Ian Lewis Akelo
Ian is a second-year student of Information System Management at Multimedia University College of Kenya. He hopes to become an environmental and human rights lawyer.
He plays forward on his school's basketball team and enjoys traveling, gathering new information, socializing, sharing skills and reading inspirational novels.
He is an activist who specializes in grassroots organizing with an emphasis on web technology, pod casting, video –to- web technology infrastructure, internet outreach, social networking, youth messaging and reaching today´s youth on current global issues.
He is also a writer in the Local newspapers in Kenya where he specializes in writing articles that encompasses on Social, Economic and Political issues hence collaborating on ideas that will shape the destiny of humans over the 21st century and beyond.
Currently Ian is doing his internship with Our Task; Our Task is an international network of young adults aged 15-25 who, with help from adult Mentors, is developing a Youth Earth Plan for the 21st century.
Our Task, with input from many young people in many countries, has developed a vision of the Earth young people would like to inherit from their parents´ and grandparents´ generations. They have also been doing their homework studying twenty respected international outlook studies published by the UN agencies and World Bank and about fifty sustainable development strategies published by the world´s culture-shaping establishments—our governmental, spiritual, corporate, international, educational, media, scientific, and civic institutions.
Our Task focus on the question: How are we humans to meet the legitimate needs of our growing human community without destroying the ability of Earth to support the whole community of life?
He plays forward on his school's basketball team and enjoys traveling, gathering new information, socializing, sharing skills and reading inspirational novels.
He is an activist who specializes in grassroots organizing with an emphasis on web technology, pod casting, video –to- web technology infrastructure, internet outreach, social networking, youth messaging and reaching today´s youth on current global issues.
He is also a writer in the Local newspapers in Kenya where he specializes in writing articles that encompasses on Social, Economic and Political issues hence collaborating on ideas that will shape the destiny of humans over the 21st century and beyond.
Currently Ian is doing his internship with Our Task; Our Task is an international network of young adults aged 15-25 who, with help from adult Mentors, is developing a Youth Earth Plan for the 21st century.
Our Task, with input from many young people in many countries, has developed a vision of the Earth young people would like to inherit from their parents´ and grandparents´ generations. They have also been doing their homework studying twenty respected international outlook studies published by the UN agencies and World Bank and about fifty sustainable development strategies published by the world´s culture-shaping establishments—our governmental, spiritual, corporate, international, educational, media, scientific, and civic institutions.
Our Task focus on the question: How are we humans to meet the legitimate needs of our growing human community without destroying the ability of Earth to support the whole community of life?
Articles by Ian Lewis Akelo
September 02, 2009
When anarchy reigns, the wealthy can flee to exile but when Mother Nature turns her wrath on humanity for mistreating her, there will be no place to hide.
Let´s face it. Environmental degradation is the greatest danger to existence- on land, sea or in air-and one needs to be a real fool not to fath...
September 02, 2009
The Kenyan coastal resorts have in the past attracted wealthy businessmen and celebrities such as formula one boss Flavio Briatore and British supermodel Naomi Campbell. They are among the fabulously rich foreigners and Kenyans who own dream holiday homes on beachfronts.
Kenya is a land fame...