Alliance of Youth Movements To Participate In Secretary Clinton’s Internet Freedom Address
January 20th, 2010 - 11:34am
Filed under International Security
Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver a major policy address on Internet freedom on Thursday, January 21 at 9:30 a.m. at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Secretary Clinton's policy address will lay out the Administration's strategy for protecting freedom in the networked age of the 21st century. The speech will underscore the importance of technology as a tool to connect populations around the world to information, to each other and entities, and to actual resources be they financial, judicial, health, or educational. Four fellows representing Alliance of Youth Movements will be featured prominently in Thursday's program. The Alliance of Youth Movements (AYM) is a nonprofit organization that empowers leaders to affect nonviolent change in the world by creating and promoting the use of 21st century tools to safeguard human rights, promote good governance and foster unprecedented civic empowerment.
AYM Fellows on Thursday's panel include::
- Oscar Morales, A Million Voices Against the Farc (Colombia)
- Shubham Kanodie, In Memory of Those Who Died in the November 26th-27th Mumbai Massacre (India)
- Natalia Morari, ThinkMoldova
- Ceren Kenar, Young Civilians (Turkey)
David Nassar, Executive Director of AYM will also be participating in a panel discussion following the Secretary's remarks moderated by Anne Marie Slaughter, the Director of Policy Planning at the State Department.
AYM is the world's leading network of online and mobile social movements for change. The organization has hosted two successful which brought together some of the worlds most innovate social entrepreneurs with some of the world's most exciting technology companies. AYM supporters include Causecast.org, Facebook, Gen Next, Google, Hi5, Howcast Media, MTV, MySpace, Pepsi, Univision Interactive Media, Inc., WordPress.com and YouTube.
"Online technology has unprecedented potential to help us work together to address some of the world's most urgent problems," said Megan J. Smith, vice president of new business development and general manager of Google.org. "We are proud to support the Alliance of Youth Movements and share its vision to empower citizens and communities to influence positive change through the use of today's technology."
"Today we have the power to communicate and connect in real-time through online tools like Twitter," said Jack Dorsey, chairman and co-founder of Twitter. "Traditional social movements can now take advantage of these revolutionary technologies to spread their messages more rapidly and effectively," continued Dorsey.
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