Event Handbook for JOTA-JOTI 2019 The latest version of this document is available at: www.jotajoti.info/handbook Issue 3.0 18 October 2019 www.jotajoti.info Event Handbook for JOTA-JOTI 2019 Version 3.0 Jamboree On The Internet - Jamboree On The Air JOTA-JOTI 18th, 19th & 20th October 2019 www.jotajoti.info The event hashtag is: #JOTAJOTI jota.joti.wosm jotajoti jota_joti jotajoti.info/youtube Jamboree On The Air – Jamboree On The Internet (JOTA-JOTI) is an official world event of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). The event is co-ordinated on behalf of World Scouting by the members of the World JOTA-JOTI Team (WJJT). The event is open to members of the National Scout Organisations (NSOs) and National Scout Associations (NSAs) of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. The event is also open to members of the Member Organisations (MOs) of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). This Event Handbook has been produced to help support JOTA-JOTI 2019. Member groups of WOSM and WAGGGS are welcome to reproduce this document, in whole or in part, and to translate the document in order to support their participation in JOTA-JOTI. The latest version of this document is available at www.jotajoti.info/handbook Version 3.0, 18 October 2019 World JOTA-JOTI Team World Organization of the Scout Movement Suite 3, Level 17, Menara Sentral Vista, 150 Jalan Sultan Abdul Sanad, Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia www.jotajoti.info Page 2 Event Handbook for JOTA-JOTI 2019 Version 3.0 Contents Page Welcome 4 Jamboree Information 5 What is JOTA-JOTI 5 Why do we have this event? 5 Scouting around the world 6 History of JOTA-JOTI 6 Who’s who 7 World JOTA-JOTI Team 7 National Support 7 Help and Support 8 Code of Conduct 9 Child Protection, Safe from Harm 10 Jamboree Site Layout 11 Sign up of Participants 12 How do we communicate? 13 Amateur Radio 13 Internet Relay Chat (IRC) 15 TeamSpeak 15 Minecraft 16 Skype 16 Zello 16 Listen to the radio 17 Watch television 17 JamPuz 18 Schedule 19 Promoting JOTA-JOTI 20 Media Resources 20 Social Media 20 Trusted Partners 21 What Next? 23 Participation Certificate 24 2020 25 www.jotajoti.info Page 3 Event Handbook for JOTA-JOTI 2019 Version 3.0 Welcome Welcome to the largest event in world Scouting! For 2019 the World JOTA-JOTI Team has introduced a wide range of new programme ideas to help provide activities for your JOTA-JOTI weekend. These new elements, of course, add to the core function of JOTA-JOTI which is to communicate with each other using amateur radio and the internet. A new comprehensive website has also been introduced this year to help act as the gateway to what we hope will be a great event for you. The website will be developed still further for JOTA-JOTI 2020. We recognise that some of you will take part in JOTA-JOTI for just a few hours, while some will have a full weekend of JOTA-JOTI activities and some of you will be taking part in JOTA-JOTI as part of a weekend of different activities. You are unlikely to have the chance to undertake all the activities listed on the event website, so please take the time to look through what is on offer, and decide what is best for you. It could be that some of the activities that you cannot undertake during JOTA-JOTI 2019 could be incorporated into your normal weekly programme. If you are not having a full weekend of JOTA-JOTI activities this year, the wide range of programme ideas and opportunities available may encourage you to hold a longer event next year. We are keen that JOTA-JOTI reaches as many of the members of world Scouting as possible. JOTA-JOTI is already the largest event in World Scouting, but we would like to make it even bigger! We would like to ask for your help with this. Could you invite leaders from other local Scout Groups to visit your event? They could see what a great event it is, and then hopefully run their own event for 2020. Please take the opportunity before JOTA-JOTI to read the Code of Conduct and safeguarding guidance in this document and consider this in planning your event, alongside the guidance / policies of your own National Scout Organization of National Scout Association. Please also consider before your event, how you will help the young people attending your event to have a safe and enjoyable event. Please take the time to explore the online camp site (www.jotajoti.info/campsite), try the activities, make new friends, learn about new techniques, experience magical radio waves, discover the possibilities of the internet you have not seen before, get inspired by other WOSM programmes and above all, have fun. We look forward to meeting you (virtually) during JOTA-JOTI. Ed Lynes, Philip Bird, Isabelle Dufresne-Lienert & Zakran Abdul Manan World JOTA-JOTI Team World Organization of the Scout Movement www.jotajoti.info Page 4 Event Handbook for JOTA-JOTI 2019 Version 3.0 Jamboree Information What is JOTA-JOTI? Want to attend a Scout Jamboree without travel? Want to attend it every year instead of waiting four years? How about attending the annual Jamboree on the Air – Jamboree on the Internet (JOTA-JOTI)? JOTA-JOTI is held every year, the third full weekend of October, and involves most countries of the world and typically close to two million Scouts. It uses modern communication technology to offer Scouts the exciting opportunity to make friends in other countries without even leaving home. JOTA-JOTI is an official international event of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), and is the largest of the WOSM events. JOTA-JOTI is a youth programme event intended for young people in Scouting of all ages. The purpose of JOTA-JOTI is to enable and encourage Scouts around the world to communicate with one another by means of amateur radio and the internet, providing a fun and educational Scouting experience and promoting their sense of belonging to a worldwide Scout Movement. Why do we have this event? Jamboree on the Air – Jamboree on the Internet (JOTA-JOTI) builds cultural awareness, develops tolerance, advocates sharing and collaboration as well as demonstrates teamwork. The event provides exciting opportunities for young people to explore technology and to develop technical skills including fostering innovation and creativity through communicating with other Scouts. A wide range of activities using communication technology are the chief methods of attaining these goals. JOTA-JOTI strives for a meaningful engagement of as many young people from as many parts of the world as possible annually. The third weekend in October is an occasion to celebrate Scouting and to generate positive energy to support the development of the Scout Movement. The event seeks to promote quality Scouting in a manner faithful to the purpose, principles and method of Scouting and consistent with the needs and aspirations of young people in today’s world. The JOTA-JOTI programme shall be a reflection of the Promise, Law, Principles and Method of Scouting, as defined by the WOSM Constitution, and shall also reflect the most up-to-date policies and initiatives of WOSM relating to youth programme for all ages. www.jotajoti.info Page 5 Event Handbook for JOTA-JOTI 2019 Version 3.0 Scouting around the World The Scout Movement was started in England by Lord Baden Powell in 1907. Scouting is an educational youth movement engaging young people from all over the world to promote unity, respect, friendship, under- standing and peace. World Scouting is brought together by the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), which is an independent, world-wide, non-profit, non-partisan organization. Scouting is the largest youth movement in the world and is a worldwide family of 161 National Scout Organizations (NSOs) in a network of over 50 million members in more than 1 million local community Scout Groups. History of JOTA-JOTI The basic concept of the Jamboree was made by Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, who wanted to hold one special event to bring together Scouts of all nationalities. The first Jamboree, held at London’s Olympia in 1920, was the first truly international gathering of Scouts and brought together 8,000 Scouts from 34 countries. ‘Jamboree’ is now an international term used to describe a large gathering of Scouts. Since 1920, World Scout Jamborees have been held every four years (with a few exceptions), and have been hosted by National Scout Organizations all over the world. The first Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) took place in 1958, with the first formally recognised Jamboree On The Internet (JOTI) taking place in 1997. The two events ran alongside each other until 2014. The World Scout Committee decided to merge the two events into a single event – JOTA-JOTI – and in 2015 appointed a World JOTA-JOTI Team to support and develop the event. JOTA-JOTI is the largest World Scouting event. www.jotajoti.info Page 6 Event Handbook for JOTA-JOTI 2019 Version 3.0 Who’s Who World JOTA-JOTI Team The JOTA-JOTI event is an annual event, organized for the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) by the World JOTA-JOTI Team (WJJT). This is a team of volunteers, supported by staff of the World Scout Bureau Global Support Centre Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The members of the World JOTA-JOTI Team are: Ed Lynes, Chair [email protected] From The Boy Scouts of America, United States of America Ed is responsible for co-ordinating all the work of the World JOTA-JOTI Team.