Colombia. The country's audiovisual heritage already has adequate space for its protection. 61 years of television and 75 years of radio in the country are in the process of digitization.
On October 27, Señal Memoria and Señal Colombia commemorated the world day of audiovisual heritage with the screening of the documentary 'The end of memory' and the inauguration of the vaults of Señal Memoria, a space that began its construction in 2013 with the financial support of FONTIC and the National Television Authority – ANTV.
The financing that reached 15,000 million pesos makes it possible for the Señal memoria project to have an adequate space today with seven warehouses with capacity for 250 thousand supports, where 41 people work between the area of Fonoteca and videoteca.
"The preservation of the audiovisual and sound heritage implies the construction and consolidation of a digital culture, since it is in the technological environment where the images and sounds of the present and the past are recorded and can be preserved. During 2016 we hope to continue supporting this initiative," said the ICT Minister, David Luna, who attended the inauguration.
Señal Memoria is a project that seeks to recover, process and digitize the television and radio archives that are at risk of being lost to put them at the service of the country "All the transcendent facts of the history of the country, especially of the late twentieth century, and what we have of the XXI century, were recorded and were broadcast here, what Inravisión was, we consider that this is not only a heritage of RTVC, but it is a material, where Colombians are and there are the voices, the images, the moments that reflect the country we are with all its nuances, its accents, its regions, its colors" said in an interview for El Tiempo the director of Señal Memoria, Tatiana Duplat.
