Problems that were aimed to be solved by developing the youth information portal:
- Information available for young people is fragmented;
- According to the results of a survey young people do lack information and the information
available is dispersed by a variety of information sources.
There was a need to establish a unified information system to provide young people with quality,
timely, comprehensive, holistic, and their interests and needs relevant information to support
young people's initiatives and to provide them with the necessary tools to problem-solving.
When developing the information portal use of existing facilities - local information centres,
educational institutions and library resources - was used and new ways and places where young
people have a possibility to find information about educational opportunities, health issues, the
integration of the labour market-related issues, on opportunities to spend leisure time,
opportunities for participation of civil society, on voluntary work for sports activities, social
and other topical issues for young people was introduced.
The portal contains every day updated information on current events in youth policy,
youth policy matters, different projects, youth organization and youth affairs coordinator data
base, possibilities to say opinions and recommendations to involved in youth policy implementation,
as well there is ensured possibility to feedback between portal users and Ministry for Children and
Family Affairs. Till October of year 2008, 227218 persons have visited portal. Daily it is at an
average visited by 500 till 600 visitors.
Portal www.jaunatneslietas.lv serves youngsters as guide where on one spot wide range
information is available regarding youth policy, besides there are gathered
information and links for young people to access necessary and interested information such as
employment, education, participation, culture, sport, etc. Additionally there is created youth
organization data base with communication possibilities and different innovations for ensuring easy
usage; now there is registered 71 youth organization.
One of the main innovations and achievements in the information field
is the within the portal
www.jaunatneslietas.lv created local
youth policy interactive map, where anybpdy can find youth initiative centres,
local youth affair coordinators, child and youth centres and leisure time centres in Latvia.
Especially successful is the convenient operational menu mechanism with which one can
find in the map the closest leisure time utilisation possibilities as well as
youth affairs coordinators and directly communicate with them . |
