I am delighted to have this opportunity to address you by means of this blog. Social media and new media in general are increasingly gaining importance in the world of communications and this is no exception for AIBA and any other federation in the Olympic Movement.

A perfect example of this was at our recent congress in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where the result of the election for President was immediately announced on Twitter and even before the voting for the Executive Committee members was over we had received our first congratulatory "tweets".

At the Congress we heard numerous reports on the activities of the AIBA Commissions and the AIBA headquarters that show an enormous amount has been achieved over the past four years. But one of the first things I said when I was re-elected as president of AIBA is that we still have a lot to do.

While all but one of the continental vice-presidents were confirmed in their posts - Mr Gofur Rakhimov from Uzbekistan was elected as the new vice-president for the Asian Boxing Confederation - a total of 95 member federations voted in new Executive Committee members in a hotly-contested election that saw 54 candidates vying for 19 available seats.

The approval by the Congress delegates of the use of an electronic voting system considerably reduced the duration of the election and avoided a repeat of the lengthy scenes from Santo Domingo in 2007, which lasted until the early hours of the morning.

Congress delegates ratified three new provisional AIBA members, bringing the total number of member federations to 195. The new members are Guinea Bissau, Tanzania and Kiribati, one of the world's smallest countries by surface area.

One of the most significant topics discussed at the Congress was a new scoring system.

From the start of 2012 we will no longer show the running score in boxing competitions, so coaches will not know if their boxer is winning by a small margin and will therefore not be able to encourage them to put up a defensive guard. This will help to eradicate passive boxing and will help to improve the attractiveness of boxing for spectators.

We also had some major announcements from Kazakhstan itself, as the Government promised a significant investment in the new AIBA Boxing Academy that will become our home for training and development for boxers, coaches and officials worldwide.

Furthermore, a major Kazakh company, KSS Group, signed on as presenting sponsor for the first year of the World Series of Boxing.

On the eve of the Congress we were treated to a first glimpse of what the new World Series of Boxing (WSB) will look like.

The home team, the Astana Arlans, took on the Istanbulls in the first real WSB match.

The action was impressive and the organisers put on a show that will serve as an example for all WSB franchise teams in the first season.

The first matches are now only hours away and the excitement is palpable as the teams put the finishing touches to their preparations and their boxers put in their final hours of training.

For the sport of boxing, a new era is about to dawn.

C K Wu is the President of the AIBA and a member of the International Olympic Committee