Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Our 24th Year in Development Communication


24 years in development communication

Established in December 15, 1986, AIDCOM has on Wednesday 15, December 2010 reached its 24th year in development communication. AIDCOM was established with a mission to contribute to equitable human development through the implementation of development communication programmes in the Asian Pacific and is mandated to promote the role of mass media and communication with a view to strengthening the development process in a civil society.The formation and establishment of Aidcom was in response to the need to develop a communication support system for effective management of sectoral development programme.

Today AIDCOM has managed to operate closely in many countries in the Asia-Pacific with national, regional and international media organizations. AIDCOM has conducted numerous conferences, seminars, workshops, symposiums and colloquiums on issues which contribute to the national concerted efforts on capacity building of our labor force, as stated in our national Five-Year Malaysia Development Plans to increase productivity and efficiency in the use of labor as well as strengthening the human resource base for sustained economic growth of Malaysia.

Aidcom is financially supported by various international organizations and United Nations agencies and it occasionally raises a very modest fund through publications and specialized training courses for media and with age it grows stronger every year.


Subscribe to the Journal of Development Communication to contribute to equitable human development.



Contact Information.

Asian Institute for Development Communication (Aidcom),
First Floor, 32 & 34
,Jalan Bangsar Utama 1,
Bangsar Utama,
59000 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.

Tel: (603) – 2287 0023 (hunting line); Fax: (603) – 2287 3023;
Email: aidcom@streamyx.com ; Url: : http://www.aidcom.com


Tuesday, December 14, 2010

What you need to know about the forthcoming seminar

The room for interaction with the experienced professor of leadership and organizational behavior, Professor Dr. George Kohlrieser.


WHO IS PROFESSOR DR. GEORGE KOHLRIESER?


Professor Dr. George Kohlrieser is the Dean of Faculty and Head of Research at the ICLIF Leadership and Governance Centre. He is an organisational and clinical psychologist and a professor of leadership and organisational behavior at IMD (the International Institute for Management Development), Switzerland.

An engaging speaker, George has worked with many global organisations including Accenture, Barclays, Caterpillar, Morgan Stanley, Kraft, UBS, Cisco, Coca-Cola, HP, IBM, Nestle, Nokia, Roche and Toyota. In Malaysia, George has worked extensively with Khazanah and MINDA (The Malaysian Directors Academy) - on its Board of Directors programme, Sime Darby and Petronas. George completed his doctorate at Ohio State University and is the author of the best-selling and award-winning management book, translated into 14 languages, titled Hostage At The Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, And Raise Performance.


Please contact us for more information.

Asian Institute for Development Communication (Aidcom),
First Floor, 32 & 34
,Jalan Bangsar Utama 1,
Bangsar Utama,
59000 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.

Tel: (603) – 2287 0023 (hunting line); Fax: (603) – 2287 3023;
Email: aidcom@streamyx.com ; Url: : http://www.aidcom.com

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Forthcoming Seminar


Seminar on High Performance Communication: Influencing, Persuading & Negotiating, by Pro George Kohlrieser

Date: 11 January 2011
Time: 9am to 5pm
Venue: Taylor’s Lakeside Campus

High Performance requires all members of an organisation to work together across boundaries of culture, diversity, interpersonal differences, and conflicts. In essence, every organisation is a product of how its leaders and members think and interact.

This presentation aims at introducing participants to the concept of leadership as a process of communication, dialogue, influence and persuasion.

In order to influence followers effectively and correctly, organisational leaders need to adopt a mindset of “playing to win” rather than “playing not to lose” allowing them to bring forth their vision with passion. Cutting edge leaders know how to take appropriate risk, inspire trust and create opportunities to foster success for themselves, their teams, and their organisations.

Who Is This For?

• CEOs / CMOs / CFOs / COOs
• Managing Directors
• Senior Management
• Leaders & Change Agents
• Business Owners

Programme Overview

The role of influencing and persuasion in the negotiation process.
• Using the law of reciprocity as a method of influencing.
Managing resistance to change, the difficult person, and the cycle of escalation.
The art of concession making as a key to high impact negotiation.

Programme Structure

• High impact communication.
• Influence, persuasion and negotiation.
• Action Learning and application through Role-playing.
• Feedback.
• Action Planning.

What will you learn?

• Learn how to be an effective listener.
• Use the full power of interaction.
• Learn how to proactively solve conflict.
• Harness your informal authority to communicate clearly and directly with team members and others.

Methodology

Presentations, small group work, action learning exercises, role-playing and action planning.

Our contact information is as follows:

Asian Institute for Development Communication (Aidcom),
First Floor, 32 & 34
,Jalan Bangsar Utama 1,
Bangsar Utama,
59000 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.

Tel: (603) – 2287 0023 (hunting line); Fax: (603) – 2287 3023;
Email: aidcom@streamyx.com ; Url: : http://www.aidcom.com

Contact Persons: Mr Hew Wai Sin or Ms Zel Leong (016-6382408


Sunday, August 22, 2010

Seminar


High Performance Communication: Influencing, Persuading & Negotiating, by Professor Dr. George Kohlrieser

High performance requires all members of an organisation to work together across boundaries of culture, diversity, interpersonal differences, and conflicts. In essence, every organisation is a product of how its leaders and members think and interact.

This presentation aims at introducing participants to the concept of leadership as a process of communication, dialogue, influence and persuasion.

In order to influence followers effectively and correctly, organisational leaders need to adopt a mindset of “playing to win” rather than “playing not to lose” allowing them to bring forth their vision with passion. Cutting edge leaders know how to take appropriate risk, inspire trust and create opportunities to foster success for themselves, their teams, and their organisations.

Date: 3 November 2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 9am to 5pm
Venue: Taylor’s Lakeside Campus, Taylor’s University College


Programme Overview

Focusing with the "mind's eye" to overcome negative mindsets
How brain science can help leaders be more persuasuve
High performance leadership
What hostage negotiators know and do to get an over 90% succes rate

Programme Objectives

Learning how to be secure base
Understand the importance of the bonding cycle
Learn how to be an effective listener
Use the full power of interaction

Key Take-aways

Creating bonds even with your adversaries
Tools to remove blocks to dialogue
Principle of Highly Effective Influence, Persuasion, and Negotiation

Who Is This For

CEOs / CMOs / CFOs / COOs
Managing Directors
Senior Management
Leaders & Change Agents
Business Owner

Programme Structure

High impact communication
Influence, persuasion and negotiation
Action Learning and application through Role-playing
Feedback
Action Planning

Methodology

Pre-work assignments - short presentations, small group work, action exercises, role-playing, action plan, follow-up assignments

Our contact information is as follows:

Asian Institute for Development Communication (Aidcom),
First Floor, 32 & 34
,Jalan Bangsar Utama 1,
Bangsar Utama,
59000 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.

Tel: (603) – 2287 0023 (hunting line); Fax: (603) – 2287 3023;

Email: : aidcom@streamyx.com ; Url: : http://www.aidcom.com

Contact Persons: Mr Hew Wai Sin or Ms Zel Leong (016-6382408)

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The Journal of Development Communication


Volume 21, Number 1, June 2010

This issue of The Journal of Development Communication is the Number One of the Twenty first Volume. In other words, JDC has passed 20 years of publication smoothly and uninterruptedly. The efforts by the publisher and the editors of JDC in this context have been greatly enhanced and patronised by the readers, subscribers and contributors from all over the world. We are indeed very grateful to them.

Professor Nora C Quebral is one of the pioneer Gurus of development communication in line with the late Everett Rogers and others. Nowadays, it is not always common to come across her contribution to development communication. We are honoured to publish her latest on devcom in this issue. We are confident that readers will enjoy her article.

Ecotourism is becoming increasingly popular both as a conservation tool and as an alternative to unsustainable tourism practices. The article of Dr Stacey K Sowards examines the role of ecotourism in three national park areas in Kalimantan, Indonesia. While Stacey in the article will draw the attention of the environmental communicators, she will also draw to the number of pitfalls that can be addressed through effective communication between and among individual parties.

Professor Samsudin A Rahim presents important issues on youth development and their challenges and contradictions in his article “RegeneratingYouth Development: The Challenges for Development Communication”. Empowerment and participation are two vital concepts in the youth development and development communication approaches. Both these approaches aim at developing society in particular marginalised society to ensure that they are not left behind in the rapid expansion of the nation.

Dr Farish Ullah has undertaken a study to examine the influence of five significant demographic variables viz. locality, gender, education, socio-economic, status and age in the area of health-related information. The influence was measured on three integrated components of the effects process -- knowledge, attitude and behaviour. Among other things, the study has identified different semantic, socio-religious and structural barriers that adversely affect the success of these campaign.

Dr Meenakshi Sharma’s article on “Optimising Communication Channels for Inclusive Rural Development in India” examines some projects aimed at empowerment and inclusion of the rural people and discusses the imperative of employing old-fashioned human communication channels optimally in combination with ICT applications to best serve the needs of marginalised communities.

In this issue, we have another article based on the study that investigated the use of ICT by agricultural researches in Nigeria. The article, by Tajudeen O A Banmeke and Michael T Ajayi, will certainly be appreciated by like-minded researchers.

Anuradha Tulachan in her article presents a picture of the various telecenter initiatives in Nepal and the policy context within which they are situated. The paper presents current initiatives in addressing the challenges concerning language, content localisation and networking among the telecentres.

We have published two book reviews in this issue. Both books are related to development communication.

An International Conference on “Dialogues on Fostering Understanding and Building Bridges Across Cultures Among Young People of Asia and Europe” was held recently in Melaka, Malaysia. We have included a report written by Varsha, Chief Operating Officer of World Youth Foundation, Malaysia.

Subscription rate

Annual subscription rates per year (two issues): Malaysia RM 68 inclusive of airmail surcharge, Developing countries US$27.00 inclusive of airmail surcharge and Industrialised countries US$50.00 inclusive of airmail surcharge. Single copies of the journal are available at half of the annual subscription rate. Payment may be made by bank draft/manager’s cheque/US$ cheque. Cheques must be crossed and made payable to AIDCOM. Subscribers in Malaysia may pay either in cash or by cheque in Malaysian Ringgit.

Our contact information is as follows:

Asian Institute for Development Communication (Aidcom),
First Floor, 32 & 34
,Jalan Bangsar Utama 1,
Bangsar Utama,
59000 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.

Tel: (603) – 2287 0023 (hunting line); Fax: (603) – 2287 3023;

Email: : aidcom@streamyx.com ; Url: : http://www.aidcom.com

Contact Persons: Mr Hew Wai Sin or Ms Zel Leong (016-6382408)

Sunday, June 13, 2010

PHOTOJOURNALISM: A DECISIVE MOMENT, 2 - 4 August 2010

A picture is worth more than a thousand words, and its appeal either as a separate entity or as a complement to a verbal story, goes way beyond the strength of the words. It is not a question of pictures competing with words. It is a question of what combination of words and pictures that will most effectively communicate an idea to a reader.

OBJECTIVES
This Training the Trainers Workshop aims to train academicians to provide them with better knowledge and skills for training their students. It also aims to provide practitioners of photojournalism an in-depth understanding of the power and value of photojournalism, combining many practical hands-on aspects of photojournalism together with theory.

REGISTRATION FEE (for Malaysian)

The registration fee per participant for the Workshop is RM2,100. for Malaysian participants. A discount of ten percent will be offered if there are more than one participant from the same organisation (inclusive of the first participant). This fee covers the tuition, course materials, lunch and refreshments for the duration of the Workshop. Full payment or an official letter concerning your participation must be received in order to guarantee the participant a place in this Workshop. In the event that the registered participant is unable to attend, a substitute is allowed. However, a 70 % levy of the registration fee would be charged for those participants who either have registered but did not inform in writing to Aidcom, at least 3 working days, before the start of the Workshop that they are unable to attend or have registered but did not attend the Workshop. Please complete and return by fax / email the Reply Form attached. The closing date is 28th July 2010.

OVERSEAS PARTICIPANTS

Overseas Participants are required to pay for their own airticket to and from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as well as accommodation. Lunch and refreshments during the workshop will be provided by the Organiser. They should arrive on 1 August 2010 and depart on 5 August 2010. As for accommodation, you may like to stay at the venue of the Workshop, Hotel Singgahsana, Persiaran Barat, Off Jalan Sultan, Petaling Jaya, Selangor (Tel: 603-79562100, Fax: 603-79542041, website: www.hspi.com.my). Aidcom is most happy to make the necessary hotel reservation on your behalf and payment will be settled by the participant. The single room rate is RM125.00 nett per room per night inclusive of breakfast. The Registration fee is US$700.00 (US Dollars) and payment is either by cheque to be posted to our address or by Telegraphic transfer.

VENUE OF THE WORKSHOP

The workshop will be held at Hotel Singgahsana, Persiaran Barat, Off Jalan Sultan, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. (Tel: 603-79562100, Fax: 603-79542041, website: www.hspi.com.my). The contact person is Ms Najah Sharina bt Zulkifli, Sales & Marketing Executive.

Our contact information is as follows:

Asian Institute for Development Communication (Aidcom),First Floor, 32 & 34, Jalan Bangsar Utama 1, Bangsar Utama 59000 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

Tel: (603) – 2287 0023 (hunting line); Fax: (603) – 2287 3023;

Email: aidcom@streamyx.com; Url: http://www.aidcom.com

Contact Persons: Mr Hew Wai Sin or Ms Zel Leong (016-6382408)

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

“PHOTOJOURNALISM: A DECISIVE MOMENT”

This Training the Trainers Workshop aims to train academicians to provide them with better knowledge and skills for training their students. It also aims to provide practitioners of photojournalism an in-depth understanding of the power and value of photojournalism, combining many practical hands-on aspects of photojournalism together with theory.