MEMBER BENEFITS
The Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) offers a huge number of projects/activities annually to its members in all areas related to radio and television covering programming, news, media management, new technologies and media law and policies.
AIBD also provides advisory/consultancy services to its members at a very nominal fee or no charge at all. Such advisory services cover all areas related to radio and television and in particular, deal with new technologies, ICTs, structuring and restructuring of organizations, Internet and media law and policies. It also provides upon request specially designed courses to meet the country’s broadcasting organization’s needs. There is in fact a great deal that AIBD can do to help its members in their human resource development and capacity building.
AIBD alleviates media development through: –
1. Training
2. Consultancy Service
3. International and Regional Media Dialogues
4. Regional Professional Seminars
5. Publications and CD/DVD-ROMs
6. Specific Professional Service
7. AIBD Annual Meetings
Link : AIBD Code of Ethics
FULL/AFFILIATE MEMBER
Full membership of the AIBD is confined to sovereign states and they are invited to designate the broadcasting authority of the country to be the beneficiary. Only full members attending the AIBD General Conference shall have the right to vote.
National centers and national institutes of broadcasting and organizations dealing in the main with electronic media, whether publicly or privately owned, may apply for affiliate membership of the Institute, subject to the approval of the AIBD General Conference. Affiliate members shall not have voting rights at the AIBD General Conference.
HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER
The procedure for becoming an Affiliate Member is simple. We need a letter from your organization indicating your interest in becoming an Affiliate Member of the AIBD with a brief profile about your organization in order to circulate this information to AIBD full members requesting their approval within 3 weeks. The obligation in becoming an Affiliate Member of AIBD is to pay an annual subscription as stipulated in our confirmation letter.