Tell Your Story: India to Host Asia Media Summit

Stop killing journalists. Photo: UNESCO
Stop killing journalists. Photo: UNESCO

The 15th Asia Media Summit (AMS) 2018 is being hosted by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, jointly with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi and Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL), from 10th -12th May, 2018 in New Delhi.

Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting and Textiles, Smriti Zubin Irani, would be presiding as the Chief Guest over the inaugural ceremony of the Summit on 10th May.

The AMS 2018, an annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) Kuala Lumpur, is stated to be a prestigious summit in the Asia Pacific Region and India is hosting the event for the first time.

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The Summit, with the theme `Telling Our Stories – Asia and More’, would be organized in two parts pre-summit workshop (8th-9th) and conference (10th-12th).

Participants would represent organizations like ministries responsible for Information and Broadcasting in the Asian region, International Organizations UNESCO, FAO, UN; Regulators; Radio and Television broadcasting companies both national / public and private broadcasters; Television channels and networks, Institutes / Academies of Communication, Media Research; Community Radio groups; Press and Media, and broadcast equipment manufacturers.

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The Summit would encourage regional and bilateral dialogue and cooperation to respond to challenges to the broadcasting sector in the region. It would provide a unique opportunity for broadcasters in the Asian region to share their thoughts on software and hardware aspects of Broadcasting.

There are also opportunities for networking, facilities for business to business meetings and prospective translation of these meetings into trade and economic relations after the Summit.

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