Following the summit, children will be matched with mentors from industry, government, and education who will help them launch local action projects to share the benefits and continue the momentum of the summit. A better world One topic on the table will be a proposal by five alumni of the first Junior Summit to start Nation.1 - a virtual nation for children, with its own voice, flag, and currency, but without borders or centralized government. This nation would apply for membership to the UN and make every effort to include children from developing nations. Adults need kids, they just don't realize it. They can't relate to what kids have to offer, because they don't understand technology the way kids do.
Kids have valuable perspectives, but the world offers no mechanism to voice their opinions.
They have no representation in world politics and they have no influence in the decisions that govern their future. So with the help of the second Junior Summit, a group of young, very wired individuals is going to bend, twist, and distort some barriers with the hope those barriers will come undone. Nation.1 is just beginning, and we are considering how to create digital political systems, how to deal with language barriers, how the technology behind the country will work. We passionately believe it's worth it, because uniting kids changes their perspective, widens their understanding, and leads to a better world. Proposals like Nation.1 may seem outrageous, even unthinkable, compared with what we adults would have suggested.