World Scouting
His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, the King of Sweden, has been actively involved in Scouting since his childhood days. In 1955 he joined as a Cub Scout with the name (totem) Mowgli and progressed to the Scout age-section in 1958. At the age of 10, as a...
The first Regional Director of the Eurasia Scout Region, Dr. Alexander Stepanovich Bondar, known as Sacha Bondar, passed away on 14 October 2012. Sacha had joined the World Scout Bureau Eurasia Region as the first Regional Director of the Region in...
The 14th World Scout Moot will take place in Canada from 8 to 18 August 2013. Preparations are underway and the hosts, Association Scouts du Canada, and its Moot organising team are gearing up in several ways to ensure that the event will be a grand...
Six Regional Office Coordinators met in Geneva along with their Messengers of Peace (MoP) colleagues at the World Scout Bureau Central Office from 9 to 11 October to gather updates from the first year of implementing various MoP initiatives and to...
According to some analysts, the Android platform currently leads the mobile phone market, accounting for approximately 60 percent of all smartphone shipments in the first half of 2012. Over half a million actual users are setting up a new Android...
52 particiapnts from 18 countries took part in the Youth For Change workshop that took place from 14 to 16 September in Sriracha, Thailand. The workshop was part of the implementation of the Youth for Change work group. The sessions comprised of four...
Twenty two members of staff from the World Scout Bureau - Central Office and the 6 Regions -joined by João Armando and Mari Nakano, members of the World Scout Committee supporting Educational Methods, met in Thailand from 12 to 16 September to...
The Messengers of Peace global initiative, which started in 2011, has nominated Hero Awards to five people in 2012. The Heroes of Messengers of Peace Awards were presented on Sunday 23rd September 2012 during the National Scout Celebrations of the...
The World Scout Committee has announced the new Secretary General for the World Organization of the Scout Movement. Scott Teare from the United States of America is the new Secretary General of World Scouting. Scott is currently the Director of the...
Located within the border region of Ireland, between Cavan, Fermanagh and Monaghan, the “Castle Saunderson International Scout Centre” will encourage greater levels of interaction amongst young people from different religious, ethnic and cultural...