The WUF3 Secretariat/GLOBE Foundation is not responsible for the accuracy of the content on the individual networking events pages. For more information on specific sessions, please contact the respective networking event hosts using the link below.

Event information

Title Slum Diaries: Participatory Media Creation for Social Change Day / Time Thursday, June 22nd / 13:30 - 15:30 Room Oceanview 3/4 Event Description This brings together slum dwellers, filmmakers, potential funders and broadcasters to discuss participatory media creation for social change. An overview will be presented of models and needs for such projects. The long-term aim of the organizers is to work collaboratively in presenting a global survey of life in the informal settlements of the world's mega-cities through the voices of the slum dwellers themselves. Session Language English French Speakers (information as provided by host organization) Al Jazeera International's Peggy Holter; Filmmaker Nettie Wild; Slum Dwellers International Homeless Nation's Daniel Cross & Brett Gaylor; MYSA Children's project (Kenya); SEWA (India); Serendip Productions (Pakistan), Communicating for Change (Nigeria)   Contact Need more information about this event? Please fill the contact form Related Documents (in English and / or French) Host Organization Television Trust for the Environment/ National Film Board of Canada Host Organization Description Television Trust for the Environment (TVE) is a Media NGO that works with partners worldwide, particularly in the developing world, to produce films that raise awareness of issues such as globalization, poverty and social development, human rights and the environment. TVE films are shown by global and national broadcasters (including the UK and Europe) and are distributed internationally for television and educational use. In 2004, TVE made or commissioned more than 80 films and reached more than 300 million households, almost every week of the year. Founded in 1939, the National Film Board of Canada has produced more than 11,000 films and other audiovisual works and won more than 4,500 awards - including 11 Oscars®. As Canada's public film producer, the NFB produces and distributes distinctive, culturally diverse, challenging and relevant audiovisual works that provide Canada and the world with a unique Canadian perspective. Named one of the top documentary organizations in the world by realscreen magazine, the NFB is equally renowned for its auteur animation - with this year marking the 65th anniversary of cutting-edge animated filmmaking from the National Film Board. UN-HABITAT is the United Nations’ lead agency for human settlement issues. It is directly responsible for helping governments to implement the Habitat Agenda, which was signed by 171 countries at the Second UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) in Istanbul in 1996. The agency also helps governments achieve the Millennium Development Goal 7: Target 11, which is aimed at improving the living conditions of slum dwellers. As part of this initiative, UN-HABITAT encourages filmmakers, journalists and media practitioners to highlight the problems and living conditions of the urban poor. Website (Organizer and partners) www.tve.org www.nfb.ca www.unhabitat.org www.tve.org www.nfb.ca

Back to Events Page