Environmental sustainability, notably climate change, has become an unprecedented concern in the 21st century, and Central Asia was no exception.

AIBD-UNESCO-IPDC In-country workshop on Capacity Building of TV News Reporters for Environmental Sustainability was held from 17 to 23 November 2010 at Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research (KIMEP) in Almaty. A local environmental non-governmental organization Central Asia Regional Environmental Centre (CAREC) partnered AIBD and the host organization KIMEP to successfully conclude the project.

[img_assist|nid=135|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=70|height=100]The Asia Media Summit 2011, organised by AIBD and hosted by The Voice of Vietnam (VOV) will be held at Melia Hanoi Hotel, Hanoi, from 24 to 25 May 2011. Several pre-summit workshops/seminars will also be held in the same hotel on 23 May 2011.

We are expecting 500 top-ranking broadcasters, decision makers, media professionals, regulators, scholars, and stakeholders from Asia, Pacific, Europe, Africa, North America and the Arab World to attend the Asia Media Summit and to examine issues that impact the highly competitive and dynamic media environment.

The media landscape in Bhutan offers many opportunities as well as challenges for those involved in reform.   For a country which introduced television as recently as 1999, and which until a couple of years ago had only one (state-owned) newspaper, the spurt in media-related activity, especially since the advent of popular democracy in 2008, has been striking.  It is not surprising, therefore, that attention has now turned to strengthening public service broadcasting in this Himalayan idyll.

The 1st Pacific Media Partnership Forum was held successfully in Tonga on 20-27 August 2010. The event offered media practitioners in the region concepts and tools that will enhance capacity in various aspects of broadcasting critical in responding to the rapidly changing media landscape.

More than 50 media practitioners from 13 countries participated in six seminars and workshops covering convergent journalism, marketing and financial management, media’s role in natural disasters, public service broadcasting, media regulations and initiatives to build a vibrant broadcast industry in the region. The Tonga Broadcasting Commission hosted these activities in Nuku’alofa.

The AIBD General Conference and its Associated Meetings is the annual official gathering of the Institute. The General Conference is open to AIBD Members Countries, Affiliates Members and partners by invitation only. Members Countries, Affiliates and partners would have the opportunity to review the huge number of activities handled by their Institute within and comment on the future activities.

Below we captured some impressions of the 36th GC in Macau.

After assuming duties last Friday the 17th of September, the new director of AIBD, Mr Yang Binyuan was welcomed today in a get together at the AIBD Conference room. The former AIBD Director and ABU Secretary General Javad Mottaghi and the staff from AIBD, FES and GMCD attended.

More than 800 media managers and practitioners from around the globe joined forces to exchange views and experiences on the most pressing challenges facing broadcasters today – digitalization, fierce competition from new media, rising costs and responsibilities in a world of shrinking budgets.