Ammon News - Social media café Launch in Amman after a success in Beirut

AMMONNEWS - On Monday May 24th at 6:30 pm, the Young Leaders Social Media Café Amman Version will be launched in LaVille Cafe with support from the Swedish Institute. The Swedish Institutes takes a step further in the social movement arising from the Young Leaders Visitors Program (YLVP) www.si.se/ylvp.

YLVP is a leadership program that uses social media as a tool for positive change. With this initiative, which was started by Hiba Farahat & locally run by Malik Shishtawi the former YLVP alumni, the Swedish institute aims to contribute to supporting young visionaries of the new era of social media revolution in creating social change.

Malik points out: “We are trying to apply here in Amman, what Hiba started in Beirut with her vision that despite today’s harsh realities and increasing limitations of human nature, the team at YLSMC has worked hard to bring to life the once utopian claims of Web founding father Tim Berners-Lee.

He believed his invention would remain an open frontier that nobody could own, and that it would take power from the few and give it to the many. And it is an honor to be as AMMAN YLSMC the 2nd Launch in a plan to have it in most of the other Arabic countries”

WHO: General Public, Media, NGOs, civil society, decision makers, students, entrepreneurs, etc.

WHAT: Leading speakers are invited to participate in this open discussion.

WHEN: May 24th, 2010 at 6:30pm

WHERE: LaVille Café, Amman

The Young Leaders Social Media Café is an open space for young adults from all around the MENA region to meet new ideas to get tested, new projects started, new entrepreneurial contacts built and new knowledge disseminated. It allows for a mix of cultural, educational, technical, business and social activists who may never otherwise meet and cross-fertilize.

The YLSMC is a monthly meeting that will take place in different places – a shopping mall, a beauty salon, a factory, a back yard, a bus, etc. The public will most of the spots and locations in Amman.

YLSMC is accessible, everywhere and for everyone. It pushes young leaders of all fields to share, discuss and plan social entrepreneurial projects. It also aims to learning opportunities in the area of free expression, the role of new network technologies and social media in driving processes of social change in addition to finding cross-sectoral synergies. In addition to that, there will be online and offline activities that will stretch out across the year throughout the different cities.