H.E Amna Baloch, appreciated the efforts of AIBD and congratulated Ms Philomena to take charge as new Director and hoped that High commission would strengthen its working relationship with the institute.
In collaboration with Prasar Bharati (India) and MDEC (Malaysia), AIBD organized a webinar on “Managing Cybersecurity during COVID-19” on 5 May 2020, in which top regional shared their experiences and gave awareness on recent cybersecurity challenges observed during the time of COVID19. Over 200 broadcasters from 30 countries attended the webinar.
Mr Sameer Sharma, Senior Advisor, ITU delivered his keynote on “Building trust in digital world @COVID19” in which he discussed the recent initiatives and achievements of ITU.
Renowned Cybersecurity expert Mr Philip Victor highlighted the importance of saving Child netizens and how to make the internet a safer place for them. Mr Victor Lo and Dr Roshaliza Rosli discussed the Malaysian cybersecurity threat landscape in regards to the recent pandemic situation and how MDEC is trying to cope with the situation to minimize the impact.
Mr Prinya Hom-Aek, President and founder of ACIS Professional centre, delivered his presentation on effective BYOD (Bring your own device) mobile security policy.
Dr Pavan Duggal, Founder and chairman of the International Commission on Cyber Security Law discussed various case studies related to IoT security and how different governments are devising laws and policies to cope up with various challenges.
Mr Manu Zacharia, CEO & Chief Mentor, HackIT Technology and Advisory Services delivered his presentation on the rise of Ransomware and how different strategies can help cybersecurity officers to minimize the threat level.
Dr Amal Punchihewa, a broadcasting consultant from New Zealand, moderated the event.
The event was highly appreciated by the members and cybersecurity experts terming it to be relevant and timely due to current lockdown situation in most of the countries and where many broadcasters and journalists are working from home to broadcast their stories. At the end of the event, Ms Philomena, Director, AIBD mentioned that this is the beginning of this series and various regional workshops will follow it to raise the awareness of cybersecurity in Asia-Pacific region among broadcasters.
In collaboration with Prasar Bharti (India) and MDEC (Malaysia), AIBD organized a webinar on “Managing Cybersecurity during COVID-19” on 5 May 2020, in which top regional shared their experiences and gave awareness on recent cybersecurity challenges observed during the time of COVID19. Over 200 broadcasters from 30 countries attended the webinar.
Mr Sameer Sharma, Senior Advisor, ITU delivered his keynote on “Building trust in digital world @COVID19” in which he discussed the recent initiatives and achievements of ITU.
Renowned Cybersecurity expert Mr Philip Victor highlighted the importance of saving Child netizens and how to make the internet a safer place for them. Mr Victor Lo and Dr Roshaliza Rosli discussed the Malaysian cybersecurity threat landscape in regards to the recent pandemic situation and how MDEC is trying to cope with the situation to minimize the impact.
Mr Prinya Hom-Aek, President and founder of ACIS Professional centre, delivered his presentation on effective BYOD (Bring your own device) mobile security policy.
Dr Pavan Duggal, Founder and chairman of the International Commission on Cyber Security Law discussed various case studies related to IoT security and how different governments are devising laws and policies to cope up with various challenges.
Mr Manu Zacharia, CEO & Chief Mentor, HackIT Technology and Advisory Services delivered his presentation on the rise of Ransomware and how different strategies can help cybersecurity officers to minimize the threat level.
Dr Amal Punchihewa, a broadcasting consultant from New Zealand, moderated the event.
The event was highly appreciated by the members and cybersecurity experts terming it to be relevant and timely due to current lockdown situation in most of the countries and where many broadcasters and journalists are working from home to broadcast their stories. At the end of the event, Ms Philomena, Director, AIBD mentioned that this is the beginning of this series and various regional workshops will follow it to raise the awareness of cybersecurity in Asia-Pacific region among broadcasters.
AIBD will continue to play an active role in SDG advocacy for Asia-Pacific media with the help of U.N bodies, Ms Philomena Gnanapragasam, Director, AIBD.
AIBD Director gave a presentation at United Nations University in Kuala Lumpur on 6 March 2020 to U.N officials representing different bodies i.e. UNICEF, UNHCR, UNFPA, UNU etc. She highlighted AIBD’s collaborated achievements and its long-term partnership with U.N bodies for advocating human developmental issues through Asia-Pacific broadcasting organisations. She emphasized that the institute is well determined to partner with U.N bodies to create various capacity building programmes for regional broadcasters. She also mentioned that recent initiatives regarding training programmes on combating fake news and especially Reporting on Health crisis was well recognized and appreciated by institute’s members.
This year, AIBD engaged its members and partners to send us their pictures and their reports regarding the Radio Day observances, which will be reported in the upcoming issue of ‘Broadcaster’.
Some of the regional experts & broadcasters also sent us the video messages.
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H.E. Udaya Raj Pandey stated that media consumption of people in Nepal is very high especially for Radio programming. Apart from high listenership of community and public radio, many active listener groups follow the international media especially BBC, China Radio, etc.
H.E. also appreciated the efforts of AIBD regarding its upcoming inter-governmental research project on anti-fake news ‘The Angkor Initiative’. He said, because of the penetration of social media, fake news is becoming a menace to the societies, and the biggest challenge is that it can hurt the state policies and the perception of a common man. The government of Nepal is trying to devise a policy on fake news but it is not an easy task for a democratic country. However, AIBD’s research will help to understand the impact of fake news in the region and to observe some successful case studies implemented by some countries.
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Pakistani High Commissioner to Malaysia H.E Amna Baloch, who started her term here a month ago, welcomed the Director warmly. The Director her briefed about the recent activities of AIBD especially the Angkor Anti-Fake News and Minister’s conclave. H.E Amna Baloch informed that Pakistan is trying to cope with the challenge and Fake news and the new Government is devising policies on fake news, media literacy and right to information, and AIBD can help a lot in giving consultation which can be beneficial to the country.
Ms Philomena also discussed Pakistan’s role as one of the AIBD’s pioneer members. She suggested that Pakistan should play an active role in the region to narrow down the technological gap among developed, developing and under-developed countries. She suggested that High commission should invite H.E Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, Special Advisor to Prime Minister of Pakistan on Information and Broadcasting to the upcoming Minister’s conclave to be held in Samoa, early next year.
The aim of this practical training was to enabled the participants to explore the potential of mobile journalism in Fourth Industrial Revolution which requires new perspectives to be adopted by the Broadcasting industry. The workshop discussed the importance of effective and efficient communication between the newsroom and the field reporters. 
Participants of the workshop gained insight and practices during the training such as : producing interviews, documentaries and promos with smartphones, exploiting the smartphone specs with the manual controls, editing the footage, creating motion graphics, newsroom management for Mojo reporters, doing live streams from smartphones, working with the teams and distributing the reports on different platforms. The workshop also included extensive sessions on script writing and media management through smartphones. The workshop ended with a session on VR journalism and application of Artificial Intelligence as the future of Mojo as a way forward for a potential future workshop.
Participants, being senior broadcasters of TVRI, appreciated the training workshop and found it useful for both the future and their current work activities. Initially, some concerns were raised by the participants from camera department on the idea of ‘one man show’ and being less dependent on the traditional ways of production. In response, the consultant, Mr Nabeel Tirmazi discussed the global models of integration of Mojo workflow with the traditional setup, and emphasized that even cameramen should learn this workflow along with the storytelling techniques to uplift their profile and to contribute more impact fully for their organisation. 
On the first day, Mr Apni Jayaputra, Director of News & Programme TVRI, delivered his presentation on his experience as a Mobile Journalist and showcased his work. He told that TVRI has the plan to integrate the Mojo workflow in its mainstream broadcasting, but to do that, the employees should know the potential of this skill, the authorities will leave no stone unturned to uplift their employees for this skill. He also added, that Mr Helmi Yahya, Director President, TVRI, has planned further to recognize the significant contributors of MoJo and in near future there might be a separate division on New Media.
During the 5-day workshop, participants were given 3 assignments to showcase their newly gained skills. For this purpose, two sessions were allocated for the outdoor recording, one being a final report on historical Borobudur Temple, World’s largest Buddhist temple near Yogyakarta.
Participants showed active participation during the practical training and produced altogether fifteen short reports on various issues in Yogyakarta, which were shot, narrated and edited on smartphones only. The participants displayed high commitment to not only to apply the knowledge learned from this workshop but also to mentor their colleagues and subordinates to use the potential of ‘mojo’ to create impactful stories.
On the last day, Mr Isnan Rahmanto, Director Finance, TVRI was the chief guest, and he praised the quality of the reports produced by the participants of the workshop and encouraged them to teach these skills to their colleagues. He also mentioned that as President Director TVRI seeks to empower the employees of TVRI in the subject of Mobile Journalism, the organisation might organise more in-country workshops on the advance concepts of MoJo.
Lastly, Mr Rahmanto praised the role of AIBD in uplifting the Asian-Pacific broadcasting industry and showed support to the initiatives of Ms Philomena Gnanapragasam on coping with research on Fake news and to have an annual regional Ministerial meeting of Information Minsters of AIBD’s member countries.
Twenty-One participants from 15 TV stations of TVRI, which included regional stations of Turi Kalimantan Barat, TVRI Jogja, TVRRI Sumut, TVRI Sumsel, TVRI Sulbur, TVRI Kaltim, TVRI Aceh, TVRI Jawa Barat, TVRI North Sulawesi, TVRI Bali, TVRI Jateng, Tvri Sulsel and Head office in Jakarta with working experience from 7 to 20 years attended the workshop. 
Mr Nabeel Tirmazi, former producer from Pakistan Television and AIBD Programme Manager conducted the workshop while Ms Yohana Savitri provided the translation from English to Bahasa Indonesia.
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The judges’ board included Mr Jack Nadarajah, renowned Malaysian Broadcaster; Dr Ramachandran Ponnan, Taylor’s University, Malaysia; Ms Salbiah Mohd Sharif, Assistant Director, Department of Broadcasting Malaysia and Mr Zairul Eizam Abdul Rahman, renowned Malaysian documentary maker.
The panel evaluated the entries for the different award categories based on concept and production values. The final award winners are below.
AIBD TV Award 2019 for the Best TV programme on: The right to education means the right to a qualified teacher:
“Amazing School” from Sri Lanka Rupavahini (TV) Corporation, Sri Lanka
AIBD TV Award 2019 for the best TV programme on The Sound of Silence:
“This is What I Hear – Finding My Way” from Channel News Asia, MediaCorp – Singapore
AIBD Radio Award 2019 for the best radio programme on Rural Women: Tapping the power within:
“Xiaomei, When you are you going to show up?” from News Radio, CNR – China
Reinhard Keune Memorial Award 2019 for the best radio programme on Vanishing Sounds:
“Rechiming China’s Legendary Bells” from China Radio International – China
]]>“ Media practitioners need to pursue more responsible journalism and clear things out so that people get real information ”, Ms Kruger said as she addressed broadcasters and other media stakeholders attending the Pre-Summit Workshop on Combating Disinformation/Fake News at Siem Reap, Cambodia on 11 June 2019.
First Draft is an organisation that supports journalists, academics and technologists in meeting challenges related to trust and truth in the digital age. It hosts a global verification and collaborative investigation network, and conducts researches and training programmes on best practices in journalism.
In her presentation, Ms Kruger stressed that verification is a process that requires asking questions to fact check information, visuals and captions.
These questions, she said, include provenance – are you looking at original piece of content?: Source – who captured the content?: Date: when was content captured?: Location – where was content captured?: and Motivation – why was the content captured?
“ Verification is hard work, but there are tools that are available to ensure every bit of information is correct. Sometimes truth comes out later so we need to research more”, she said.
Ms Kruger also stressed the importance of being independent and accountable as journalists to combat false information.
Journalists should make a conscious effort to be free from control from different parties or any agenda, and also be transparent. This means being accountable which requires that journalists admit error and apologise for any false information published.
“ It is also not enough to describe content as simply fake news; we need to be more precise as to the types of information disorder”, she said.
There are three kinds of information disorder that can be classified. She said these are disinformation or information that is false and deliberately created to harm a person, social group, organisation or country; misinformation or information that is false but not created with the intention of causing harm; and mal-information or information that is based on reality, used to inflict harm on a person, social group, organisation or country.
Thirty two participants from 13 countries joined the day-long workshop where Mr OUK Kimseng, Undersecretary of State in Ministry of Information, Cambodia, also spoke on education and regulation initiatives to check hoaxes on social networks.
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“ Nothing happens if you don’t use your abilities in practice. Understanding leadership is not enough if there is no visible change in your leadership “, he said.
To be a great leader, he said, one must understand that “ leading is about people”, stressing that “ all leading is communication, and all communicating is leading”.
He added that communication skill is a fundamental tool of a leader and whatever he does is communication that people observe as he operates as a leader.
He also said that all leading, is influencing people, and to be successful, the leader must know his people and their personalities so that he can fit the way he communicates with them.
A Professor of Practice at LUT University Finland and a Visiting Fellow of the Reuters Institute at Oxford University, Mr Jääskeläinen, said the new media environment needs leaders who can inspire and empower people in a way that people are willing to give their best to the organisation.
In his presentation, he identified differences between a manager and a leader. He said a “manager focuses on systems and structures, while a leader focuses on people. A manager asks how and when, while the leader asks what and why”. He also stressed that a “manager does things right and a leader does the right thing”.
Nineteen participants from 10 countries in Asia Pacific attended the two-day workshop with Mr Jääskeläinen serving as its consultant. The workshop examines what is leadership and the need to learn it, types of leadership styles and emotional intelligence, and attributes of a good leader, among others.
Ms Leeza Fathimath, AIBD Programme Manager, welcomed the participants and expressed gratitude to EBU Academy for offering broadcasters in the region the opportunity to build human resource capacity in leadership.
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