NEXUS International Broadcasting Association
NEXUS International Broadcasting Association (NEXUS-IBA) was officially founded in 1988 in Milan, Italy, as a non-profit association of broadcasters and program producers.
As the Latin word nexus, NEXUS-IBA is a link (or point of connection) between content producers and the association's technical facilities used to bring such content to the public.
Member services
NEXUS-IBA's main focus is to provide broadcasts internationally by means of Shortwave radio, targeting Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia with high-power transmitters and directional HRS type antennas. Most programs on the air are produced by NEXUS-IBA members and originate as multiple audio and video streams from NEXUS-IBA's network operations center in Milan. From there, they are transmitted live to each ground or satellite relay station. Internet audio and video channels are available to the public via the WorldDirector streaming network operated by Wornex International, and published either on the association's websites or directly on its members'. To increase performance due to the international character of NEXUS-IBA's audiences, live and on-demand audio and video streams are made available to listeners via multiple servers or point of presence in Europe, Asia, and the USA.
Services provided to NEXUS-IBA members also include: ad hoc research and development projects based on the Association's technical know-how, audio and video Streaming media, Shortwave and Satellite television broadcasting, internet hosting, and consulting on international media.
NEXUS-IBA as an R&D organization
NEXUS International Broadcasting Association is also a research and development organization that developed the first known Content Delivery Network in 1995. As a non-profit organization, NEXUS-IBA acts as a research incubator with high-tech professionals in the computing, Internet, telephone, and media industries for a number of media-related technologies. Since early 1995, NEXUS-IBA's Content delivery network technology—called WorldDirector and later incorporated by its spin-off Wornex International—has been used for distribution of NEXUS-IBA members' audio & video streaming channels, as well as other archives and web services belonging to the Association's members.
NEXUS-IBA also participated in a three-year research project under the European Union's 5th Framework Programme (Information Society Technologies, Key Action I.4.2, On-line Support to Democratic Processes) for the development of DEMOS (Delphi Mediation Online System), an internet-based platform to favour debate among citizens and politicians, aimed at facilitating "online democracy".
DEMOS has been completely redesigned and made available to government bodies and private enterprises by NEXUS-IBA's spin-off Wornex International, with the continued support of NEXUS-IBA researchers.
See also
References
External links
- DEMOS at UNESCO
- DEMOS paper
- DEMOS at WORNEX International
- Conoscere DEMOS (white paper in Italian)
- padania.org a DEMOS-3 application
- Wornex International
- NEXUS-IBA home page
- NEXUS-IBA Shortwave schedules
- International Public Access Radio
- European Gospel Radio
- Undpi.org Archived 2019-07-09 at the Wayback Machine
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