The 12th Asian Information Summit, organized by the Asia and the Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development of Indonesia, was held in the Indonesian city of Manado. Dr. Riyadh Najm, President of the General Commission for Audiovisual Information, an affiliate of the Ministry of Culture and Information, led Saudi Arabia's delegation to the event. In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency, Dr. Najm said the meeting discussed the use of social contact network in providing addition services to viewers of TVs and broadcasting stations, the role of information in building human abilities and developing the societies and mechanisms of preserving domestic cultures in the media amid globalization.During the summit, Dr. Najm chaired a session titled "using the social contacts in developing the contents of TV and Broadcasting stations whereas four speakers from different Asian countries took part. Dr. Najm invited the participants to take part in the 11th summit to be held in Jeddah in 2014, its first ever in an Arab Asian country. On the sidelines of the summit, meetings for the Partnership Committee for Information among Asian Broadcasting Union, and Arab Broadcasting Union and Asia Institute for Broadcasting Development were held in the presence of delegates from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and Qatar.
