How Telenor is using technology for world peace along with the Nobel Peace Centre

Technologies have for quite some time been used as tools for violence, from clubs and swords to bombs and missiles. In less obvious way, technologies are crucial to making or keeping up peace in a society.

So what can we affect with technology that would have some bearing on the likelihood or severity of suffering around the world? We discover a clue in past approaches to deal with this problem, which have frequently included grass-roots community association. That association was then used to exert political influence (e.g. in against war dissents), and to grow direct action community-based responses to local deficiencies and problems (soup kitchens for the poor). The intriguing thing to note here is that centralized institutions like governments have often added to suffering by triggering wars and neglecting to perceive local resource needs… and at the same time these institutions are being undermined by late technological developments.

World Peace might sound like a utopia but it’s not a far thought when the corporations of today are fighting to establish peace. Telenor is kickstarting a new age where companies and innovations will pull off the challenge to establish peace.

How?

Telenor Youth Forum (TYF) is a program run by Telenor Group and the Nobel Peace Center, with the aim to empower youth to solve social issues through technology.

Twenty-six talented millennials from Telenor’s 13 markets are selected from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants to represent their countries in the fourth annual Telenor Youth Forum (TYF) and 2016 Nobel Peace Prize activities.

The one-year TYF program begins in Oslo, Dec. 8 – 11, during Nobel Peace Prize week. The selected delegates will take part in events related to honoring the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, in addition to working in teams to design solutions to major social challenges.

Last year, Jimmy Wales, founder of wikipedia was the mentor for TYF delegates