Ignore the politics in this article and look at how ASEAN is struggling to bring youth from different countries together.
Dr. Madanmohan Rao's social media concept seems like a good one, and along the lines of my own ideas for a youth news network.
The Enterprise gets social: "Enter Hearsay with a social media management platform it says makes Facebook far more palatable to IT with compliance and management features lacking in other services. The new Hearsay Social also provides full integration with the LinkedIn API."