THE FOUNDATION

The World Summit On Media For Children Foundation was established in 1999 to promote the World Summit movement. The Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit public company incorporated in Victoria, Australia.

The Foundation's objectives are to encourage and promote the World Summit movement, as well as select and assist host organisations for future World Summits.

The Foundation is led by its founder, Dr Patricia Edgar, and its Board of Directors. Foundation Patrons use their influence to support the Foundation.

Dr Patricia Edgar, AM – Chair
Dr Patricia Edgar AM. Founder and inaugural head of the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF). She was the architect of the Australian Children’s Television Standards and founder of the World Summit Movement, hosting the first World Summit on Media for Children in Melbourne in 1995. She is a teacher, researcher, producer, writer and experienced policy maker. Her programs have garnered more than 100 national and international awards. She is the author of 10 books, numerous articles and reports and widely recognized as an authority in the media field

Website www.patriciaedgaranddonedgar.com

Anna Home, OBE – Deputy Chair
Chief Executive, The Children’s Film and Television Foundation. Chair of The Second World Summit on Television for Children held in London, 1998 (www.thechildrensmediaconference.com, www.savekidstv.org.uk). Director, Producer and Executive Producer for BBC TV's Children's programmes for over two decades, she specialised in children's dramas. In 1986 she returned to the BBC as Head of Children's Television after helping setup TVS, and was responsible for more than 1,000 hours of programming, including 'Teletubbies'. She has been a member of the Councils of BAFTA and the RTS and chaired the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) Children's Group for many years. She is a trustee of The Prince of Wales Foundation for Children and the Arts ( CATA); Chair of Save Kid's TV (SKTV) and The Children's Media Conference (CMC) and a board member of The Unicorn Children's Theatre.

Adrian Mills - Deputy Chair
Adrian Mills, Chief Adviser BBC Children's and BBC Learning. Before returning to the BBC in 2009, Adrian was Chief Executive of LGT, Head of Children's for TVO and CBC Canada, and Chair of Summit 2000 - Children, Youth and Media Beyond the Millennium held in Toronto, Canada.

Adrian has over 20 years' leadership experience in education and broadcast media, responsible for the delivery of programmes on television, radio and online. He has commissioned, scheduled and produced programmes for adults and children for public service broadcasters in Canada and the UK. A dual British and Canadian citizen, he is a UNICEF International Emmy Award winner and sits on the board of the World Summit Foundation for Children and Media. He is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

Per Lundgren
Senior Media Advisor for the Nordic Council of Ministers in Copenhagen Denmark.
Director of The World Summit On Media for Children and Youth, Karlstad Sweden 2010.
Per studied International Relations in Sweden with a focus on developing countries. He has an M.A in Education from Greenwich University in London U.K. with focus on international project management. His studies include work with teachers in film, radio, television, theatre, journalism and advertising. He has written scripts for Swedish radio and television, articles for newspapers and media magazines, produced video and radio programs and written seven training books for media education in the Scandinavian countries. He lectures at Karlstad University in Media and Communication Studies.
His international experience over the past decade includes work with:
- United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UN AoC). He is a Member of the group of founders of UN AoC Media Literacy Education Online Clearinghouse;
- Council of Europe, Strasbourg on "Human Rights in the Information Society";
- Unicef - Havana International Film Festival Jury;
- Unesco - Member expert group for Unesco Media and Information Literacy Curriculum.

He was also Coordinator of the European Schoolnet Virtual School Media Department, www.eun.org, Media Literacy Expert for the European Commission, and Project Manager for the European Commission supported project Alliance for a Media Literate Europe, www.allmediaeurope.se (2002-2004)

2010 Summit Website www.wskarlstad2010.se

Personal contact email address: mediebok@hotmail.com

Dr Javad Mottaghi
is currently the Secretary-General of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU). He holds a Bs. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tehran Sharif University of Technology, Masters Degree in Management and is a PhD. Candidate in Management from the University of Teesside, England. He is also a member of the Board for the World Radio & Television Council (WRTVC) since 2001. Dr Mottaghi is currently Associate member of The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in New York and a member of The International Academy of Television and Radio in Russia since December 2002. With his vast experience in broadcasting over the past 30 years, Dr Javad Mottaghi has been specifically tasked by the Governing Council to implement the Institute's new Strategic Plan, formulated by a special task force, to propel the AIBD into the next millennium

Dr Mottaghi has 30 years of national and international experience in media/communication in the following areas: International Affairs, Media/Communication Development and Broadcasting, AV productions and co-production, ICTs, capacity building, networking, research, publications, negotiations, fund raising, news and programming for radio and television, social and cultural television programs and sports coverage.

Dr Mottaghi was awarded with the Elizabeth R Award for Exceptional Contribution to Public Service Broadcasting. The award was presented by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) during its General Assembly in Tonga on 11th February 2009.

E-mail: javad@abu.org.my

 

Patricia Castano
Founder Citurna Productions and Imaginario.

Patricia studied Social Science, in Colombia and Wales (UK) and Direction and Television Production at the BBC/ Open University and Elstree TV training centre. She has worked with the BBC as local producer for the series Made in Latin America. In 1986, with colleague Adelaida Trujillo she founded CITURNA PRODUCCIONES - a leading production house for children's and educational television as well as social, political and environmental documentaries in Colombia. Citurna's productions have been commissioned by European public TV, awarded international distinctions (those for children include INPUT, EMMY, IDFA, Prix Jeunesse and Prix Jeunesse Iberoamericano).Documentaries have been broadcast by more than 30 international channels.

From the mid 90s Citurna, developed local television series with the support of multimedia educational strategies, aimed at youth and children, the priority audiences which need to be addressed, to promote social change in Colombia and Latin America. In 1999, Patricia with other important professionals, created Imaginario, a multidisciplinary, non profit organization to promote the use of television and media for social change and development. Imaginario's activities include public debate, capacity building and influencing public policy; production, knowledge management and networking. Since 2000, Imaginario and Citurna have organized TV de Calidad, Colombia's annual international TV screening conference, which showcases the Prix Jeunesse Suitcase and INPUT and brings leading children's television experts and projects from all over the world.

Since 2004, Imaginario has led - with the support of UNICEF, the Prix Jeunesse Foundation, the National TV Comission and the First Lady's office - the Compromiso Nacional de Televisión de Calidad para la Infancia en Colombia - a national commitment to improve the quality of children?s television in Colombia. Patricia also presides over a voluntary organisation, Bibloamigos, friends of the Bogota public libraries (www.bibloamigos.org).

E-mail: patriciacastano@yahoo.com

Regina de Assis
EdD, Columbia University, EdM and CAS, Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA.
Former Brazilian Professor of Education, Secretary of Education to the City of Rio (1993/1996), Founder and President (2001-8) of MULTIRIO, The Municipal Multimedia Company connected to more than one thousand early childhood and elementary schools in Rio. As President of MULTIRIO Regina produced many award winning programs for television, and books for children, teachers and parents.
She was the Chairperson of the 4th World Summit for Children and Adolescents in Rio in 2004 in partnership with ANDI, the Brazilian National Agency for the Rights of Children, UNICEF, UNESCO , Midiativa and Cecip. The Rio Summit, under the theme "Media from All, Media for All", gathered 3000 media and education professionals and 150 adolescents representing the five continents. The two Charters of Rio, one produced by the professionals and the other by adolescents, summarized the main goals reached by the World Summit Movement in 2004. The Rio World Summit Documentary was produced by Regina and MULTIRIO's team.
Regina is a member of the group of founders of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations , UNAoC , Media Literacy Education Online Clearinghouse, a member of the Oversees Council for the European Observatory for Children´s Television (OETI) based in Barcelona, Spain . She has been a consultant for UNESCO and is Chairperson of the International Seminar on Audio Visual for Children and Adolescents in São Paulo, Brasil 2010.

Email for contact : rdeassis32@gmail.com

Blog HUMANO : www.humanobr.blogspot.com/

 

Ellen Ann Wartella, Ph.D.
The Al-Thani Professor of Communication, Professor of Psychology and Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Ellen is a leading scholar of the role of media in children's development and serves on a variety of national and international boards and committees on children's issues. She is co-principal investigator of the Children's Digital Media Center project funded by the National Science Foundation (2001-2011) and was co-principle investigator on the National TV Violence Study (1995-1998). She has published widely in communication and psychology journals on children's media issues. Ellen was Dean of the College of Communication at the University of Texas from 1993-2004 and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California-Riverside from 2004-2009. Before joining the faculty at Northwestern in March 2010 she was Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California-Riverside. Dr. Wartella currently serves on the Board of the World Summit Foundation, the Academic Advisory Board of the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, the advisory boards of the Rudd Center on Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity at Yale University and the Center on Media and Children's Health at Harvard University. She is a Trustee of Sesame Workshop and serves on the PBS Kids Advisory Board.

Email for contact : ellen-wartella@northwestern.edu

 

Freddy H. Tulung the Director-General of Information and Public Communication, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) Jakarta Indonesia.
Prior to taking up this appointment Freddy was the Chairperson for the Public Information Agency from 2009-2010. Prior positions held were
(2007-2009) : Acting Director General for Communication Infrastructure and Information Dissemination
(2006-2009) : Senior Advisor to the Minister of Communication and Information Technology for Economic and Partnership and Acting Inspector General of Ministry of Communication and Information Technology in 2007.
Freddy has extensive experience in development and budget planning in the communication and information sector.

 

Parni Hadi
was formerly the President-Director of Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) from 2005-2010. He was Secretary General of the Indonesian Journalists Association (1993-98) and Secretary General of Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies from1988-1991 (sponsored by UNESCO). He held senior positions at the Antara News Agency and in 1998 became its President-Director & Editor in Chief. He also served as Exec. Secretary of the Media Centre of the Non-Aligned Movement Summit, General Director/Chief Editor of 'Republika Daily' & Chairman of 'Tekad' Tabloid Editors Council. In the 90s, he was a member of the National Broadcasting Council (1988-1998) & the People's Consultative Assembly. Now he is active as publisher of "SwaraCinta" -the Voice of Love, run by Dompet Dhuafa, a Foundation he established in 1993, dedicated to help the poor.

 

Chris Lovell LLB, BA, LLM
National Managing Partner - Holding Redlich, Director - Clemenger Group Limited, Director - Victorian Rail Track Authority, Trustee - Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust, and Chair - Melbourne Community Foundation.