WOW BALI INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE

WOW ADVENTURE LEARNING TOUR

Proposal

RIDING THE WAVE OF CONTAGIOUS ENTHUSIASM born in FEALAC Youths Conference 2015 in Bandung, WOW Bali is helping to empower the youths of Latin America and East Asia “in the spirit of togetherness.”

Bali, October 1, 2015.

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I. Background Globalization and interdependence are the characteristics of contemporary international relations. While there areopportunities, we are also facing common global challenges that affect all nations and the sustainable development of all humankind. Thiswas addressed in a democratic and transparent manner(“Uluwatu Declaration” establishedin the 6th Foreign Minister meeting. Bali, 13 – 14 June 2013)

We share the common view that in order to promote an increasing interconnectivity of our two regions, the deepening and broadening of the existing bi-regional cooperation play crucial roles (…) In order to ensure a fair and sustainable development, we encourage cooperation and dialogue on macroeconomic policies and development strategies among FEALAC member countries.”¹ There is the political will and the commitment of FEALAC members evidenced in the 7 Foreign Ministers Meeting (FMM) that has been held since the forum was created tofacilitate a cooperative development initiatives. It is from that same political will and commitment that the work of our youthbegan.FEALAC Youth intends toplay a role in moving forward with the opportunities at hand i.e. whatthe bi-regional cooperation can bring on the table. These youths, representing various countries in East Asia and Latin America, are the leaders of tomorrow. They are the ones who will become the decision makers and the ones who will sit on the chairs of the future FMM. When their time comes, they will be the frontliners, the fuel and the gear of the organization and ministerial agreements.

FEALAC Youth Conference 2015 in Bandung brought together 300 youths between 16 and 26 years of age fromthe 36member countries, including 100 Indonesian representatives. The event facilitatedthe development of social relations through interaction and socialization to establish friendly relations amongthe Delegates, encourage sportsmanship and positive mental attitude to the young participants.The event hosted presentations on social entrepreneurship, online based business development, and sustainable dynamics for regenerative sustainability development to showcase the solutions to environment preservation and management of natural, cultural & human resources. In particular, theonline learning exchanges for Marine-based entrepreneurship made a big impact on the youth delegates.

In supporting FEALAC Ministry’s agreement on the need of education and knowledge exchange to …explore collaboration focusing on technology based entrepreneurship including transfer of knowledge; joint knowledge management such as initiatives related to training and research projects; academic and business mobility including exchange of professors and students, as well as business associations in tech and labor intensive areas (…)¹ andthe Youth Delegates’ passion in regenerative development at the grass-roots level, WOW Bali initiated “Adventure Learning Tour” program to empower the youth.

II. The Project

WOW’s grass-roots approach, developed at the turn of the century, had been case-studied by the NationalAlliance of New Media Arts and Culture and was cited as the most innovative approach in inspiring youths with new media. This approach positioned Hai Dai, WOW co-founder, to be the Multimedia Director forUNESCO’s Youth Global Ambassador program in 2006.(see Fig. 1, WOW Celebration ProgramsInfographic)

WOW Bali’s 15 years of sustainable dynamics research and learning exchange enables WOW Bali to accept the FEALAC Youth’s request—and the responsibility—in hosting the “Adventure Learning Tour”. WOW Bali’s“Adventure Learning Tour” is a project basedon WOW’s Sustainable Dynamics and is designed in accordance to all principles of FEALAC, the work’s agendas, and the FMM declarations: (…) we reiterate our commitment to a sustainable, inclusive economic growth by addressing global environmental challenges, strengthening resilience and improving disaster preparedness capacities. We will join our efforts and strive towards achieving a more stable climate, clean atmosphere, healthy and productive forests and oceans, which are just some of the environmental resources from which we all benefit.¹ WOW plays the role of the implementing agency—an NGO with amissionto provide mentoring and structural support in inspiring transformational leadership among the FEALAC youth. We believe thatthe “Adventure Learning Tour” is just the beginning of what promises to be a continuous journey. The path thatwas initiated in Indonesiagivesthe country a big opportunityto play an important rolein ensuring itscontinuance. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” -Nelson Mandela.Education is a unique solution to tackle our current global challenges. The youth are the future; but it is the older generation’s responsibility to prepare the leaders, professionals, worker, entrepreneurs and teachers, andensure the next generation’s right to a sustainablefuture.

TOUR DATES: OCTOBER 21- 28, 2015 WOW Adventure Tour for “Action Learning”*|Tentative Itinerary | OCT 21st - Welcome to WOW Camp and POW WOW for Inspirations (Logistic DOWNLOAD)

OCT 22nd - Cultural Integration Session with Maestro Raka& Cultural Creatives: CokIba (Ubud’s King), AgungRai (Cultural Ambassador at ARMA)

OCT 23rd – Traveling and Active Learning Module – New Media training -- “On the Road” session. OCT 24th – Meeting with Pemuteran Festival Committee & Marine GEO Download Session with BioRock Project and Pak Prana&Mr. Yuri Romero;& Festival Presentation Rehearsal OCT 25th –New Media Transmissions; Festival Presentation Rehearsal

OCT 26TH – FESTIVAL PRESENTATION; New Media Interviews &Learning Exchange with Communities at Festival

OCT 27TH – Return to WOW Camp for Adventure Content UPLOADS (digital sharing) OCT 28TH – END OF TOUR POWWOW (gathering) * Action learning exchanges will consist of Dynamic Wellness, Creative Autonomy and Transformative Leadership learning module in REAL life situations so everything on Tour will be a learning experience.

III. Objectives

• To empower the FEALAC youth with a holistic participatory approach in understanding sustainable dynamicsthrough hands-on learning experience.

• To establishEnvironmental Education asthe cornerstone for sustainable developmentby experiencing Mother Nature with fun, joy and love.

• To build character in solving problemsholisticallyusing a multidisciplinary approachand creativity as thepillar strategy in finding solution: the culture engineering, the environment architects as othernew merged concepts.

• To strengthen the preservation of the Natural and Cultural Heritage through the acknowledgement, respect and lovegained from experiencing the richness of the cultural exchangeand diversityamong FEALAC youth.

• To build capacity in mitigation, resilience and adaptation for climate changes. Adaptation as the new concept design versus new challenges.

• To experience and understand sustainable dynamics in developing community-based entrepreneurship not only as solution for livelihood improvement and family wellness, but also as an ethical principle in developing sustainability among the FEALAC community.

IV. The Outputs

WOW Bali’s “Adventure Learning Tour” will “deep dive” into various parts of Bali’s Marine Life Festival in Pemuteran from 23 October 2015through26 October2015, to raise awareness of Bali’s delicate marine ecosystem and its surrounding. We believe that Pemuteran Festival is the perfect event to present the Youth with real life example of Marine conservation, community-based entrepreneurship and sustainable tourism.Experiencing the Festival—situated in the prize-winning tourist destination—will allow the participants to sample best practice and the less effective practices of the management using proactive, dynamic and creative approach.

WOW Bali’s Adventure Learning tour will be headquartered at WOW’s SekarBumi Farm, 30 minutes north of Ubud. The farm, owned by Pak KetutSubagia, is home to the mammoth butterflies and “flying draco” dragon. SekarBumi is one of the largest co-op farms, with the participation of more than 100 families. Delegates will have the chanceto experience how sustainable farming is done communally. It’s indeed the first output and one of the main contributions of WOW Bali to the event and the participants. The expected outputs are:

• Talk Show on “Sustainable marine economy, and marine-trepreneur development in Buleleng”-Featuringinternational speakers at FEALAC Youths Conference—the “Dynamic Duo”—the Cuban marine geophysicist and archaeologist Yuri Romero and the Vietnamese world citizen WOW Bali founder and creative director,Hai Dai.

• Talk Showon community-based tourism development – Featuring the community visionaries who turned “a poverty-stricken area into a prize-winning tourist destination” of Pemuteran, Pak AgungPrana and his two sons, Bagus Mantra and AgungWah. *Talk Show format supported by Mr. Ajay Vidyasagar, YouTube’s Partnerships Director of AsiaPacific. Our goals are to develop the delegates’ learning skills with online and mobile technology using WOW’s soft skills and transformative leadership approach.

• Learning Exchange and Edutainment Contentof the Adventure Learning Tour Experience –One of which that will initiate the Adventure Learning Tour is the cultural exchange between NiangRaka, Bali’s oldest dance maestro,anda dancer youth Delegate, Joelle Ferrier, from Suriname who will discussthe similarities between cultures through dance and its natural ability to connect people.

• Survey, Research and Case Studyon sustainable, self-organized community based projects – Put together by a Costa Rica Delegate, Angelica Acuna, which aims to analyzethe effectiveness of a community-based effortsinpreserving theenvironmentand protecting the marine life in smalltourism-based towns.

• Community-basedWorkshops and Dynamic Learning Exchangein solving the problem of environment management using New Media tools - Conducted by Raymard C. Guiterrez from the Philippines, producer at Voice of the Youth Radiofeaturing otherYouth Delegates and the local community members.

• Eco-tourism Best Practice for Regenerative Sustainability. The Delegates will use their creative thinking, inspired from their first-hand experience with the community-based farming in the mountains and marine development by the sea,to evaluate, criticize and suggest new models & modules in sustainable tourism.

This project is an on-going dynamic and creative initiative, which can be expanded and/orimplemented in other FEALAC event. It is something to care for, to work on and to enjoy.

The FEALAC Youth Wave has just begun. Let’s keep the wave high!

V. The outcomes

The outcomes expected from the deliverables of this event are:

• In the short term: Learning, which creates awareness, knowledge, attitude, skills, opinion, aspirations and motivations.

• In the medium term analysis we expect: Action, which transforms behaviour, practice, decision-making, policies, and social actions.

• And in the long term: Conditions, which affect social, economy, people and environment.

In summary, the goal of this project is capacity-building for the youth—the agents of change—that the world needs to lead the future. This is not a youth utopia, but FEALAC’s mission as presented in the 7th Foreign Ministers Meeting, in San Jose, Costa Rica two months ago: To achieve “Two Regions, One Vision”, we realize the importance of connectivity between the two regions in enhancing and strengthening cooperation in all sectors, and in the efforts to narrow the distance and gaps. (…) Sustainability, as a model for development, raises the need to satisfy the current requirements of society without compromising the right of future generations to satisfy theirs. Tourism is a resource intensive activity and the incorporation of sustainability criteria for this matter represents an area of opportunity for both regions and their communities. Consequently, we envision sustainable tourism as a balanced interaction in the proper use of our natural and cultural resources respecting the sovereignty and inherent right of each people. This type of tourism contributes to improving the quality of life of local communities and to their development.²

VI. Conclusions With WOW’s “Sustainable Dynamic Collective” framework—a collaborative partnership amongbusinesses, academia, government, NGO’s and the communities—we hope to continue the wave we have started with the youth’s leadership at FEALAC Youth Conference 2015 in Bandung (see fig. 2, WOW Sustainable DynamicsInfoGraphics). We intend to help create the ripple effect of wellness among our youths and empower them with the digital tools and process of social holistic entrepreneurship for regenerative development in their home countries.

The FEALACYouth Delegates and the WOW Bali team are committed in realizing thisintention and project plan. We understand the importance of the Ministry’s support in helping us move forward with this “Adventure Learning Tour” program as well as the creation of similar futureprograms in others countries.

FEALAC is about cooperation, mutualism and empowerment all ingredients of the youth enthusiasm.

Outlined below is our request to FEALAC Indonesia:

• Your consent for the execution and proper development of the project with full acknowledgement from FEALAC.

• Your coverage for expenses related to sending national youth delegates. WOW Bali isactively seeking sponsorship and financing to ensure foreign delegates participation, and related to the issue above. It will be a substantial support to have FEALAC Indonesia and Ministry of Foreign Affair bear the expenses for the national participants for the optimum returns and its deliverable outcomes for future sustainable dynamics.

• Your support in organizing the participation of Indonesian parties in the fields of marine, tourism, agriculture, social, etc., especially if they are represented by youth.

• Your support, advice and assistance in any issue regarding to coordination with authorities and government supervisors.

• Your support in the form of a budget for operationsand other minor expenses, which would helprelease current pressure for limitations in materials and facilities for the event.

• Your suggestions related to the project as FEALAC Indonesia representative.

We are very optimistic on the results of this event and the continuity of the work.Let our youth continue to set the change in history.

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¹ 6th Foreign Ministers' Meeting (FMM VI) - Jun.13-14, 2013 in Bali, Indonesia.

² 7th Foreign Ministers' Meeting (FMM VII) - Aug. 21, 2015 in San José, Costa Rica

Fig. 1, WOW Celebration Programs Infographic

Fig. 2, WOW Sustainable Dynamics Infographic