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Leo Burd<br />Mitchel Resnick<br />	

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The Young Activists Network (YAN) aims at organizing young people from low-income areas to become agents of change in their neighborhood.  Young people usually have the time, the energy, the will, and the right to participate and help improve the quality of life in the places where they live.  What they lack is appropriate space, support and recognition.  YAN addresses those issues by helping transform existing community technology centers into community empowering spaces that offer the basic technical and human resources necessary to foster sustainable youth-led social change.  
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<p>By working in partnership with existing initiatives and by focusing on youth participation, concrete community challenges, and contextualized uses of technology, we believe that YAN can help youth and adults involved with local community centers to organize themselves better, become aware of new possibilities, share experiences, and build the synergy required for deep and positive social impact that is more akin to their needs and aspirations. 
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<p><font size="2"><a href="/projects/yan/">The Young Activists Network website</a><br>
                <a href="clubhouse.shtml">The Computer Clubhouse Network</a> <br>
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