ARRIBA APEC!! Chile Voices 2004 Excelente!! Over 100 APEC students and educators joined together in Santiago from November 15-21 to produce Voices of the Future for APEC – creating more than 40 hours of multimedia programming linking APEC officials and business leaders to the classrooms and communities of the Pacific Rim. Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and Peru’s President Alejandro Toledo led the way as our featured mentors! Along with these Leaders, more than 40 Senior Officials, ABAC Members, CEOs and Chilean globalists participated in our oncamera interviews, discussion sessions and special programs exploring the APEC Vision. A new multimedia program – ARRIBA APEC!! – was produced by the Voices students representing the Americas. This regional look at APEC was spearheaded by U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noriega and leading globalists from Chile, Canada, Mexico and Peru. Our week in Santiago concluded with a nationally televised Voices special with Chilean Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (shown above). Highlights of the Voices programs were distributed throughout Chile, the Americas and Asia Pacific by a special consortium led by Chile’s Channel 13, Chile’s National Youth Institute, Catholic University of Santiago, Monterrey TEC Virtual University and Prepa System, MTEC Santa Catarina Campus, Creative Consulting of Mexico, Black Ice Entertainment and the American Embassy Television Network.

Now, you can join us in this APEC
learning adventure by clicking HERE!

Please scroll down to see how we prepared for the Voices Chile 2004 program – especially the Andrea and Colomba guide to getting ready!

New Zealand APEC/VTM veteran educator David Ward helps lead Santiago planning meeting for "Voices of the Future for APEC" 2004 with Chile Apec Task Force Director Ambassador Milenko Skoknic (right) and Special Assistant Carlos Bonomo (left).

2004 Voices Program in Chile is Underway!
November 15-21, 2004, Santiago, Chile
Official Host of APEC Voices 2004
National Youth Institute of Chile

New Zealand, Brunei, Monterrey TEC, Richard W. Riley Institute, DECA International, Hispanic Center of Indianapolis, U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, Mrs. Harriet Mayor Fulbright and more...

Chile's Voice of the Future for APEC 2004 is building upon the strengths and successes of past VTM-supported @APEC programs in Malaysia, New Zealand, Brunei and Mexico.

Click here to visit the official Website.

60 Pacific Rim students produce iMovie and TV interviews with leaders at 2002 APEC meetings in Los Cabos, Mexico.

Voices of the Future for APEC brought together 60 Pacific Rim students to produce a special multimedia interview program at this year’s annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation – APEC – meetings in Los Cabos, Mexico connecting APEC classrooms with the leaders of 21 Asia Pacific economies. The six-day APEC education initiative was produced October 22 to 27 from the “APEC Surf Café” - the first-ever student-run APEC broadcast center at an APEC summit. Students from Mexico, the U.S., Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, Thailand and other Pacific economies met with leaders to discuss how APEC’s goal of “cooperation and consensus” can be realized in such a large and diverse network of economies and cultures. This special APEC-themed exhibit features highlights of their work and provides resources to help other students and educators become APEC Learners and Leaders.

APEC SURF CAFÉ features students with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, Mexico Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jorge Castaneda and First Lady Marta Sahagun de Fox. Click here to see the entire VOICES program at Los Cabos APEC 2002.

Click here to see how the VOICES
program was developed by the VTM.

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Sugarloaf Creative
Creative Consulting of Mexico
Black Ice Entertainment, LLC

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VTM Foundation International
701 Penn Ave, NW
PH 18
Washington, DC 20004

Noel Gould, Esq., President

Phone: 202-220-9766
Fax: 202-216-9759

APEC Media Advisor
Peter Parussini
Television New Zealand

Noel Gould, Esq.
President
ngesq@hotmail.com

Rupa Sekhar
Vice President
Global Programs Director
rupa_sekhar@ml.com

Ashley Raker
National VTM Fellow 2006-07
American University
ashley.raker@american.edu

Cindy Youseff
National VTM Fellow 2005-07
Furman University

Pam Lindberg
National VTM Educator
plindber@d21.k12.il.us
Phone: 847-670-3200

Board Members

Dr. Jose Trevino, Sr.
Monterrey TEC Virtual University
and Prepa System (ret.)
Mexico

Francisco Gutierrez
CEMEX
Mexico

Christina Ward
National APEC Educator
New Zealand

Rupa Sekhar
Merrill Lynch

Jim Smith
Executive Vice President
Iowa State Education Assoc.

Javier Becker
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Chile

Kristen Ittig
Arnold & Porter, LLP
Washington, DC

Global Education Partners

Iowa State Education Association

Richard W. Riley Institute at Furman University, South Carolina

Jesse Helms Center at Wingate University, North Carolina

Hispanic Center of Indianapolis, Indiana

DECA International, Virginia

School District 21, Chicago

Monterrey TEC Virtual University and Prepa System

MTEC Santa Catarina Campus

SELIDER of Mexico

University of Brunei Darussalam

Global Vision and Junior Team Canada

National Youth Institute of Chile

Catholic University of Santiago

Korea Ministry of Education and Human Resources International Education Cooperation Division

KyungGi Leecheon High School of Korea

Malaysia Technical Petronas University

VTM New Zealand Trust

Waikato Diocesan School

Waikato University

King’s College, Auckland, New Zealand

San Ignacio de Recalde School of Peru

San Ignacio de Loyola Organization of Peru

Temasek Polytechnic University of Singapore