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Young people and local politicians are using their mobiles to help change attitudes and share lives
Robert Bullard
Wednesday July 19, 2006
Five young people and five councillors in Norfolk have used their mobile phones in an effort to engage more young people in the region’s democratic process. They have taken photos that illustrate their everyday lives and shared them online (www.norfolklifeswap.org.uk).
Vivienne Clifford-Jackson, Liberal Democrat leader of South Norfolk district council, says using mobile phones offered the district council and Norfolk county council, which is also taking part, a way to reach out to young people using a method and language that they were used to. “We tend to think of young people as just a nuisance, and where crime comes from,” she says.
