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Youth and Politics in Technological Realm

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The previous years, 2024 and 2025has represented not just a trend, but a transformation where youth intersect with politics and technology.
Globally, youth are pioneering the ways in which change is made, organized, and maintained. Whether through an interconnected technology toolbox that leverages digital environments and climate technology to sustainably push their agenda, or in their capacity to collaborate on who defines the political future using social media platforms while acknowledging existing political structures, youth are stepping up- not as just as followers but as voices of resistance, innovation and evidence of increase hope

The Global Pulse

Within a Global Context,From Seoul to São Paulo, youth are emerging in a disruptive form of digital activism.
Platforms such as TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram serve as both space to share tradition and tools for identity transformation. Hashtag campaigns such as #ClimateStrike, #FreePalestine, #EndSARS, and #MeToo demonstrate how politically aware youth can no longer permit existing political institutions to respond to its moral and professional obligations.

In much of the West, AI-driven political engagement tools are offering young voters the opportunity to better understand policies, fact check candidates, and even try their hand at civic debate.
 In aspirational democratic states like India and the Philippines, youth influencers are bridging the gaps between pop culture and politics and making civic issues relevant to their audience members. 
Unfortunately, this digital power is not without its own threats—the tools of surveillance, digital disinformation, and internet shutdowns are still weapons of effective control leveraged to silence youth voices by some regimes.

Kenya's Digital Youth Upheaval 

Back in my home country, Kenya, 2025 has also signaled the digital space to become a battlefield for ideas, protests, and political mobilization. With a population more than 75% under 35, the youth are not just a demographic, they are the stage of political activism. From protests under the #RejectFinanceBill2025 to expanding resistance against systemic corruption and tribal politics, youth are challenging the status quo in X Spaces, podcasts, TikTok reels, and petitions.

Kenyan digital creators have taken on the role of modern griots—keeping record of truth, providing challenges to injustice, and reframing the narratives of political elites. As the government is attempting to clamp down on digital freedoms through sustained surveillance, predatory practices, and vague cyber laws, the fight to protect digital rights is not getting any easier.

The possibilities in the Tech-Political Environment

Technology has not only magnified youth voices; new forms for youth leadership are being created. Civic tech apps, blockchain voting experiments, and AI-driven policy simulators are being developed and operated throughout the continent. Youth-led groups are emerging and changing the face of political action to include data transparency, civic education, and accountability; examples such as Mzalendo, Siasa Place and Kenyans for Peace with 

Truth and Justice

Globally, platforms such as Pol.is - first used in Taiwan as a public opinion aggregator for policy - is an example of what's possible when technology is democratized. The quality of modern politics may depend on the capacity of youth to design, launch, and defend ethical technology systems, in support of human rights, and transparency.

Where to from here?

The year 2025 is a year of choice. All youth worldwide—and especially in Kenya—are currently at a digital crossroads. What path will you choose? Will you use technology for deeper democracy - or, will you fall for a trap of surveillance and digital manipulation? Will your voice start bouncing around the walls of policy chambers; or will it echo muted cries drowned in censorship?
But one thing is certain - today's youth will not simply wait to receive the future from your predecessors. Rather, they will build it, stream it, tweet it, march for it, and model it.
Finally, the world is watching. As civic space shrinks, authoritarianism rises, and digital war is fought, it's the courage, creativity, and clarity of youth that will reshape yesterday's politics. The revolution may not be televised—but it will be live-streamed. 
Location: Nairobi County, Kenya

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