Dr Chawki Sahnine, Director General of Algeria Broadcasting (TDA) is the new chairman of the AUB’s Technology and Training Commission. He was re-elected on 6 July 2017 during the meeting of the Technology and Training Commission in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Senegalese-born Alioune Badara Ndoye who works with the Senegalese Radio and Television (RTS) was elected Vice-President while the post of Rapporteur was grabbed by Joel Thuto of DBS (Botswana).

Before his election, Mr Chawki Sahnine was already occupying the AUB’s Technology and Training Commission. However, given the many technological challenges faced by media professionals in Africa, there is still much left to be done.
We know, for example, that for some time now, the Union has opened a wide-range of innovative programs, particularly with regard to the Program Exchange Network.
To this end, ten new days have been given to the new President and his team to define the specifications this of Program Exchange Network. And a call for expressions of interest will be produced by the AUB.

The new Bureau of the Technology and Training Commission should also focus on training. While waiting for the panel of experts selected by the AUB to approve the Training Modules, Algeria is willing to organize in Algiers, in the near future, a training program on questions related to broadcasting in Africa.

Specialization is the other point on which Dr. Chawki Sahnine and his team will focus. To this end, three countries have already made available training centers to the Union: Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. It’s now left to African technicians and journalists to seize all the opportunities that will be offered to them.