By Emmanuel Asuquo

The management of Media Advocacy and Development Initiative (MADinitiative) in partnership with Daar communications Plc and arrays of other media institutions is putting together a National Children and Young People’s Media Summit (NCYPMS) to be held in Lagos from August 1-9, 2014 with the theme “Let’s Go Live”.

The summit which started in 2013 in Abuja has become an annual event and is expected to draw participants between the ages of 10-25 within and outside the country.

The summit according to the organizers is, amongst other things, to give practical training on how the media operates for young people who have passion for media from childhood, Prepare the next generation of Media Icons, take young people from passive media participants to active media participants and give young people the power to create and control what the media produce.

During the nine days training, participants will be exposed to training in areas of TV/Radio Presentation and Production, Photography, Video Editing, Cinematography, Animation, Graphics Design, Blog and Web-streaming and Writing.

“Participants would be given the platform to showcase their creativity while participants below the age of 18 would be given opportunity to present programs on TV and Radio during the 2015 International Children’s Day of Broadcasting; by the end of the summit, the participants would have had basic experience on how different media operates and they would be expected to develop their own media content which will be aired by our media partners”, a statement from MADinitiative reads.