KWN (Kid Witness News) is a global video education program supported by Panasonic, with the aim of boosting creativity and communication skills and fostering teamwork through video production by children at the elementary and junior high school levels. More than 130,000 children around the world have participated in the KWN program since it first began in the U.S. in 1989.

Panasonic lends video production equipment to schools for student video productions. Videos created by the students are submitted to an annual awards contest, with prizes awarded in over ten different categories, including news, documentaries, dramas, commercials, etc. In 2004, an international category was created in the contest for the first time, taking the competition global. As of October 2009, around 8,000 children from 630 schools in 24 countries/region around the world are participating.

In keeping with this growing number of participants, a KWN Global Contest open to videos from all participating countries will be held annually, beginning in 2007.