Iran was voted as the new President of the AIBD General Conference in the election held during the 42nd Annual Gathering/15th AIBD General Conference and Associated Meetings in Tehran, Iran on 26 August 2016.
Sri Lanka was elected as the Vice President of the General Conference, replacing Bangladesh.
Iran was voted as the new President of the AIBD General Conference in the election held during the 42nd Annual Gathering/15th AIBD General Conference and Associated Meetings in Tehran, Iran on 26 August 2016.
Sri Lanka was elected as the Vice President of the General Conference, replacing Bangladesh.
Dr Abbas Naseri Taheri, Advisor to IRIB President and Director General for International Affairs, IRIB, represented Iran. In his remarks following Iran’s election, Dr. Naseri thanked members for the vote of confidence and pledged to help the Institute implement programmes to meet their training needs. He said IRIB is willing to share their facilities and expertise in human resource capacity building to support AIBD’s mission.
Iran replaced Indonesia whose term ended this year following its election for the past two consecutive two- year terms. Dra Rosarita Niken Widiastuti, Director General of Information and Public Communication, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) represented Indonesia and served as GC President since August 2012.
Both Indonesia and Bangladesh were elected as the President and Vice President of the General Conference respectively from August 2012 and both were re-elected to those respective positions from August 2014. They served two consecutive 2-year terms and were not eligible to be re-elected.
4 New Members Voted to the Executive Board
Cambodia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Vietnam were elected as the new members of the AIBD Executive Board. They complete the entire EXBO that includes China, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and Thailand.
Full members who attended the 42nd Annual Gathering/15th AIBD General Conference and its Associated Meetings voted for the four new members to the Executive Board.
The Board meets once every year to examine the Institute’s annual performance and administration.
Iran is New President of AIBD General Conference
Iran was voted as the new President of the AIBD General Conference in the election held during the 42nd Annual Gathering/15th AIBD General Conference and Associated Meetings in Tehran, Iran on 26 August 2016.
Sri Lanka was elected as the Vice President of the General Conference, replacing Bangladesh.
AIBD Implements 33 Training Workshops in 2015-16
AIBD undertook 33 training workshops covering mostly areas dealing with TV and radio production, children’s programmes, disaster risk reduction and new media from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.
Close to 700 broadcasters from Asia-Pacific benefitted from these in-country, sub-regional and regional activities.
Film4Climate Global Video Competition Opens
Connect4Climate, the World Bank Group’s global partnership program, launched the Film4Climate Global Video Competition to promote sustainability in the creative industries through active engagement with young people in finding solutions to climate change.
Quality Management Audit Training
AIBD organised a two-day training on Quality Management Audit from 27 to 28 June 2016. The training was focused for the new staff who has not attended any Audit training. In addition to the new staff all staff members were provided with the opportunity to participate in the training, this was an effort of AIBD to develop its own human resources.
ASBU’s Commits Support to AIBD Activities
The Arab State Broadcasting Union (ASBU) announced it will continue to support the Asia Media Summit, 2017, the World Television Awards and pledged more Arab participation in the AMS 2017 to be held in May in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China.
Ms Moufida Limam, Chief, of the ASBU Director-General’s Office, Tunisia, made the commitment on 25 May 2016 during the 12th AIBD/ASBU/ABU Media Partnership Committee Meeting that took place during the Asia Media Summit in Incheon, Korea.
UN Chief Urges Better Protection for Independent, Free Media
UN Secretary General Ban-Ki-Moon expressed Tuesday his concern about the “increasingly restrictive environment for media workers in many countries,” saying that constraints on freedom of expression are shackles on progress itself.
“I will continue to urge all governments, politicians, businessmen, and citizens to commit to nurturing and protecting an independent, free media,” Mr Bank-Ki-Moon said in his message to some 300 broadcasters from Asia-Pacific attending the 13th Asia Media Summit (AMS) in Incheon, South Korea.AIBD’s Future Plans
AIBD Director Chang Jin shared Monday some of AIBD’s future plans in his message to participants in the presummit event on ‘Drones for Content Production,’ citing new initiatives to better serve the Institute’s members and partners.
“We will continue to grow and sustain the Asia Media Summit, now on its 13th year. We will expand participation in this premier communication event not only from the broadcast media industry, but also from new media,” he said.
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Iran to host GC 2016
AIBD is pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), Iran will host the 42nd Annual Gathering / 15th AIBD General Conference & Associated Meetings. The event will be held in Tehran, Iran from 25 to 27 August 2016.
The venue for GC 2016 will be the Ibn Sina Hall of the IRIB International Conference Center. The official hotel for the event will be the Parsian Esteghlal International Hotel. AIBD will inform delegates regarding the hotel room rates in due course.
35th International URTI Grand Prix – Call for Entries
The URTI organises, with the support of UNESCO and the entirety of the international audiovisual organisations, the International Grand Prix for Author’s Documentary.