UNICEF: Web 2.0 to dual Video Views

Stephen Cassidy of UNICEF had previously posted 2-3 minute videos on the UNICEF home page but required to spread them virally.

Cassidy with his panel installed videos on YouTube and videos of Google Yahoo, AOL blinkx, and Truveo. Vital to the video success was with suitable titles and tags.

For UNICEF's MySpace page, the society just jumped in with no much of a plan. The plan was to study and then utilize those facts later to promote the page. 

A significant part of the MySpace success is the regular updating done by UNICEF. They post to the blog regularly and upload new videos and podcasts each week. 

Cassidy points out that as the demographic of MySpace is young, his team worked very hard at not sounding like a stuffy, institutional, old-fashioned organization preaching top down.

Workshop Stresses On Communication Skills:UNICEF

United Nations Children's Fund is organizing a two-day training workshop in the Sultanate for developing communication strategy for sustainable practices and social development.

The participants were introduced to UNICEF’s communication for Development (C4D) concepts, theories and ethics and steps in increasing a communication policy for sustainable practices and social growth.C4D strategy is one of the most empowering method of improving healthiness, nourishment and further key social outcomes for children and families.

UNICEF defined C4D as a systematic, planned and evidence-based planned procedure to support positive and assessable individual behaviour and social change that is an integral part of development programmes, policy advocacy and humanitarian job.

UNICEF: Iodine helps to spare a lot of kids From Thyroid Cancer

UNICEF says that the numbers of kids who developed thyroid cancer could have been considerably lesser if they had been consuming iodized salt in their daily diet at the time of the accident at 20th centennial of Chernobyl approaches. 

The areas affected by Chernobyl were iodine deficient before the tragedy, and are still iodine deficient today. Iodine insufficiency disorders are the world’s leading cause of mental retardation and can lesser the average IQ of a populace by as much as 15 points.

IDD is danger to pregnant women and young children. Several efforts to get legislation passed on universal salt iodization in Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, the issue is still being debated.

Nationwide Rural Health Mission training efforts: UNICEF team

A national-level monitoring team of UNICEF has appreciated the efforts of National Rural Health Mission, Nalbari, for carrying out training for the attributed Social Health Activists supervisors.

According to R Samaddar, a health services official throughout this 22-day exhaustive guidance programme, increase across 4 rounds, topics like home-based newborn care, motherly and women's reproduction healthiness, emergency maternal care and society healthcare will be enclosed.

This guidance will give a great momentum to the obtainable system and Asha workers will go during a skill up progression process with which they will be able to work with a better understanding of convoluted health situations and danger symbols.

UNICEF study shows the social networking lifestyle of youth

According to the UNICEF study, the parent’s opinion is that their sons or daughters are possibly typing away on their cell phones, on South Africa’s largest social network – MXit. The increase of the mobile internet in South Africa means that more people, particularly youth, are using social networks as key tools in their individuality configuration.

Africa is currently the world’s fastest growing market for mobile communications, faces food crisis and right to use information technology is necessary for financial, social, cultural and political growth in today’s world.

The high frequency with which MXit users are interacting with strangers, highlights the require for parents, organizations working with children and peer-groups to connect with youthful citizens concerning the possible risks of the digital world and how to avoid them.

Social medium and mobile phones have also complete young people susceptible to new means of bullying or maltreatment. MXit is dedicated to ensuring the security of its users by moderating chartrooms creating age boundaries on content and features making the reporting of mistreatment simple and working with the authorities whenever essential.