From social media to social impact | Amonge Sinxoto | TEDxLytteltonWomen
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- Опубліковано 14 бер 2019
- This talk explores youth empowerment in the digital age and how youth are leveraging social media to effect social impact. Amonge provides a fresh perspective on how teenagers can drive youth empowerment in a digital age, using digital media for amplifying voice and mobilising for change and social impact Amonge is a 17 year old upcoming creative, writer and youth activist. She is a leader and a young ambassador of national reformation. Her ideas and contributions as a youth marketer have been developing since her early involvement in the HDI Youth Marketing as a Junior Board Member. Amonge is passionate about cultivating young minds and stimulating youth entrepreneurship. She currently curates workshops of youth focus groups on various societal topics namely: Youth Activism, Women Leadership, Women and Children’s Rights, Non-racial and Non-sexist society, Youth Trends & Social Media, Evolving Culture, Generation Gap, Politics and Future possibilities etc. As she heads towards the end of her high school career, she plans on majoring in Social Entreprenuership in order to develop her tools to tell her generation’s stories and minoring in theatre because she is passionate about utilising the arts to mobilise nations. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I absolutely agree on your opinion that social media, made everything more accessable for everyone. It is indeed a strong tool to share informations, to inform and to find people sharing the same believes with you. As we could see in the history it influenced many social movements and lead them to success.
You mentioned in the video 4 Points or it can be seen as a checklist.
1. Invest in the cause
It is true, to achieve a social impact and the desired outcome it needs some sort of acitvism. In contrast I also think that social media lowered the motivation for actual pysical participation in social movements. People are satisfied if they like and post for their cause but are not or at least less willing to actually go into the streets to fight for it. In some cases liking and posting will do the work, especially for the last point you mentioned. The consistency. If people share and like post, it will stay longer in the heads of people, becoming a wont and absolutly normal.
2. Find them
There is nothing I can add to it. Social media completely changed the communication and the organization for social media. As you said it lad to a vast global connectivity. It became easier to get it touch with people even though you do not know them, to become support for your cause by millions of people and to spread you incentives.
3.Prepare and Populate a Remedy
This point is maybe one of the most important. If we desire a impact a change in the world, we have pave the path and actually lead the direction step by step. This is what I am missing in climate change movements. They do not make demands or any solutions that need to be implemented to achieve a change. They do not have to come up with solutions themselve but they need to demand it and stay consistend until they get their wanted outcome.
3. Consitency
Something to become a necessity it has to become normality by consitency. Nothing to add.
Last point I want to mention is that it is our duty to protect the integrity of social media. Their are still regimes using social media against their people by censoring information, sharing fake news and suppress the nation. This has to change to fully use the strenghts of social media.
This is the most precised tedtalk I have ever watched... And so great that its by some one that truly inspires me..
Amazing..... you are going to be a great leader
Beautiful and powerful. This is the future of Africa. In great hands🔥🌍❤️
Whoooooooo go Amonge, let em know. Such an inclusive look at the full reach and power of social media as a tool of change.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Amonge 😩 siyabonga kusikhulumela sisi.
Great talk Amonge. Big-ups!
I relate so much to her opening line because same thing with my current school
Gahd!! I love her so much 😭❤️❤️❤️
i love this, this is really powerful
Halala Amonge. Siyazidla ngawe 🤸🏾♀️
You are never too young to inspire
I love her so much 💞💞💞
I love this so much ❤
I feel like this would be inspirational if it was not homework.
aye yo same ngl
chihiro has the despair disease I swear the teacher dropping a million assignments these days
@@pyro_chemicals1671 I really want to go back
chihiro has the despair disease same
BESIDES IM TRYING TO PLAY LITTLE NIGHTMARES AND FINISH THAT GAME BUT SCHOOL IS LIKE HECK NO
A queen ❤️☝🏾
You are amazing!
I love this
This is incredible
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I'm a bit baffled in terms of comprehending the idea she's trying to convey. Anyone can sum it up, please? The confusion is raised cause she started to mention the struggles of African-American,then switched to environmental downfalls and then to social media effect. I'm not a native speaker therefore it raised more questions, though no doubts she's a brilliant speaker.
Simple yet deep :)
🙏🏿❤️
she uses instagram.
this is boring zzZZ