AIBD faces the challenge of a large geographic distance between the secretariat in Kuala Lumpur and its member countries. Winfried develops concepts to bridge the distance for the purposes of training and consultancy. He currently holds the position of the Distant Education Consultant in AIBD.

His main responsibilities are the E-Mail based Micro Trainings and the Web-based Training Community projects of AIBD. Further duties include the analysis and improvement of the work flow in AIBD, development of AIBD's website and other internet operations. He conducts training courses and subjects on various IT subjects. Support of member countries in building and improving their internet activities also belongs to his work.

Mr. Winfried Trumper

Before joining AIBD, Winfried worked for Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle and for the national broadcaster DeutschlandRadio. The programmes of both stations carry more speech than music during daytimes, making them a major source of information. His duties included supervision of the external companies, which were dealing with the content management systems, audio databases or software development.

Linux is one of his specials interests. Being a Linux user and Linux system administrator since 1993, Winfried carefully checks that the IT facilities of AIBD stay inter operable with other systems and open for competition.