Real Talk with Youth4Youth: Look.Up Live Summit 2020

The Youth 4 Youth Summit was designed to sound the alarm and raise awareness by youth for youth about the promise, perils and human impact of social networking platforms, an issue which the film, The Social Dilemma, amplifies.

Action Areas-

1. Mental Health: How social media platforms are fueling mental health decline and what youth are doing about it

2. ​Advocacy and Regulation: What young people can do to change public policy

3. ​Tech Design and Ethics: How GenZ is applying an ethical lens to tech design and business models

4. ​Truth: Youth solutions that address how misinformation and false identities are shaping society

5. Tech for Good: How youth use technology in ways that positively impact society and relationships

This youth-led event featured the voices, solutions, and actions of youth leaders who are already stepping up to shift social norms away from hyper-connectivity to greater tech-life balance - while sparking a movement to reset tech - as stated by The Social Dilemma for "the interest of people, not profits."

Learn more about the impact of LookUp.Live

”Young people are succumbing to the pressure of digital overload, 24/7 connectivity, and social media, which is fueling alarming rates of anxiety, depression, loneliness, and suicide.

LookUp.Live provides opportunities for youth to develop healthy relationships with technology and reverse the negative effects of living in a digital age by facilitating the discovery, development, and advancement of youth-led solutions.

Instead of having adults solve a problem they haven’t lived through, let’s get right to the source: by listening to Millennials and Gen Z, using personal experience as fuel for real change.

• LookUp.Live funds youth-led innovations aimed at solving some of today’s toughest problems: burnout, depression, lack of focus, lack of genuine connection, and insomnia among many other problems— all accelerated by our new world of technology and 24/7 connectivity.

• LookUp.Live empowers young people using the greater school system and youth-based organizations to disseminate relevant information relating to tech-life balance and maintaining a healthy relationship with technology.

• LookUp.Live challenges and inspires readers with science-backed tips and tricks for managing technology, suggesting small steps that add up to make a huge difference.

• LookUp.Live listens to young people to continue growing and adapting as an organization aiming to solve the myriad of problems caused by tech overload.”