The mission of the World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network (WITBN) is to “develop collaborative relationships between indigenous television broadcasters in order to create opportunities for:

• increased audiences; better access to resources;
• enhanced knowledge transfer;
• improved understanding of indigenous issues by all audiences;
• strategic international leadership;
• enhancement of schedules through programme exchange;
• and reaching out to all other indigenous television broadcasters”.

Initiatives such as a proposed ‘Programme Exchange Scheme’ are now being considered by the Network.

The Network is also looking at the development of a 30-minute weekly indigenous news ‘wrap-up’ programme of the major news stories of WITBN member organisations.

It is envisaged that a pilot with the new WITBN branding will be produced by December 2008.