Today, Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (Digi) has announced Nora Nabila Ahmad Sabri and Alina Amir as the local winners of this year’s Telenor Youth Forum (TYF16) challenge. Under the theme “Digitalisation for Peace”, the programme has called for inspiring youths to tackle social challenges through the use of digital solutions.
The two winners were chosen from a pool of 26 talented millennials from Telenor’s 13 markets, nearly 5000 applicants participated in the fourth annual Telenor Youth Forum (TYF) and 2016 Nobel Peace Prize activities. TYF is run by Telenor Group and the Nobel Peace Center, with the aim to empower youth to solve social issues through technology.
Quah Yean Nie, Digi’s Head of Communications and Sustainability said, “This year’s Telenor Youth Forum aims to leverage on the power of digital innovation to address common challenges societies face, while putting youth in the driver seat in finding solutions and making change happen. We believe in youth with ideas, passion and social consciousness as much as we are optimistic on the power of technology, and we are confident that communication across boundaries can foster peace.
“We’re inpsired by the commitment shown by Nora Nabila and Alina in championing the issues they support in addressing social challenges and elevating access to quality education respectively for their communities. We believe that the Telenor Youth Forum provides them with a gateway to channel their passion and energy, and in furthering their ideas through co-creation of innovative solutions with like-minded peers from all around the world, ” she added.
Nora Nabila Ahmad Sabri, 26, a filmmaker used her passion for visual storytelling to spread awareness on social issues in Malaysia with the help of the internet. “My responsibility as a filmmaker goes beyond hitting the record button, as I aim to help give a voice to those unheard through my work. I, for example, had the opportunity to interview a 14-year-old boy on an isolated island in Semporna, Sabah in 2015, who started his own school where he teaches stateless children how to read and learn mathematics. By documenting his touching story and leveraging the power of the internet, I believe that it would help inspire others to take action on the statelessness issue that we face, and play a part in making the world a better place. Through TYF, I hope to expand my horizons and understand different perspectives, which would help in improving my visual storytelling skills.”
28-year-old teacher, Alina Amir, is actively involved in improving the quality of education in Malaysia, and she believes that digitalisation for peace is when digital skills are used to innovate new solutions that make the world a better place. “Last year, I co-founded a social enterprise, Arus Education, which provides underprivileged students with digital skills such as coding and programming, that helps them to automate their solutions for real life problems. I hope to learn about what other young individuals at the Forum have done in their respective countries, and find ways to contextualise solutions to what we go through in Malaysia. This would equip me with the experience and knowledge that could help me be a better educator to my students.”
To read more about the TYF16 and the other 26 delegates from around the world, visit any of the links below to learn more.
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