Background Today's communities, and their diverse cultures, are faced with the urgent challenge to adopt Internet use for cultural and economic survival. Youth are the key change agents and technology leaders in all cultures and communities.
Youth literally embody the future of their cultures and communities.
Digital divide populations need a process by which they assess and disseminate the best resources, training materials, tools, and practices, themselves. It is now possible for those populations at the lowest levels of Internet literacy to leapfrog ahead by receiving, on an ongoing basis, the best, free online tools, self-directed learning resources, and practices, for collaboration, teaching others, storytelling, cultural expression, and Ecommerce. Examples of how local individuals are helping each other, and supporting their families, communities, and cultures, will be celebrated and made accessible via Web Tours which youth will maintain as 'living' documentation of Internet applications for self-empowerment and mutual support. Youth from multiple cultures and communities will share the goal of simultaneously creating global resources for youth in the 15,000 cultures worldwide which will be receiving Internet access within the next 10-20 years in a world where today less than half the world's population has made a first phone call. Youth would partner with local elders to create multimedia presentations including original digital photos and web pages representing local needs, and web-based applications aimed at meeting those needs.