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Alliance of Youth Movements Summit
From December 3-5, 2008 the First Alliance of Youth Movements Summit took place at Columbia Law School in New York City. Streamed live on Howcast.com and MTV.com, the Summit brought together 17 inspiring leaders who shared how they used online tools to create social change.
The Summit was organized by Howcast Media with additional support from Facebook, Google, YouTube, MTV, Columbia Law School, the U.S. Department of State and Access 360 Media.
Speakers at the Summit included:
Panel topics included How To Mobilize in a Challenging Environment, How To Use Online Media to Create Social Change and Building a Global Movement. View the whole agenda, watch the discussions and view the presentations here.
These discussions contributed to the construction of Creating Grassroots Movements for Change: A Field Manual and the launch of a new organization, The Alliance of Youth Movements that will work to help other organizations use online technology to advance their causes.
The Summit also launched the Youth Movements Hub where emerging youth organizations can access and share “how-to” guides and tips on how to use social-networking and other technologies to promote freedom and justice and counter violence, extremism and oppression. Including instructional videos and text guides, links to related online resources and discussion forums for sharing experiences, ideas and advice, the hub will remain the central resource for The Alliance of Youth Movements.
To celebrate the success of the summit and these inspirational leaders, the participants were honored at a red-carpet event with entertainment celebrities, business leaders, and civil society figures at the former home of MTV’s Total Request Live (“TRL”) overlooking Times Square as well at the Google Headquarters in New York.