Rotterdam, Nederlands – December 13, 2005

Recently AIESEC representatives traveled to Tunisia to participate in the second phase of the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS), a follow up to the initial meeting in Geneva in 2003.

The summit was designed to bring together representatives from over 190 countries including over 50 heads of state, government ministers, and global leadership in civil society organizations and non-governmental organizations.The meeting was an end result to months of consultation and negotiation talks among member states, private and non-governmental organizations to share a broad spectrum of experiences and issues related to the Information Society.

Rotterdam, Nederlands – December 24, 2005

Brodie Boland and Petr Skvaril attended the United Nations Global Compact Summit recently hosted in Shanghai. Along with hundreds of other senior leaders of China and the world's leading business and civil society organizations, they engaged in the Global Compact's dialogue around how business can contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The Global Compact is a coalition of organizations that voluntarily commit to adhering by ten principles of corporate responsibility.

Rotterdam, Nederlands – November 24, 2005

Last week, AIESEC, the world’s largest student organization, was awarded with the Media-Tenor Special Award at the Sixth Annual International Agenda Setting Conference in Lugano, Switzerland.

Matthias Vollbracht, Executive Director of Media-Tenor, who comments, presented the award, “We give this award to an organization we feel has been relevant in tackling issues but does not get enough credit in the media. For this, Media-Tenor extends the award by providing one year free consultancy to this organization to help them gain media visibility for the work they are doing around the globe.”