World Summit on Media for Children and Youth, Karlstad Sweden 2010
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THEMES AND STRANDS

The central theme for World Summit Karlstad 2010 is Challenges in young people’s world of communication. During the Summit week, these challenges will be defined, understood, faced and finally moved forward with during the closing ceremony Friday June 18, when the conclusions and recommendations on the challenges in young people's world of communication will be presented.


CHALLENGES IN YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORLD OF COMMUNICATION
This great area is divided into five strands with the following perspectives:

Communication for change
- How, from your perspective, can communication in different media support needed social change?

Children and young people’s education and development
- How can media literacy and educational media make a difference?

Children and young people’s digital content creation
- How can today’s and tomorrow’s media world gain quality from young people’s digital own media content creation?
- How can young children and youth of the world help improve global understanding when creating media content?
- From the core perspectives of equity, equality, inclusion and intercultural dialogue, what happens when young people are able to digitally create media content?

Economics, policies and law
- From a child and youth perspective, what measures and steps must be taken to meet the challenges of today’s media world?

Ethics and social responsibilities
- In a non-regulated global media world how, in your perspective, can quality in media for children and young people improve?



TOWARDS A NEW GLOBAL VISION
Download the outcomes from the Summit in Karlstad. As a final session summary, six key underlying themes were identified. Download to document here to read about the six themes, and the three challenges/recommendations. You can also download the document with all challenges and recommendations.
Final Session Summary (pdf)
Challenges and recommendations (pdf)



MINUTES FROM THE KEYNOTE SPEECHES
If you wish to have the minutes from each keynote speech, you can download them here as a pdf document.
Download the minutes (pdf)




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