{"id":1702,"date":"2019-12-10T16:19:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aciamericas.coop\/xxiconference\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2019-12-19T19:35:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T00:35:48","slug":"young-cooperators-of-the-continent-held-the-regional-youth-meeting-in-costa-rica-youth-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aciamericas.coop\/xxiconference\/young-cooperators-of-the-continent-held-the-regional-youth-meeting-in-costa-rica-youth-4-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Cooperators of the continent held the Regional Youth Meeting in Costa Rica: YOUTH 4.0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Regional Youth Committee of Cooperatives of\nthe Americas (CRJ) and the Cooperative Youth of the Americas successfully held\nthe Regional Youth Meeting of Cooperatives of the Americas “Youth 4.0:\nEntrepreneurship, Innovation, Communication and Advocacy”, this event was\nco-financed by the ICA-European Union Program: COOPS4DEV\ud83c\udf0e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event was held on November 18 in the framework\nof the XXI Regional Conference of Cooperatives of the Americas in the city of\nSan Jos\u00e9 de Costa Rica, this activity was attended by more than 150 young\npeople representing more than 7 nationalities. During the meeting, different\npresentations were discussed under the topic: “Youth 4.0” from its\ndifferent perspectives  thus  managing to visualize the role of the new\ngenerations of cooperatives to face the transformation involved in Industry 4.0,\nin particular the the importance of generational inclusion for the\ntechnological, economic and social paradigm changes of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a first instance, Isidro Ram\u00edrez of the JCOOP\nNetwork of Costa Rica, presented a contextualization of what is Industry 4.0 to\nmake way for the first block of speakers where the members of the Board of\nDirectors of the CRJ spoke about the different sub-themes of the meeting:\ninnovation, entrepreneurship, communication and advocacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The need to continue working on collectivism and\nnot individualism as a characteristic that young people should continue to develop\nand implement in cooperative organizations  was raised, and it was reaffirmed that it is\nyoung people who bear knowledge in order to bring cooperatives to their\ntechnological update while always having in mind the cooperative perspective  “we have a great challenge: to adapt to\nthe new technological and creative scenario from cooperative sector since the\ndigital economy is rapidly consolidating  in our  societies,\neconomies and lifestyles”, said Angelica Soberanes,  President of the Regional Youth Committee of\nCooperatives of the Am\u00e9rcias (CRJ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compared to previous years youth meetings, this year\u2019s\nwas attended by many directors and senior managers to understand the needs of\nyoung people and discuss about how young people can be integrated into\npositions of decision making. In that sense, youth recognized that sometimes\nyoung people have the initiative and the ideas, but they need to land them and\nhave greater commitment to achieve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this laboratory the position of the cooperative\nyouth that seeks to question whether the sector is prepared for this new\nrevolution 4.0 and what is the role of youth as a guide to getting cooperatives\nnot left behind was evident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having the participation of civil society\nrepresentatives interested in learning about the cooperative movement, the\nimportance of working and strengthening cooperation with different actors in\nsociety was evidenced, in order to create strategic alliances among which the\ngovernment was highlighted as one of the most relevant to achieve the changes\nwe need in our society, that is why this parallel session had the participation\nof  Jos\u00e9 Daniel Campos of the Cantonal\nCommittee of the Young Person of Escaz\u00fa and Soshill Prado of the Municipality\nof Escaz\u00fa to share the opportunities and work that have been developed in the\nregion for young people of Costa Rica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also have the presence of two of the case\nstudies selected for the Youth and Cooperatives research, promoted by the ICA-European\nUnion Program (COOPS4DEV\ud83c\udf0e), such as COOPEVICTORIA and CSN Financial\nCooperative, from Costa Rica and Mexico respectively, with the aim of making\nyoung  attendees aware of success stories\nof participation or insertion of youth in cooperatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise, to reinforce the issue of political\nadvocacy, the experience of the case of CONAJOVEN in Honduras was presented,\nwhere they managed to get the government of their country to recognize the cooperative\nyouth with the Certification of Legal Status through the 1096 agreement of the\nNational Register of Cooperatives and with the participation of UN HABITAT with\nthe theme of the inclusion of young people in the construction of public policy\nof cities and human settlements in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding the importance of communications, it was\nreflected from the cooperative and non-cooperative perspective to analyze what\ncharacteristics are needed within cooperative organizations so that our\ninternal and external communication strategies have the impact and effectiveness\nrequired by Industry 4.0, for this topic Helen Badilla (CEO Neurotrader Latin\nAmerica) was de speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the cooperative model and for present\norganizations, it is urgent to promote generational inclusion and to promote\nthe opening of spaces for the enormous potential of youth, this in order to\ncontribute to the growth, modernization and development of the sector to face\nnew socio-economic dynamics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Regional Youth Committee of Cooperatives of the Americas (CRJ) and the Cooperative Youth of the Americas successfully held the Regional Youth Meeting of Cooperatives of the Americas “Youth 4.0: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Communication and Advocacy”, this event was co-financed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conslusions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aciamericas.coop\/xxiconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aciamericas.coop\/xxiconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aciamericas.coop\/xxiconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aciamericas.coop\/xxiconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aciamericas.coop\/xxiconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aciamericas.coop\/xxiconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/aciamericas.coop\/xxiconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aciamericas.coop\/xxiconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aciamericas.coop\/xxiconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aciamericas.coop\/xxiconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aciamericas.coop\/xxiconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}