At the start of the new century youth unemployment continues to pervade both developed and developing countries.
Over 70 millions young people are unemployed throughout the world according to most recent ILO estimates, most of them are located in Southern, Eastern and Developing countries.
In most countries teenagers and young women face the greatest burden of the problem.
These trends, however, seem to be challenged by the great number of opportunities that are now offered by new technologies. Information and communication technologies are opening up exciting new career opportunities for young people, both as employees and entrepreneurs.
Thousands of new start-up companies are being launched in many countries, both developed and developing ones.
For benefits to be realized, however, countries need to expand their investments in infrastructure need for the use of ICT and, above all, in the training and education of young people.
The expansion of these investments needs the encouragement of partnerships between local institutions and private donors, in particular through the mean of establishing collaborative local, national and international networks.
The purpose of this paper is simply to offer a brief description of some empirical cases that have been implemented both in developed and developing countries, in the hope they can work as an example for future interventions.
All of the cases analysed here have been found by "surfing the net". In describing each of them a particular attention has been paid to the identification of the target group of the projects as well as if projects involve some sort of partnership.
Finally to each project it has been attributed a "Ratio of Interest", which very roughly focuses on how much each project is youth specific, if it takes place in developing or developed countries and if it is internet specific.
Finally all internet addresses are provided as reference