For a detailed project description, check out the
YME WIKI (should not require a password, but just in case, use username guest@mediaventure.org password guest).
Help let others know about it by sending a version of this YME promotion letter
YME is a "creative commons", a free, open, and always-on publishing platform for young media-makers worldwide. Its purpose is to make it easy for any youth media organization anywhere to empower its members to publish their work online, and for the best of that work to get mainstream exposure.
This effort provides:
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unlimited and universally accessible free hosting for youth-made media
- a suite of tools for using it, for collaborating with others, and for discovering the best within
- translation of interfaces to ensure access in as many languages as possible
- mainstream exposure for the best of it through Link TV and other television outlets
- and development of long-term financial value built around an engaged participant community
We believe that such an invitation to publish and share creations will facilitate an explosion of collaboration and participation, as an alternative to the culture of consumption that MTV and other corporate culture feeds youth.
If it ramps up as fast as we think it can, it can have a significant positive effect on the upcoming US election, by engaging young, global voices in the process.
This is an historic opportunity to help a massive but diffuse and inaccessible global community of creators to auto-catalyze an ecosystem, founded on media justice, that could attract audiences that rival MTV's.
