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Who will host the 2017 World Summit on Media For Children?

After last year's Summit success, the time has come to think about the next one

World Summit logoAnna Home, CMF Chair reports.

The World Summit on Media for Children Foundation (Chair Dr Patricia Edgar) has called for tenders to host the next World Summit on Media for Children in 2017.

The summit is a triennial event, which was inaugurated in Melbourne in 1995. Since then, Summits have been held on every continent. In Melbourne 1995, London 1998, Thessaloniki 2001, Rio de Janeiro 2004, Johannesburg 2007, Karlstad 2010 and most recently in Kuala Lumpur in 2014. This was attended by over 1000 delegates.

Submissions will close on April 30th 2015. Further details can be found on the Summit Foundation’s website.

You can read about 2014’s World Summit in David Kleeman’s article, We’re gonna need a bigger bridge!

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