About ASEAN
Media Portal
The ASEAN Media Portal was
first launched by then ASEAN Secretary-General, Mr Ong Keng Yong, and
witnessed by Singapore’s Minister for Information, Communications and the
Arts, Dr Lee Boon Yang on 17 November 2007 in Singapore in conjunction with
13th ASEAN Summit and to celebrate ASEAN’s 40th Anniversary.
Hosting new and archived
multimedia clips on news, documentaries, culture, arts, heritage and tourism
information of its 10 member countries, the ASEAN Media Portal
(www.aseanmedia.net) provides a window to the rich and diverse cultures of
the region. Lending an industry focus to the ASEAN Media Portal is a
catalogue of commercial media content across the genres of television,
films, animation and games, as well as a listing of ASEAN broadcasters and
producers.
“ASEAN is home to 500
million people with a cultural heritage that encompasses some of the world’s
oldest civilisations. The ASEAN Culture and Information Portal and the
complementary ASEAN Media Portal will profile this rich diversity to the
rest of the world, while preserving the region’s audiovisual heritage. They
also will help to forge a stronger sense of ASEAN identity and reach out to
tech-savvy youths,” said Mr Ong.
The ASEAN Media Portal is a
project of the ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information and developed by
the Media Development Authority of Singapore. Coordinated by the ASEAN
Secretariat, the content on the ASEAN Media Portal is contributed and will
be regularly updated by all ASEAN member states. Since its launch, the
Portal has been updated with new content especially from students who submit
videoclips about their lives.
The ASEAN Media Portal is
relaunched on 10 November 2010 at the 44th ASEAN Committee on Culture
Meeting in Singapore. To ensure that the Portal remains
relevant to the peoples of ASEAN, it will have improved functionality to
make it easier for members of the public to unload content and allow each
country administrator to manage the content received from their country.
From an inside look at the daily lives of the people living in and around
South East Asia, to the arts and cultural happenings in and around the
region, ASEAN MEDIA Portal is the one-stop portal where users can learn and
be entertained. The Portal also demonstrates ASEAN’s collective media
capability and doubles up as a gateway to the region’s vibrant media
industry.