Main mailing list

The Rio+20 Youthspace e-mail list is the main e-mail list. This is a group for youth from all over the world to share information and discuss about the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Please join this list to get all the updates, information sharing and general discussion. Posting is moderated.

Facilitation team

The Rio+20 Facilitation Team: list for collaborators. This is a group for youth from all over the world who have the time, capacity and commitment to actively collaborate in the preparations for the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Membership is moderated.Please only join this list if you have a few hours a week to spare to follow up tasks.

3 working groups

The Communications Working Group: this working group deals with all the communications issues.

The Mobilisation Working Group: this working group covers the more grassroots and/or large scale and/or project based and/or campaigning and/or creative actions that young people are taking. Both inside and outside the conference centre in Ri

The Children Working Group: this working group tries to improve the participation of Children.

3 policy task forces

Task Force on the Green Economy: this group works on Green Economy in the Framework of Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication (GESDPE)

Task Force on Governance: this group works on the Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development (IFSD)

Task Force on Objectives: this groups works on the 3 objectives of Rio+20s, namely to secure renewed political commitments, assess progress up to date and implementation gaps and to address new and emerging challenges

GUIDELINES

To enable us to communicate effectively as an international community, we will periodically share these simple guidelines on the purpose and use of this mailing list.

We welcome good and active discussion and information sharing, recognising that when we are not physically present together at CSD meetings, or other meetings, this email list is the only mechanism that we have to communicate and share internationally, and to plan together. Therefore, we want it to be interesting and useful for all who are subscribed!

There is active moderation on this list, to ensure that spam is kept out, that all emails are relevant, interesting and useful, and that we don't get overloaded inboxes.

What we want on this list

• Emails relevant to youth participation and strategy, in and around the CSD process and at CSD sessions
• Information and questions about Youth Caucus activities, structure and governance
• Information and questions about youth initiatives happening in your country that relate to the CSD - for sharing ideas and best practices across the global youth community
• Relevant news and intelligence (e.g. about countries positions within the CSD negotiations)
• Report-backs from relevant meetings
• Proposals and ideas for youth action, policy and/or governance.
• Call-outs for volunteers/involvement - if you have an idea or proposal that is relevant to all youth, but which requires further development, then ask for interested volunteers to reply to you or to join an appropriate separate email list. Develop your idea in that smaller group, then bring your proposal back to the Youth Caucus for decision-making.

What is more suitable for other lists

• Trivial discussions about things like 'the colour of a t-shirt' or a slogan. Instead, these discussions should occur in a smaller group of interested people, who will announce their final decision (with its rationale)
• Logistics and day-to-day emails relevant to CSD sessions. Those discussions should instead take place on the mailing list of specific CSD sessions
• Emails about youth movement activities that are not related to the CSD

Tips for better e-mailing

• Too much mail? Change your setting here.
• Do not send personal replies to the list.
• Subject lines: Use tags (see below) and an accurate, brief description. When replying to a message, do not change the subject line of the email, unless it is a new topic.
• Only one topic per email. Two topics? Send two emails.
• History: Access all archived messages here.
• Translation: for Gmail users: http://mail.google.com/mail/#settings/labs scroll to "Message translation", click "Enable" ---> "Save Changes". An option to translate will appear in all messages. Set your native language here: http://mail.google.com/mail/#settings
• For long emails, provide a short summary of the content in the first lines.
• Lots of discussion on a thread you're not interested in? “Turning off” an annoying trend: In gmail, you can 'Mute' that thread.

We look forward to reviving this list as a place for exciting discussion, exchange, and international connection for youth surrounding the CSD process.

Your feedback on how to improve these moderation guidelines is welcomed.