What is the mission of your organization?
To inspire children to be creative, imaginative, innovative, cooperative and artistic.

What age, class, racial, religious, and ethnic groups do your organization work with?
8- to 12-year old children worldwide.

What are the main facilities, resources and services you make available to young people interested in working in media?
Our quarterly ChildArt magazine.

How would children and young people make contact with your organization?

Through email to childart@icaf.org

What made you originally want to start working with young people?

I was once a child artist.

How are young people using new technologies to help them gain access to public forums and be more effective media makers?
ChildArt magazine provides them a forum and we are developing an online forum as well.

What do you see as the obstacles young producers of media face in gaining access to television, film, video, and print?
No one encourages or invites them.

What's taking place today that is or will soon make access easier or harder for a greater number of young people?
The Internet will make access easier, but the digital divide will make it harder.

Do you believe there is bias in the dominant media toward young people and their interests and issues? What is it?
Children are not viewed as contributors to society.

How do you think the Internet and other technologies are influencing young media makers?
Positively.

What are your organizations success stories working with young media producers?
We have featured many creative talents in our ChildArt magazine.

What will be the most serious challenges facing young media journalists in the future?
Overload.

What do you think can be done to make young people more media literate?
National programs for this purpose.
 

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