Since 2003 noncommercial organization "Youth Institute" (Ryazan, Russia) trains young men of 18-25 years in technologies of work with the information and decision-making. Within the limits of courses with young men experts in information literacy and social psychologists, teachers and library workers work. At seminars young men assort questions of quality of the information and its reliability, critical judgement and ethics of its use, access to the information and its transparency, laws of public relations and propagation.
In the course of training students analyze traditional and newest sources of the information, in particular the Web 2.0. Development by youth of technologies the Web 2.0 allows it to create the extensive, constantly growing information field. Today young men take active part in construction and filling of information channels which become referential for different social groups.
Recent events show that social networks influence level of civil activity of youth. On the other hand, the youth faces in social networks "adult" technologies of use of information for the purpose of a manipulation public opinion. It can lead to decrease in activity of youth in social networks for search of reliable information and acceptance of responsible elections. For this reason "Youth Institute" sees the purpose further advance of courses on training of youth of work with information in social networks for development of civil literacy, adoption of intelligent decisions and elections.