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Alliance for Youth Movement (AYM) was formed at a summit organised in 2008 in New York City. This was to encourage young people from around the world to use various digital mediums to voice their concerns over global problems such as oppression and censorship.
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Alliance for Youth Movement (AYM) was formed at a summit organised in 2008 in New York City. The aim was to encourage young people from around the world to use various digital mediums to voice their concerns over global problems such as oppression and censorship.
  
 
The AYM Summit is now an annual event, most recently being held in London on March 2010, after Mexico City hosted in 2009.
 
The AYM Summit is now an annual event, most recently being held in London on March 2010, after Mexico City hosted in 2009.
  
The founding Summit....
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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
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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, accessed 16 October 2010</ref>
  
 
==People==
 
==People==

Revision as of 21:04, 18 October 2010

Ross Holland Kashif Riaz Kevin Harkins Gavin Ross


History

Alliance for Youth Movement (AYM) was formed at a summit organised in 2008 in New York City. The aim was to encourage young people from around the world to use various digital mediums to voice their concerns over global problems such as oppression and censorship.

The AYM Summit is now an annual event, most recently being held in London on March 2010, after Mexico City hosted in 2009.

2008 Summit

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.

Among the topics and issues that

2009 Summit

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.[1]

People

Team

[2]

Jason Liebman Co-Founder and Board Member
Roman Tsunder Co-Founder and Board Member
Jared Cohen Co-Founder and Board Member
Susannah Vila Director of Content and Outreach
Rachel Silver Development and Corporate Partnership Manager

Funding

Activities

Digital Diplomacy and it's critics

Contact

Alliance for Youth Movements Website[3]

Notes

  1. "[1]", HowCast Website, accessed 16 October 2010
  2. "[2]" Alliance for Youth Movements: Team
  3. "Movements Homapage", Alliance for Youth Movements, accessed 12 October 2010