The World Summit and TMC

(left-right) Caroline and Jemma.

Jemma:

The Mighty Creatives (TMC) are always looking for new and exciting ways to engage with young people and to offer them opportunities to get involved. When I came across the World Summit on Media for Children and Youth I saw a potential for TMC to connect young people in the East Midlands with those around the globe plus a chance for us to explore media education and creativity.

Just to give you a bit of context here's some information about the summit:

World Summit on Media for Children and Youth
Karlstad, Sweden, June 14-18 2010.

"World Summits are held every three years and provide a forum for producers, broadcasters, regulators of media for children and other professionals and community leaders committed to the improvement of quality media for children." www.wskarlstad2010.se

There will be around 1500 people from 80 countries at this year's event including children and young people, who will be preparing for a new media 21st century.
It's an opportunity to network, to be a part of debates, to be interactive and be a part of workshops by sharing your ideas, experience and expertise.

Objectives

• To achieve a greater understanding of developments in children's media around the world
  
• To raise the status of children's media
  
• To draw to the attention of key players in broadcasting the importance of issues related to children
  
• To promote a charter of guiding principles in children's media
  
• To ensure the provision of programs for children will be guaranteed as the communications revolution proceeds
  
• To assist in the developing world to provide opportunities for quality children's media in the future
  

Background

The summit started in Melbourne, Australia in 1995 and has since travelled to London, Thessaloniki, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and now Scandinavia - Karlstad, Sweden.

The following is an extract from www.wsmcf.com - World Summit on Media for Children Foundation:

The world summit movement was initiated by Dr Patricia Edgar (founder of Australian Children's Television Foundation).

It was recognised that programming for children was changing and under threat. Children's programming could not remain a purely domestic issue or survive with the values and objectives that industry professionals believed should apply.

A global forum for the exploration of the issues was essential and World Summits were born.

World Summits are global conferences which provide a forum for the media industry, educators and other professionals committed to the improvement of media for children. They are hosted by independent groups and organisations which support the aims and objectives of the World Summit movement.