Digital Media to Promote Freedom and Justice, Counter Violence, Extremism and Oppression

Facebook, Google, YouTube, MTV, Howcast, Columbia Law School, the U.S. Department of State and Access 360 Media has taken the initiative to use the potential of digital media to  Promote Freedom and Justice, Counter Violence, Extremism and Oppression.

For this purpose a summit is being organized on Dec3-5  at the Columbia Law School in Manhattan.

Facebook, Google, YouTube, MTV, Howcast, Columbia Law School, the U.S. Department of State and Access 360 Media are bringing leaders of 17 pioneering organizations from 15 countries together with technology experts .

These young leaders will form a new group, the Alliance of Youth Movements, which will produce a field manual for youth empowerment.

The New York summit will bring together such organizations as One Million Voices Against the FARC, Save Darfur Coalition, Genocide Intervention Network, Burma Global Action Network and Invisible Children.

The gathering was inspired by the success of the One Million Voices Against the FARC, a group started on Facebook.com by young people in Colombia. Aided by social networking technologies, the organization inspired 12 million people in 190 cities around the world to take to the streets in protest against the FARC.

Panels will discuss a variety of practical topics, including How To Build Transnational Social Movements Using New Technology, How To Use New Mobile Technologies and How To Preserve Group Safety And Security.

You can find more info here. and at Facebook blog.