Kim In-Kyu, the President and CEO of Korea's national broadcaster, KBS,
has been appointed a Commissioner of the Broadband Commission for
Digital Development, established by UNESCO and the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Launched in May 2010, the
commission brings together leaders in government, business, civil
society and international organisations.
Its role is to
provide broad policy guidelines for the development of a strategic
framework to accelerate the deployment of universal access to a
broadband network.
Dr Kim, who is also an ABU Vice-President, succeeds the former ABU President, Yoshinori Imai, as a member of the commission.
Mr
Imai, who stepped down in January 2011 both as Executive Vice-President
of NHK-Japan and as ABU President, was a founding Commissioner of the
Broadband Commission.
In this role, he argued that creating an
environment for broadband and broadcasting to complement each other was
the key to realising a beneficial information society.
The commission's next initiative will be a Broadband Leadership Summit in Geneva in October.
(Source : Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union)
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