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Today we are in Manchester, at the

Children's Global Media Summit, a

meeting of those who make the

content that our children will be

watching in the coming years. It is

an event with some very important

speakers.

Parents, like Catherine

and me, are raising the first

generation of digitally immersed

children. And that gives us many

reasons to be optimistic about the

impact of technology on childhood.

And before the Duke of Cambridge

gave his speech to the audience, I

managed to grab a quick interview

with one of the most talked about

couples in the country. How are you

finding the conference so far?

Because, to be honest, my kids get

more about the staff of the third

Test a hotel than at the Palace that

the behind the scenes. This will

shape the kind of content that

children will watch in the future

and how content providers will meet

the expectations of the next

generation of viewers. Forget the

generation X, generation Y, and

generation Z, you are all over the

hill, we are now talking about

Generation U, the unlimited

generation. Today's children will

grow up expecting unlimited access

to information and entertainment on

demand. The big names are here

seeking to educate by taking classes

on virtual field trips. Under the

water in a coral reef. If you want

to know what children are up to, why

not ask them? Kids split was inside

runs anonymous questionnaires for

400 kids every week to gather data

about the latest trends, hottest new

characters, and online habits.

Because it is not all about what

kids need, there is a big industry

that wants to make money here and

target those young minds with

messages and merchandise.

We do find

surprising the amount of children

that are viewing YouTube without any

parental guidance or oversight. We

find it is probably about one third,

maybe less than one third of under

tens who are not having their Perras

monitor what they are watching on

YouTube.

It is quite shocking. That

is also if India. How to protect

children from harmful content and

stop them being exploited by the

increasingly personal, interactive,

and immersive technology is that

they are using.

I believe strongly

in the positive power of technology,

but I'm afraid I find the situation

alarming. Meyler does not come from

childhood immersion in technology,

per se, my Al Ahram comes from the

fact that so many parents have added

your make up the rules as they go

along -- my alarm. We have the most

powerful information technology in

human history into the hands of our

children. Yet we do not yet

understand its impact on adults, let

alone at the very young.

It is a

massive concern for many parents,

but there are moves to try and make

children more savvy about online

safety. As Lara Lewington found out

when she went back to school.

The opportunity for kids to access

information and learn has never been

bigger. But with that comes a

challenge. The threats online are

clear to see. But an increasing

number of children are becoming

aware of the dangers and how to

steer clear.

Never click on a link

in an e-mail unless you are

absolutely sure who it is from.

Basically, these are how many

attackers are coming in because the

firewall is off.

This week an

investigation into paedophiles using

live streaming apps led to nearly

200 arrests, including... Including

teachers, medics, and law enforcers.

A batch of leading brands are

suspended advertising from YouTube

after suspect comments remained

beside videos featuring children.

This is not long after the site hit

the headlines when its algorithm --

algorithms were found to be pulling

inappropriate content into its kids

out, which was then viewed by

children. Of course the company says

it does all they can. Age

restricting content in the main app

as well is aiming to protect those

using YouTube kids altogether. In

light of the most recent issues, it

is also adding an extra 10,000

moderators to act alongside the

software aiming to keep kids safe.

But with such a wealth of

information out there, who can

actually be held accountable for

what is published?

First and

foremost the tech companies

themselves need to be held

accountable. And I mean at the CEO

level. All of these platforms have

an enormous responsibility to the

kids and families in their audience,

because they are making billions of

dollars of them. Second, we also

need to see some kind of regulation

that off, or others could provide

that would say this is appropriate

or not on these platforms. Because

if you think the tech companies will

self regulate, then you are kidding

yourself. Parents have a huge role

to play. It is not so much that you

can say it is the industry's

problem, but as a parent you need to

educate yourself. This is the same

as teaching your kids how to walk

across the street and not get hit by

a car. And this is really the what

they are living in.

But at the same

time the benefits of this sort of

online access can't be ignored.

Hirak this central London school,

pupils are taking part in Idea, the

digital and enterprise version of

The Duke of Edinburgh Award. What

are you up to? The challenges are

open and free to all ages to provide

realise skills will stop and they

can be done anywhere, any time. The

pupils here at Westminster Academy

are covering a range of subjects,

including creating virtual reality,

the importance of colour in

photography...

It is the different

types of Carlisle. -- colours. You

would reduce the hue and saturation.

As well are some of the more serious

issues surrounding safety online.

What are the main things you feel

you have come away from the server

having learned?

For all my devices

use either the same password. If the

hackers new one of my passwords they

would be able to get anything. So I

learned that and I tried to change

my password is everything, even the

school website. So I am just going

to carry on with the badge.

Are

there any negatives you feel from

the fact that everything is out

there and available?

You just have

to be careful of false news. There

are always these clickbait articles

that pop up. I have realised it does

not really sound right.

It is a new

problem, really, the fake news

issue. How do you see this will play

out in the future? With you always

be a bit wary when you resubmit as

to whether it is true or not?

Undoubtably. At that is one massive

advantage of having it. We have

become more critical as a society.

We are less likely to be

susceptible.

It is not just about

whether or not you have done GCSE

computer science, it is about can

you actually manipulate or apply the

knowledge? So what we're to do, and

do it in such a way that they have

the opportunity of learning at

themselves, was at the centre making

them aware of the dangers and

pitfalls that we'll see -- while at

the same time.

Over 100,000 of these

bronze awards have been achieved.

The silver to be released next

April. And in a world where fake

news has dominated the headlines,

targeting us on what to think or

buy, there will be a category called

critical thinking, focusing on just

that. It will teach the importance

of how to substantiate, verify, and

trust sources. And at the children's

global media Summit, the BBC also

announced a scheme teaching how to

avoid fake news. Up to 1000

secondary schools and sixth forms in

UK will take part, with mentoring in

how to sift out fact from fiction.

But the real news right now is that

while there may still be a way to go

for things to be totally safe

online, kids are becoming more aware

and maybe at some point soon will be

the ones educating the grown-ups.

You see, it is...

How can you see,

it is so small.

Yes, I have finished

the badge.

How are you feeling?

This year marks ten years since

Kenyans started using mobile money,

that has transformed the lives of

millions of people, allowing access

to financial transaction services in

even the most remote parts of the

country. Mobile money is linked to

your phone number and allows those

without a bank account and make

payments via text message. Even if

poorest can top up as little as ten

shillings, that is the equivalent of

ten US cents. What has been

interesting is the infrastructure

and services that have developed off

the back of is mobile money

payments. Kate Russell went to the

slums of Nairobi to meet a young

family who are benefiting from the

latest feature to be linked to the

platform. Almost half of Nairobi's 6

million people living in slums.

There existed a daily grind to put

food and even water on the table. --

their existence. The vast majority

of Kenyans don't have any health

insurance. And in areas like this,

or where the poorest are often

overlooked in society live, finding

enough money to pay for basic

healthcare can fall pretty low on

the list of priorities. Susan lives

in this slum, the whole family,

including four kids, sharing a

single room. Despite this trouble,

she has made a commitment to save

money for her baby's healthcare

using electronic wallet M-Pesa.

TRANSLATION:

Windy day for me to go

to the clinic came, I had managed to

save 210 shillings. I was able to

use that for my treatment. I chipped

my account balance and found that it

was taking care of by a Bonas out of

my savings. The money remained in

intact. I was motivated to save more

and more and saving up for my

maternity fee.

The service runs on a

M-Pesa. It encourages people to save

by offering Bonas credit for savings

and ring-fencing funds to be spent

only on healthcare services from one

of the country's 6000 registered

clinics -- Bonas credit.

We have

seen the numbers of people not

affording to pay for healthcare

going down, because we encourage

them to users. We see about 500 kids

in a month. That is compared to

about 100 children a month we were

seeing.

Previously when they got

sick what did they do?

You would

see, most of them, they would

probably use a self-medication or

some of them are just wait until it

is too late. When they go to the

hospital probably the condition has

gone so far away.

Susan's

sister-in-law works as a hairdresser

in the city. She wanted to help out

with the new baby's medical

expenses. And M-TIBA allowed her to

transfer money from her own three

wallet.

TRANSLATION:

We chose M-TIBA because

of its benefits. For example, if you

save and hit a target of 100

shillings in a month, you get a

bonus of 50 shillings. That is why

we preferred M-TIBA, because also

there is no savings limit.

In just

over one year, M-TIBA has gained

over 1 million users and processed

more than 100 million shillings of

medical transactions. But it is also

collecting data that can help

clinics like Olive Link plan a

better provision of service and stop

when funding and storage space is

limited.

Right now we get some very

good aggregated data, in terms of

people's health utilisation habits,

even transaction data, how much does

treating maybe a malaria case cost?

This helps a lot even in planning

and also at policy level, because

then we are able to influence the

politicians of our country.

Susan is

just one of many Kenyans who have

realised the importance of

preventative care through the

targeted incentives and advice

offered by M-TIBA.

Susan is like

many others out there, previously

they have not always had this tool

to be able to plan and put some

money aside for their healthcare,

but now, with their mobile phone,

they are able to do this.

Hello, welcome to the week in Tech.

It was the week Pokemon Go announced

it would be adding weather effects

to mimic the real world, and plans

for sad poop OG were flushed away.

And Facebook released a new chat app

for children under 13. Messenger

Kids has parental controls and

Facebook says it will not collect

data or display ads on the service.

Critics warn it could get kids

addicted sooner. Plans to launch

robot taxis in Japan. They will be

summoned via an hour from March next

year. And electric black cabs were

launched in London in an attempt to

improve air quality. However, some

say the extra £10,000 cost to buy

one may put cabbies of going green.

Over 31 million users' data was

leaked after a third-party

smartphone keyboard app left a

database without password

protection. It allowed access to

phone numbers, e-mail addresses and

text typed using the keyboard. And

finally, the Mona Lisa has been

recreated on a microscopic scale,

using a process called DNA origami.

The technique folds a long strand of

DNA into a set shape and has

previously been used to create a

miniscule version of Starry Night by

Vincent van Gogh off. And here is

what I made earlier. Back at the

children's global media Summit, we

are talking about the future of

storytelling, and which technologies

content makers and commissioners

might be using to capture children's

attention in the future. Will it be

VR? Will it be interactive stories?

Will it be narrative is driven by

Artificial Intelligence? After the

panel, I caught up with one of my

guests, the creative director Fulvia

at visual effects house Frame Store.

VR is so immersive, you can tackle

these big issues. But there is also

a danger with children. They are

glued to their phones and TV is but

to stick them in such an immersive

environment, what do you have to

think about?

There are so many

things. When it comes to kids that

at a number of characters we have to

think about and we have to be

cautious with what we are doing.

There is an age limit on headsets,

it is 13 plus, and that is there for

a reason. When we are designing an

experienced our audience it is about

understanding our audience and

understanding how long and

experience should be. Because they

get uncomfortable after a while.

Does it affect their behaviour? Does

it affect their interaction? And I

think all of those things we take

into consideration. And part of why

we are working with Goldsmith is we

want to tackle those issues head-on

in terms of a great VR experience.

An amazing story can actually do a

lot of good. And so we are bringing

the art in the science together.

What kind of via projects are you

working on for children, at

Framestore?

We recently worked with

Warner Brothers and JK Rowling on

Fantastic Beasts and where to find

them. That is an audience that

starts with three -year-olds, that

love the wizard in world, all the

way the 80-year-old grandparents.

And ultimately what great

storytelling about this -- is about

is taking someone to the heart of

the story, and that is really,

really powerful.

Is it more than

just VR, though? Are we fooling

ourselves to think that the future

of storytelling is virtual reality?

There are many other technologies,

should we be thinking about all of

those?

Since the time of cavemen we

have been wired to tell stories.

What is happening with the is it

becomes another medium, another

platform on which to tell a story.

It is never going to replace a book,

it is never going to replace going

to the movies and watching an

amazing Star Wars film with your

parents. It is never going to

happen. But what it does allow us,

as storytellers, as artists, as

directors, is a blank canvas.

Another canvas to help engage

people. I mean, why do we tell

stories? We want to somebody another

world. We want to bring to light. We

want to scare them, we want to

educate them. All of that is

storytelling, and what VR allows us

this amazing new platform that has a

profound affect on how we feel. So

VR adds this new layer of

excitement. And I think it is part

of the future of storytelling. It is

not the future, it is part of the

future.

Here is a nice little AR app

for kids. You download and print off

your favourite character from

CBeebies, colour it in however you

like, and then you pick up your

tablets, and look. There is the

duck. You can draw other characters

as well. For example, here is my

favourite, who has the power and the

speed, and she zooms away. Not that

I am a fan or anything. And from

some pretty decent visual effects

they are to some absolutely top of

the range visual effects now, in the

form of one of the biggest films of

the year, Paddington two. Don't just

take my word for it. Ask rotten

tomatoes, where it scored 100%. We

sat down with the man who is

responsible for bringing Paddington

from Peru to the big screen, for a

world exclusive look at how he did

it. Parents, spoiler alert. We are

about to take Paddington a part.

What's this?

This is London.

One of

the key areas that we began with his

pre- visualisation, it is working in

an extremely low five fashion, to be

able to practically explore camera

angles, moves, using... Working with

animators who have a familiarity

with Paddington himself. Filming

without Paddington, it makes the

process extremely abstract, that's

for sure. And so we employ a variety

of techniques. For the best part,

there is a stand-in called Lauren

who is about Paddington's height,

and she will give us, everyone on

the set, a brilliant insight into

Paddington's presence. You don't

want to make the work in post very

difficult or expensive by having to

paint blots out, so you try and

minimise what is in the place of

Paddington on the shot. I think the

things that are most difficult I

wear Paddington is interacting with

objects or people in the plate. So

you always need somebody to do that,

to create either the, you know,

touch the cloth that is going to be

touched. There is statistic that if

you put all the man hours together

it would be 75 years of someone's

life to do all the visual effects on

Paddington, so that sort of gives

you a bit of perspective. On how

much work is involved. Fundamental

was that he lives in... That you

would believe him, he had to be

hyperrealistic, he had to live in a

real space. You know, we are always

very careful to not reveal too much

whites of the eyes, to have eyes

that sort of look too cartoony. To

contain all the gestures. Often an

animator will first pick up

Paddington and they will go for very

obvious statements, and Paddington

is not about that. You take it all

away, it is all in what is

absolutely necessary, and it is a

sort of small shift of the brow

here, and a dart that that tells you

he is thinking. And I think, you

know, once you get into that, the

small, then you can start

engineering these sort of...

Carefully placing these sort of

beats. That is when it starts to

feel genuine, and live and breathe

as a real character, and something

that you can hopefully fall in love

with. The train chase obviously is a

particular set piece, was

inordinately complicated. But even

within the prison, you know, the

ceilings have been extended, and the

atrium. There is a huge amount of

set extension, when we are lifting

off in the balloon, and he is

escaping with Knuckles, the entire

prison exterior is a fabrication

that is CGI. Simple little scenes

like the one where he travels

through the prison, it is

transforming, and you are seeing his

effect on the place on and everyone

is making cakes, that was a

massively complicated sequence,

because of the very partisan sort of

way in which we wanted to make this

prison transform and that sort of

Michel Gondry like musical

appearance to all the things. It

took many, many... A lot of

planning, with many passes on motion

control, back and forwards, an

exploration of what would work,

doing things on and off. Almost

infinite possibility, that we needed

to play through. But no, there is a

lot of augmentation, always through

the film. I think probably almost

every shot you could point to

something and go, OK, well, that

photograph has been inserted in that

frame and that sky has been changed

there, or that Reg didn't exist, you

know. And there is a lot of that

stuff, all very understated.

Ow.

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