International Basketball Association: Difference between revisions

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Type:	Sport Federation
Industry:	Sport
Founded:	1932
Headquarters:	Avenue Louis Casaï, 53 1216 Cointrin, Geneva
Country:	Switzerland
Website:	www.fiba.com
Key People
Yvan Mainini, President Patrick Baumann, Secretary General Markus Studer, COO

The International Basketball Association (FIBA) formerly known as Fédération Internationale de Basketball Amateur is an independent association responsible for defining the rules of basketball and governing international basketball competitions. It is composed of 213 national basketball federations worldwide and its headquarters is located in Geneva, Switzerland.^[1]

New gTLD Application

On April 25, 2012, FIBA confirmed its application for the .basketball generic top level domain name (gTLD) via ICANN's New gTLD Program. Its main objective is to protect the sport, its stakeholders and its approximately 450 million players and fans worldwide. The association partnered with ROAR Domains LLC and Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. to prepare its application with ICANN, while Minds + Machines will provide its back-end registry solutions.^[2]

Activities

The main activities of FIBA include: ^[3]

Establish the official basketball rules, specifications of equipment and facilities, including the internal executive regulations for all international and Olympic competitions
Control and appoint international referees
Regulate the transfer of players from one country to another
Control and govern international competitions

The FIBA Academy

In 2008, the association established the FIBA Academy to provide world-class academic programs and ensure that all the athletes, administrators, coaches, event organizers and other entities involved in the basketball business worldwide will have access to an educational center that caters to their needs and updated with the latest basketball trends and developments. The programs offered by the academy include:^[4]

FIBA Academy Manager's Programme
Global MBA for Sport and Major Events
Executive Residential programmes
Flexible online learning

References

[1] About FIBA

[2] PR N°7 - FIBA files application for .BASKETBALL Generic Top-Level Domain

[3] What We Do

[4] FIBA Academy

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-The '''International Basketball Association (FIBA)''' formerly known as  ''Fédération Internationale de Basketball Amateur''' is an independent association responsible for defining the rules of basketball and governing international basketball competitions. It is composed of 213 national basketball federations worldwide and its headquarters is located in Geneva, Switzerland.<ref>[http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/FIBA/quicFact/p/openNodeIDs/962/selNodeID/962/quicFacts.html About FIBA]</ref>
+The '''International Basketball Association (FIBA)'' formerly known as  ''Fédération Internationale de Basketball Amateur''' is an independent association responsible for defining the rules of basketball and governing international basketball competitions. It is composed of 213 national basketball federations worldwide and its headquarters is located in Geneva, Switzerland.<ref>[http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/FIBA/quicFact/p/openNodeIDs/962/selNodeID/962/quicFacts.html About FIBA]</ref>
 ===New gTLD Application===
-On April 25, 2012, FIBA confirmed its application for the [[.basketball]] [[gTLD|generic top level domain name]] (gTLD) via [[ICANN]]'s [[New gTLD Program]]. Its main objective is to protect the sport, its stakeholders and its approximately 450 million players and fans worldwide. The association partnered with [[ROAR Domains LLC]] and [[Top Level Domains Holding Ltd.]] to prepare its application with ICANN, while [[Minds + Machines]] will provide its back-end registry solutions.<ref>[http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/news/inte/p/newsid/51390/arti.html PR N°7 - FIBA files application for .BASKETBALL Generic Top-Level Domain]</ref>
+On April 25, 2012, FIBA confirmed its application for the [[.basketball]] [[gTLD|generic top level domain name]] (gTLD) via [[ICANN]]'s [[New gTLD Program]]. Its main objective is to protect the sport, its stakeholders and its approximately 450 million players and fans worldwide. The association partnered with [[ROAR Domains LLC]] and [[Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd.]] to prepare its application with ICANN, while [[Minds + Machines]] will provide its back-end registry solutions.<ref>[http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/news/inte/p/newsid/51390/arti.html PR N°7 - FIBA files application for .BASKETBALL Generic Top-Level Domain]</ref>
 ==Activities==
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 * Regulate the transfer of players from one country to another
 * Control and govern international competitions
-==The FIBA Administration==
-The daily operations and logistical aspects of the headquarters of the association in Geneva is supervised by the FIBA Administration. It is responsible in maintaining the secretarial services of the FIBA management, travel and hotel arrangements for the business trips of FIBA staffs, organizing basketball conferences and world congress, social events during Olympic Games and FIBA World championships and meetings, translation services, online and booklet publication, archive and historic records management and reception services. <ref>[http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/FIBA/fibaDept/p/openNodeIDs/964/selNodeID/964/fibaAdmin.html FIBA Administration Department]</ref>
 ==The FIBA Academy==
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