Couscous Global
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Couscous Global is a worldwide website community where young people from all over the world between the ages of 16 and 25 share their most personal issues, experiences and ideas through filmed debates.
Everybody can join in by making a profile. Record your response on a debate with your webcam, or ask a friend to film you and your friends during a debate. Then upload your film to Youtube and put it on our website. Participate through debate!
Couscous Global is a follow up to the Dutch award winning tv-series Couscous & Cola which recorded dynamic discussions between a group of kids in Amsterdam from diverse cultural backgrounds with their peers in Africa and America. After it was broadcast by Al Jazeera in 2007, we received emails from viewers world wide who recognized themselves in the debate and wanted to “chip in”.
This global attention inspired the start of the community website Couscous Global.
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MySpace is losing it visit http://www.lypo.org
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PRESS RELEASE Amsterdam, June 2009
MySpace banns LYPO application due to “spreading of hate and discrimination”
Developers Couscous Global and Driebit are astonished.
MySpace has banned the new application LYPO (Love Your Perfect Opposite) from it’s social network. Developers Couscous Global and Driebit are astonished by this decision. MySpace states that this application instigates “hate spreading and discrimination”
Couscous Global is an organization that addresses urgent social and societal topics in a confronting, yet, constructive manner through debate. Subjects that live among young people worldwide. Subjects that are their own and not the ones of journalists.
Couscous Global developed the LYPO application in cooperation with web development company Driebit; they will add it to several social networks later this week. LYPO stands for Love Your Perfect Opposite and it reverses a well known principle: it doesn’t bring users into contact with people that think the same but with people that think differently. After all, you learn the most about yourself and the world around you by going into debate with your opponent/opposite.
Friends on social networks mostly are people that think the same and live the same. You can find these people through the tags that are attached to your profile. Couscous Global did the opposite with LYPO by developing an anti-tag system. It’s a technological translation of the famous quote: “I wholeheartedly disagree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it with my heart and soul.”
Maartje Nevejan of Couscous Global about LYPO and MySpace banning the application: “The motions on www.lypo.org are confronting, of course, but you wouldn’t get a good debate if they weren’t. There is this reign of political correctness on social networks worldwide and we want to bring this up for discussion. We’re bored on the Internet when it comes to public debate. Isn’t it much more exciting to have a discussion with someone that doesn’t agree with you? This bann by MySpace is incomprehensible. We don’t want to spread hate or discriminate, we want opposites to change ideas.”
HELP US SPREAD THE WORD, DOWNLOAD THIS APP FROM LYPO.ORG AND INSTALL IT ON YOUR PROFILE!
Sites: www.lypo.org, www.couscousglobal.com, www.driebit.nl
For more press information please email us at couscousglobal@gmail.com
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RT please! Press release: MySpace rejects new app by Couscous Global and Driebit: http://tr.im/noj6
about 2 hours ago from web
