Digital Television - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about trends and issues relating to digital television, including datacasting and iptv to provide e-Government services.
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Digital television - United Kingdom - Archive
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Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to digital television in the United Kingdom.
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eGovernment - Digital television policy framework, United Kingdom - Archive
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Articles and resources about the report, which outlines the Government's vision on how to deliver services and information to the citizens over digital television and encourages departments and local authorities to evaluate the benefits of DTV.
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Interactive television, datacasting and digital television - Archive
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Archived resources about datacasting and digital television resources as they relate to egovernment.
- Looking Local harnesses Wii for telecare
- Kablenet, 18 February 2009. "The national digital TV project has made its service available through the Nintendo Wii games console..."
- Directgov hits the digibox
- Kablenet, 26 January 2009. "The government has made its central information service available through Freeview. An information only version of Directgov has been downloaded onto the terrestrial signal digital boxes over the past few days. It enables viewers to look at text only pages, using menus that provide routes to a range of information..."
- DigiTV receives EC funding for telecare
- E-Health Europe, 21 October 2008. "A digital TV initiative for public services run by Kirklees Council has won European Commission funding to develop interactive health and social care services. The European Commission will provide funding to DigiTV as part of a European consortium that is being supported to build and enhance telecare and telehealth provision across Europe..."
- DigiTV moves into telecare
- Kablenet, 18 September 2008. "The programme to promote the use of interactive digital TV (DITV) in the public sector is investigating its potential in telecare and telehealth..."
- Digital TV offers real time bus info
- Kablenet, 15 November 2007. "A local government digital TV project has made real time bus information available to residents of Yorkshire and the Midlands. The local government portal 'Looking Local' has teamed up with South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE) and Network West Midlands/Centro in the West Midlands to offer wider access to their real time information..."
- Digital Television Transition: Preliminary Information on Progress of the DTV Transition, GAO-08-191T
- Government Accountability Office, October 17, 2007. "On February 17, 2009, federal law requires all full-power television stations in the United States to cease analog broadcasting, enabling the government to reclaim valuable spectrum that the broadcasters currently use for analog broadcasts. This change, often referred to as the digital television (DTV) transition, requires action by broadcasters and consumers to ensure broadcast television signals are still available and viewable. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) created a program to subsidize consumers' purchases of digital-to-analog converter boxes. This testimony provides preliminary information on (1) the progress made by federal entities, and others, to facilitate the transition, (2) the progress in the education of consumers about the transition, (3) the progress made in implementing the converter box subsidy program, (4) technical issues of the transition, and (5) future GAO work on the progress of the DTV transition. GAO interviewed officials with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and NTIA. Further, GAO interviewed a wide variety of industry and other stakeholders involved with the transition, including members of the DTV Transition Coalition--a group of public and private stakeholders, and experts on strategic communications. GAO discussed this testimony with FCC and NTIA officials and incorporated their comments..."
- DigiTV
- "DigiTV [is a] website where you can find out about our digital TV and mobile services for Local Government in the UK. DigiTV is a not-for-profit service run by Local Government for Local Government, so if you are investigating digital TV or mobile phone services for your public sector organisation, then you have found the right site. DigiTV can help you further understand, pilot, launch and successfully run citizen-focused services on these new channels..."
- Exploring DigiTV - Looking Local
- By eGov monitor, 23 April 2007. "eGov monitor explores the Kirklees council driven DigiTV - Looking Local project, which is run by local authorities for local authorities enabling councils to interact with the communities they serve... DigiTV is the local government digital interactive TV technology provider, allowing all local public services to publish transactions, information, polls, consultations, services and more on Sky, cable, interactive Freeview boxes and mobile..."
- National job search engine launched on digital TV
- Source: Department for Work and Pensions. eGov Monitor, 3 April 2007. "A new digital TV service will offer viewers the opportunity to view thousands of job vacancies at the touch of a button. A new partnership between Jobcentre Plus (JCP) and Looking Local, the local government digital TV portal, gives all digital TV viewers access to a real time, national job search engine. On Looking Local job seekers can search by postcode to find vacancies for their local area..."
- Interactive home search
- Source: Wakefield Metropolitan Borough Council. eGov Monitor, 6 March, 2007. "Wakefield's citizens can now use their mobile phones and digital TV to choose a home in the district. Wakefield Interactive has launched a new Homesearch facility so citizens can register their interest in Wakefield and District Housing's (WDH) weekly advertised properties..."
- Digital education campaign switched on
- by Asher Moses. The Age, November 23, 2006. "The Government has begun a new $20 million initiative to help convince Australians to upgrade to digital television, before analogue transmissions are switched off during 2010-2012...
- Ready, Get Set, Go Digital - A Digital Action Plan for Australia [Report] - in pdf format (1300kb)
(This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, November 2006. "... This Digital Action Plan is the roadmap for the conversion of Australian television to digital..."
- Ready, Set, Go to Digital - A Digital Action Plan for Australia
- Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Media Release, 23 November 2006. "The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, today released a $20 million Digital Action Plan to help guide Australia's transition to digital television. Ready, Get Set, Go Digital - A Digital Action Plan for Australia outlines key steps the Government will take on the road to digital switchover and includes the creation of a dedicated switchover body - Digital Australia - which will be tasked with coordinating the efforts of Government, industry, manufacturers, the regulator and consumers in the lead-up to switchover..."
- Government looks to digital TV service
- Multi-channel approach to help achieve e-government goal, By Stephen Bell. Computerworld, 21 November, 2006. "The government is looking at digital broadcasting as an alternative way of offering e-government services to people without internet access. The idea is being canvassed as part of a multi-channel approach that the State Services Commission believes will help achieve the e-government strategy’s 2010 goal: a government transformed by online access..."
- Spain introduces interactive digital TV
- eGovernment News - 10 June 2006 - Spain - Regional and local. "David Cierco, Spain’s Director General for the Development of the Information Society, has announced the launch of the Alcázar Digital TDT project. By 2007, it will enable more than 30 000 citizens to deal with local municipal formalities and consult local council services using digital terresterial television (DGTV)..."
This category last updated: 20 August 2009