From 2 to 5 September 2014 the Institut Penyiaran dan Penerangan Tun Abdul Razak (IPPTAR), along with AIBD and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) organized a Regional Workshop on Children’s TV Programmes in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
From 2 to 5 September 2014 the Institut Penyiaran dan Penerangan Tun Abdul Razak (IPPTAR), along with AIBD and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) organized a Regional Workshop on Children’s TV Programmes in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
This regional workshop took place at AIBD office and was attended by 14 participants coming from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Maldives and from several local broadcasters in Malaysia.
Mr Kalle Furst, Director Fürst & Father, Film and TV Ltd and consultant for NRK conducted this 4-day activity.
This regional workshop aimed at providing the participants an introduction to children's perception of media, as well as an introduction of working methods to make them excellent media-workers with and for children. During the course, the participants studied different aspects on TV formats for children like drama, documentary and game show; which were illustrated by several screenings following by discussions.
In addition of the practical exercises, the participants were divided in 3 groups and brainstormed ideas and concepts of TV programmes for children. The workshop ended with the pitch presentation of the groups work.
IPPTAR/AIBD/NRK Regional Workshop on Children’s TV Programme
From 2 to 5 September 2014 the Institut Penyiaran dan Penerangan Tun Abdul Razak (IPPTAR), along with AIBD and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) organized a Regional Workshop on Children’s TV Programmes in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
AIBD/TM In-Country Seminar on Broadcast Management
The In-Country Seminar on Broadcast Management organised by AIBD in collaboration with Telekom Malaysia (TM) was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 19 August 2014. The seminar was designed specifically for TM staff from sales, marketing, technical, customer care centre, officers and managers. The seminar aims to bring understanding the broadcast industry, especially to get a feel of developments concerning technology, business and regulation.
Workshop on Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial (DVB T2)
The In-Country workshop on Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial (DVB T2) organised by AIBD in collaboration with Prasar Bharati and STI (T) was held in New Delhi, India from 4 to 8 August 2014. The workshop was designed specifically for broadcast engineers/technicians associated with planning, implementation, operation and maintenance of digital television broadcasting. The workshop also covered various techniques and parameters of DVB-T2.
AIBD/FBC In-Country Workshop on Broadcast News Coverage
Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) and Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) conducted a two-week long workshop from8-19 July 2014 for the multi media journalists of FBC at their headquarters in Suva, Fiji.
The training program was designed to help the young journalist have a better knowledge of various aspects of broadcast. The participants were from their English, Hindi and iTaukeiservices.
The workshop dealt with topics like news writing, reporting, production and on air presentation.
Mr Sashi
Mr. Sashidharan P.M. Sreedharan joined AIBD as an IT Officer in April 2014.
Sashi started his career with OAC Insurance (Subsidiary of OCBC Bank) in 1995 as a backup operator. He later moved to Asia Brown Boveri Power Generation (ABB) in 1996 as an IT specialist, and Computer Systems Advisors Malaysia (CSAM) in 1999 as a field service engineer.
UN-APCICT Regional Workshop on Social Media for Development
The Regional Workshop on Social Media for Development was held on 30 June – 2 July 2014 in Incheon, Republic of Korea and was attended by AIBD Programme Manager Saqib Sheikh. The workshop was organised by the United Nations Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (UN-APCICT) and was attended by over 40 experts in various fields of development, including the government sector, media broadcasting, disaster risk relief and reduction, agriculture and ICT.
AIBD/FES Publication “Media Ethics in the Age of Social Media”
One of the highlights of the pre-summit events of the Asia Media Summit 2014 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is the launch of the AIBD/FES publication “Media Ethics in the Age of Social Media” during the opening of the pre-summit workshop on the same theme on 5 May 2014.
AIBD/VON In-country Workshop on Performance Management
AIBD together with Voice of Nigeria (VON) holds a five day in-country workshop on Performance Management for Corporate Planning and Evaluation which commenced on 28 April 2014 with the aim of identifying the objectives that are needed to be affirmed and refined, along with the initiatives to be put in place in order to meet the aspirations of Voice of Nigeria.
AIBD/NRK/FBC In-country Workshop on Children’s TV Programmes
From 17 to 21 March 2014, I had the pleasure of chairing an in-country workshop on children’s TV programmes organised in Fiji by AIBD and supported by NRK for 9 participants of Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC). FBC TV is rather new - only 2 years old and with relatively small - but very enthusiastic staff.
Training Approaches in the New Media Environment
For broadcast training institutions to be attuned and responsive to the demands of new media and social media, they need to form task forces that will facilitate exchange of trainers and experts, offer a more modularized and interactive type of training curriculum relevant to broadcasters’ needs and establish a web-based management protocol or a ‘brokerage’ of sort that facilitates generation of training data and regional exchanges and collaboration.