💡A Possible Solution

A tech-enabled paradigm shift.

The concept of the Youth Agency Marketplace (Yoma) resulted from the human-centred design process mentioned above as a holistic approach to address the pain points and increase youth agency across the globe. Yoma is an initiative for youth participants to build and transform their futures by actively engaging in social impact initiatives linked to global goals (e.g. SDGs) and gaining access to learning and economic opportunities.

The platform creates a Youth (Yo) marketplace (ma) enabling participants to engage in opportunities to improve their skills, build their profiles and thrive through the achievement of their life goals and careers either through employment or the entrepreneurship path.

As youth engage in the opportunities offered by Yoma, their active involvement, and skills acquired through completion of tasks and learning are recorded to an interoperable digital identity system called Youth ID (YoID). YoID uses the self-sovereign identity (SSI) framework to put Youth at the centre, and enable various partners to integrate with it, acting as a connector of the global ecosystem.