The 7th World Summit on Media for Children takes place from 8 to 10 September
in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where over 2000 media leaders will gather to work
towards better quality media for young people.
Organised by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) as well as the World
Summit on Media for Children Foundation, and hosted by Radio Television
Malaysia (RTM), the summit aims to “achieve a greater understanding of
developments in children’s media around the world and to raise the status of
children’s programming and draw to the attention of key people in production
and distribution the importance of issues relating to children and young people,’
according to the event website.
The summit will provide networking opportunities, debates and workshops on
content creation in this sector aimed at producers, broadcasters, media
regulators, content creators, educators, policy makers, digital media creators
and those working in the field of childhood development.
Pre-summit workshop events taking place on 8 September include:
• Strong Stories for Strong Children (invitation only)
• Writing Appealing Educational Program Proposals for Television
• Working with Kids (invitation only)
• Children’s Media at the Core of Public Service Media in a Multiplatform
Era
• Social Media: Advent of a New Playground
• An In-Depth Case Study: From a TV documentary to Feature Animation
Films
• Children’s Rights and Media
Visit the World Summit on Media for
Children website for more information.
