Category: Event Reports
Safer internet Day UK – 2023
February 28, 2023 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
Safer Internet Day began as an initiative of the EU SafeBorders project in 2004, and was taken up by the Insafe Network in 2005. It is now celebrated in approximately 170 countries. In the UK, Safer Internet Day is coordinated by the UK Safer Internet Centre (a partnership between Childnet International, Internet Watch Foundation and […]
APPG Meets the PSBs
December 10, 2022 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) APPG information, CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
CMF acts as the “clerk” to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Children’s Media and the Arts, which we co-founded with Action for Children’s Arts over ten years ago. An APPG is a cross-party grouping of MPs and peers interested in a particular issue or set of issues – who want to hear the latest […]
Fun and Games: Exploring Respect and Relationships on Safer Internet Day
February 20, 2022 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
Tuesday 8 February 2022 was Safer Internet Day. CMF Exec Group member Cecilia Weiss attended the core event Safer Internet Day first started as an initiative of the EU Safe Borders project in 2004. It’s now held across 200 countries. In the UK, Safer Internet Day is coordinated by the UK Safer Internet Centre, made […]
Online Good?
May 16, 2021 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
CMF Director Greg Childs contributed to the Lego Group’s recent industry stakeholder research into children and technology. On April 28th 2021 he attended a roundtable to hear the results. Lego commissioned BritainThinks to research key stakeholder views about the current relationship between children and technology, focusing in particular on: The benefits and harms […]
Safer Internet Day: Tuesday 9 February 2021
February 24, 2021 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
CMF Exec Group member Cecilia Weiss attended Safer Internet Day (UK). “Around 500 guests attended Safer Internet Day. I was invited on behalf of the Children’s Media Foundation. Here’s my summarised report of the event.” Safer Internet Day was presented by Jake Humphrey from the BT Tower with virtual contributors from the industry, government and […]
Creativity Is Magic And Magic Is For Everyone
November 26, 2020 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
By Cressida Cowell Children’s Author and Waterstone’s Children’s Laureate I have spent twenty years writing for children, and over those twenty years I have lost count of the times people have asked me, ‘Have you ever thought of writing for adults?’ as if writing for children was some sort of second best activity, […]
Small Screen Big Debate
October 29, 2020 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
Small Screen, Big Debate By Jayne Kirkham, Writer, Clerk to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Children’s Media and the Arts, and CMF Board Member Small Screen: Big Debate 2020, Ofcom’s virtual conference on Public Service Broadcasting, ran across three days of pre-recorded panel discussions and interviews, plus a live debate, during which Ofcom […]
Question Time at CMC 2020
July 30, 2020 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
By Nikki Stearman Senior Games Designer, Dubit and CMF Executive Group Member for Events I was honoured to produce the Children’s Media Conference Question Time this year with the support of Executive Producer Anna Home, Chair of the Children’s Media Foundation, ‘Right Now and What’s Next?’ explored the strategic questions around kids and content and […]
Reflections on Inclusivity at CMC 2020 On-Line
July 28, 2020 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
By Olivia Dickinson Digital Consultant and CMF Executive Group Member for Diversity and Inclusion This year’s CMC gave us an amazing opportunity to create content that gives you concrete, practical actions and takeaways. Every one of the contributors in the 9 films that make up Inclusivity Now tells you at least one practical thing you […]
When Sheffield Comes To You
July 28, 2020 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
By Jane Kirkham Clerk to the All Party Parliamentary Group CMF Executive Group Member for political and governmental liaison. Maybe I don’t get out enough but I love going to Sheffield. The annual bunfight that is the Children’s Media Conference – I look forward to it all year. OK, I don’t get out much but then […]