The Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) launched its new website on January 12th, 2011, featuring more content and attractive design, interactive and user-friendly services that will benefit its members and other media stakeholders across the globe.
The new AIBD website (www.aibd.org.my) contains a full website search, online publications that are fully searchable and downloadable, and lots of photo and video galleries of the Institute’s events such as the Asia Media Summit.
The Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) launched its new website on January 12th, 2011,, featuring more content and attractive design, interactive and user-friendly services that will benefit its members and other media stakeholders across the globe.
The new AIBD website (www.aibd.org.my) contains a full website search, online publications that are fully searchable and downloadable, and lots of photo and video galleries of the Institute’s events such as the Asia Media Summit.
The AIBD activities will get their own space, with news, reports, blogs and images from ongoing trainings, serving as a showcase of the outcomes and achievements of the training programmes.
An added feature is the website’s integration with social media such as Facebook, Bookmark Service, and e-learning platforms for online courses.
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The webteam: Ms Mpho Thebe, Mr Holger Banko and Mr Lin Mengke (from right to left) together with the director.
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New AIBD Website Launched
The Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) launched its new website on January 12th, 2011, featuring more content and attractive design, interactive and user-friendly services that will benefit its members and other media stakeholders across the globe.
The new AIBD website (www.aibd.org.my) contains a full website search, online publications that are fully searchable and downloadable, and lots of photo and video galleries of the Institute’s events such as the Asia Media Summit.
UNESCO HIV Co-pro
Short Films Collection on HIV “POSITIVE LIFE”
UNESCO and AIBD have been setting up a vast young journalists network dedicated to HIV/AIDS matters. Over the years, UNESCO and AIBD have trained those journalists on HIV/AIDS coverage and TV production.
AIBD-KCC Cooperation Agreement-2010
The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) and AIBD recently signed an agreement of cooperation on capacity building initiatives in ICTs benefiting Asia-Pacific broadcasters. As part of this cooperation, KCC organised two training courses – (i) Digital Switchover and Convergence Policy from 6-14 July 2010 and (ii) Broadband and Broadcasting Technologies from 14-22 October 2010, both held in Seoul.
Challenges to Public Service Broadcasting
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.
1st Pacific Media Partnership
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.
Staff welcomes new AIBD director
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.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS from TV broadcasting organizations in Kazakhstan
For participating in AIBD/IPDC UNESCO In-country Workshop on Capacity Building of TV News Reporters for Environmental SustainabilityOne week in November (dates TBA) 2010, Almaty, Kazakhstan
The goals of the workshop are to “encourage media to engage in public participation and to debate improvements that can lead to sustainable development” (Media as partners in education for sustainable development, UNESCO, 2008) and to improve the ability of TV journalists in Kazakhstan to conduct research and analysis and present balanced, contextualized coverage of environmental issues and their human impacts.
Objectives: