Goals: To enable 13- to 25-year-olds to express their views using video conferencing technology
Funding: Running costs of 3,000 a year divided between Connexions Cumbria and eight partner organisations. The 10 sets of equipment, worth 5,000 each, were provided by the North West Development Agency
Called "groundbreaking" by then skills minister Ivan Lewis in March last year, the Connexions-led video conferencing partnership sees itself as being at the forefront of technology-based youth participation.
Conceived by the North West Regional Assembly as a way of getting young people more politically engaged, the project was formed in September 2004 with about 50,000 worth of equipment.
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