Mandate the Future's global youth forum EVENT 2002 connects and mobilizes youth from all over the world - privileged and unprivileged, North and South, rich and poor - into a common forum to discuss and debate issues of immense significance to all of us. It unravels and brings into the open issues, concerns, viewpoints, needs, desires of our southern youth, on issues ranging from poverty and health to ICT. Mandate the Future also arranges for direct communication between young people all over the world, and experts to guide and inform them.