Note: Nation1 merged with TakingITGlobal in 2001. This record is kept for historical purposes only.
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Imagine a mega support network, a system which provides the starting-point and tools for anybody to join the Youth Movement.
With the click of a few buttons, you...
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Note: Nation1 merged with TakingITGlobal in 2001. This record is kept for historical purposes only.
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Imagine a mega support network, a system which provides the starting-point and tools for anybody to join the Youth Movement.
With the click of a few buttons, you will be able to do things like:
- Join regional and global action projects that interest you.
Coordinate action yourself, through the Internet and real-world networks.
- Locate financial resources yourself.
- Take part in a referendums called for by United Nations youth networks.
- Find new friends in any country conceivable, or test out cutting-edge translation systems.
- Get first-hand information for school projects from experts around the world.
- Find and participate in or promote real-life youth events.
- Participate in new political and economic systems unique to electronic nations.
- Make use of Nation1's connections with different corporations, governments, NGOs, agencies, and world decision making bodies.
- Hear the latest world news from kids on the scene.
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Although conceived in 1997, Nation1 took off at the Junior Summit 1998, an event hosted by the MIT Media Lab. Young people converged for one week to develop action plans, tackling the world's most pressing problems with technology and youth energy.