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| − | ==History==
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| − | Alliance for Youth Movement (AYM) was formed in 2008 with a summit held in New York City. The event was organised by the US State Department partnered with MTV, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Howcast, AT&T, Jet Blue, Gen-Next, Access360Media and Columbia Law School. The aim was to encourage young people from around the world to use various digital mediums to voice their concerns over global issues such as oppression and censorship.
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| − | The AYM Summit is now an annual event, most recently being held in London on March 2010, after Mexico City hosted in 2009.
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| − | ===2008 Summit===
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| − | The founding Summit in New York City featured a variety of high-profile keynote speakers, including two of the AYM co-founders, Jason Liebman and Roman Tsunder. Also present were Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, James K. Glassman, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs,and Actress Whoopi Goldberg.
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| − | Among the topics and issues that were raised were "Building a Movement Against Terrorism", "Building a Global Movement", "How to Be an Effective Dissident", " Addressing Violence at Home" and "Mobilizing in a Challenging Environment".<ref>"[http://www.movements.org/pages/new-york-city-2008]", Alliance for Youth Movement - New York City 2008, accessed 15 October 2010</ref>
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| − | ===2009 Summit===
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| − | Due to the success of the original AYM Summit, US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, organised a second AYM summit to be held in Mexico City the following year.<ref>"[http://info.howcast.com/youthmovements/aym-about]", HowCast Website - About AYM, accessed 16 October 2010</ref>
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| − | ===2010 Summit===
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| − | ===AYM Website Launch===
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| − | ==People==
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| − | ===Team===
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| − | <ref> "[http://www.movements.org/pages/team]" Alliance for Youth Movements: Team </ref>
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| − | [[Jason Liebman]] '''Co-Founder and Board Member''' <br>
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| − | [[Roman Tsunder]] '''Co-Founder and Board Member'''<br>
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| − | [[Jared Cohen]] '''Co-Founder and Board Member''' <br>
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| − | [[Susannah Vila]] '''Director of Content and Outreach''' <br>
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| − | [[Rachel Silver]] '''Development and Corporate Partnership Manager''' <br>
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| − | ==Funding==
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| − | ==Activities==
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| − | ==Digital Diplomacy and it's critics==
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| − | ==Contact==
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| − | Alliance for Youth Movements Website<ref>"[http://www.movements.org/ Movements Homapage]", Alliance for Youth Movements, accessed 12 October 2010</ref>
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| − | ==Notes==
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