CRIS Youth Arm forms

A group of young people who have been active in the WSIS process and with organizations involved in youth, ICTs, sustainable development, and human rights have formed a Youth Arm of the Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) campaign.

We plan to work at various levels towards the vision of an 'Information Society' with people at the center. In the immediate future we hope to:

-work with the WSIS youth caucus to ensure participation for a wide range of youth in the WSIS process, including young members of communities currently excluded from the new communications technologies.

-work with young people at various fora (for example the III Global Congress on Community Networking in Montreal, the ITU TeleCom Youth Forum, the PrepComs and the WSIS itself, as well as others outside the UN system such as Media Democracy Day and the World Social Forum) to advocate the idea of technology as a tool, not an end in itself, and to ensure that attention is paid to the social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental impacts of technologies.

We invite those interested in working with CRIS youth to join our mailing list, [email protected]. You can sign up at comunica.org/mailman/listinfo/cris_youth_comunica.org More information on CRIS-Youth is currently available at projects.takingitglobal.org/crisyouth Peace 'Gbenga Sesan (Nigeria)
Gustavo Noronha Silva (Brazil)
Ha Lan Anh (Vietnam)
Sasha Costanza-Chock (USA)

for CRIS-Youth