JO -8 NOTE TO MR. RIZA EXECUTIVE OFFiCE United Nations World Television Forum For your information, please find attached the latest version of the draft programme for the World Television Forum. Mian Qadrud-Din 8 November 1999 cc: Mr. S. Tharoor 0 UNITED ^ NATIONS .WORLD TELEVISION i FORUM , Mirror or Map? The Impact of Television on Peace and Development 18 -19 November 1999 For further information contact [email protected] or call (212) 963-2339 UN Web site: www.un.org/av/tvforum99 Web site created by Sponsoring Partners: www.tvforum.org ref:A24y8-11-99 UNITED NATIONS WORLD TELEVISION FORUM Television contributes to shaping the social, political and economic forces that animate human affairs. These same forces in turn shape television content, even as rapidly expanding channel capacity has begun to outpace the creation of new programming. The 1999 United Nations World Television Forum is a rare opportunity for television executives and professionals from every region of the globe to talk about the future of program content — the industry's most valuable resource as it navigates the overlapping challenges of new delivery, changing ownership, increased competition and convergence. With everything possible and very little a certainty, how will the global television community balance reinventing itself with the expansion of its role in connection with the central mission of the United Nations . .. the peace and development of the human family? Workshops form the core of this year's World Television Forum and, drawing from the Forum's overall theme, will explore three broad sub-themes: • news and current affairs programming • educational programming, both formal and informal • the role of television in development There will be two workshops in each of these streams for a total of six workshops. When pre-registering, participants are encouraged to choose a stream and attend both workshops under that heading, although the option exists to choose workshops in another stream depending upon availability of space. There will also be two breakfast workshops that will deal with trade regulations and broadcast access to international sporting events. Workshops will have a panel of industry executives, programmers, communications experts, policy makers or advocacy representatives — depending on the subject — who come from every region of the world. Several workshops will begin with a video presentation to introduce the topic. Skilled facilitators will ensure a lively and unscripted interaction between workshop presenters and participants. UNITED NATIONS WORLD TELEVISION FORUM Organized by: United Nations Department of Public Information • With, the support of: Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations • Sponsoring Partners: Radiotelevisione Italiana - RAI Mediaset Group World Broadcasting Unions-WBU : Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union -ABU Asociacion Internacional de Radiodifusion - AIR Arab States Broadcasting Union - ASBU Caribbean Broadcasting Union- CBU European Broadcasting Union - EBU North American Broadcasters Association - NASA Organizacion de la Television Iberoamericana — OTI Union des radiodiffusions et televisions nationales d'Afrique - URTNA International Council of National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences - NAT AS Nippon Hoso Kyokai - NHK Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Organisation Europeenne de Telecommunications par Satellite - EUTELSAT • Co-sponsors: TV5 - le monde en frangais Tiirkiye Gazetsei Radyo ve Televizyon - TGRT AGENDA United Nations Headquarters, New York City j Wednesday 17 November j 5:oo-9:oo p.m. Registration 6:00- 8:00 p.m. Reception in the Delegate's Dining Room UNITED NATIONS WORLD TELEVISION FORUM Thursday 18 November 8:00 a.m. Registration 1 0:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Plenary Welcoming Remarks Kensaku Hogen United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Opening Statements Theo-Ben Gurirab President of the United Nations General Assembly Salvatore Cardinale Minister of Communication, Government of Italy KEYNOTE EVENT: A Dialogue With Secretary-General Kofi Annan "Television and the United Nations" Kofi Annan Secretary-General of the United Nations Tom Brokaw Anchor and Managing Editor, NBC Nightly News / USA Jean-Pierre Elkabbach Europe 1 / France Charlayne Hunter-Gault Johannesburg Bureau Chief, CNN / USA Remarks by Representatives of Sponsoring Partners Roberto Zaccaria Chairman, Radiotelevisione Italiana - RAI Fedele Confalonieri Chairman, Mediaset Albert Scharf Robert Ottenhoff World Broadcasting Unions - WBU Ahmet Oren TGRT Turkey, on behalf of International Council of National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences - NATAS Nippon Hoso Kyokai - NHK Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Giuliano Berretta Director General, Organisation Europeenne de Telecommunications par Satellite - EUTELSAT - 3:00 p.m. Lunch in the Delegates' Dining Room 3:00-6:00 p.m. Parallel Workshops: NEWS EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT Setting the Agenda Television as Tutor Communication for Television News as Stakeholder From Distance Learning Social Change not Spectator to Edutainment Social Responsibility and the Role of Television News programming is widely The television and education perceived to be the most real, sectors have had a long-term Since its inception just over 50 impartial and balanced of relationship with many successful years ago, television has been used television content; in reality initiatives to show for it and with to deliver social marketing television news has always had an varying degrees of participation by messages and cause related inescapable point of view. international organizations. In advertising aimed at influencing Whether the story is a various regions of the world, individual and societal behavior. humanitarian emergency, a colleges and universities have There is now a growing movement violation of human rights or the linked with television stations to that goes beyond this 'product' breakout of peace, there is a deliver on-air course instruction to approach to focus on finding symbiotic relationship between facilitate distance learning. In effective ways to use the full range television news and the events it some places television in the of media, including television, to covers. This relationship has come classroom has been a positive make a greater contribution to the under greater scrutiny in recent influence. There are many pace of development in every years with the rapid expansion of examples of general television region of the world. Central to this news and current affairs programs that educate, and now approach is the notion that programming and the emergence many specialty or thematic communication must be a full of all news channels. The role of channels dedicated entirely to partner in development, not an television news as a participant specific topics. Access to audio- add-on or a public relations tool. and not just a neutral lens is visual archives as a resource for The panel will look at the role of further complicated as the twin educational programming is television as an integral part of the forces of new technology and becoming a specialized field in process of development, along convergence are blurring the once itself. Panelists will discuss these with the implications for control clear demarcations between and other special challenges of the message and the medium. television, publishing and facing educational television. Yue-Sai Kan (moderator) telecommunications. Francoise Bertrand (moderator) Producer and Host, China Central TV - CCTV / China Bob Collins (moderator) Chairman, Canadian Radio-television Director General, Radio Telefis and Telecommunications Commission Michele Fortin Eireann - RTE / Ireland - CRTC / Canada Vice President - Television, Societe Radio Canada / Canada Rena Golden William Baker Vice President, CNN International / President, Thirteen/WNET/US/1 Mark Malloch Brown USA Jerome Clement Administrator, United Nations Development Programme - UNDP Yoshinori Imai President - Director General, La / United Kingdom Executive Commentator/Presenter, Cinquieme /France Nippon Hoso Kyokai - NHK/ Japan Arduino Patacchini Abdul W. Khan Head of Commercial Planning and Hamdy Kandil Vice-Chancellor, Indira Gandhi Development Division, EUTELSAT / Producer and Presenter, Current National Open University /India France Affairs Programmes, Egypt Radio & Television Union - ERTU /Egypt Heung-Soo Park Albert Scharf President, Educational Broadcasting President, European Broadcasting Eladio Larez System - EBS /Republic of Korea Union - EBU and Director-General, President, Radio Caracas Television - Bavarian Broadcasting / Germany RCTV/Venezue/a Mario Sesti Cinema Division, Mediaset//fa/y Jean Stock John Ruggie President, TVS le monde en frangais / Special Adviser to the United Nations Don Wear France Secretary-General / USA President, Discovery Channel International /USA Mikhail Shvydkoi Director General, Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company / Russia Friday 19 November 8:00 ..m. Registration 8:00 - 9:30 a.m. Parallel Breakfast Workshops: Advance registration required. Limit 100 participants per session. Both will be workshop format with a moderator, speakers and an opportunity for open discussion. TRADE Crossing the Line Trade Regulation as Television Goes Cross-border As telecommunications has become more complex, so too has the international regulatory environment that affects the television sector. Panelists will consider the impact on television programming of the World Trade