Colombia. The fourth version of ACIEM Telecom was held in Bogotá on October 4 and 5. On the closing day, the policies of universal access to television that the ANTV has implemented to guarantee access to the country's television were exposed by the engineer Ernesto Orozco Orozco, representative of the governorates before the JNTV.
In his speech, engineer Orozco stressed that "we have advanced with the strategic plan of digital television for all establishing policies of universal access to open and closed television, and digital for those who by geography do not receive the television signal."
He also said that "we have detected that 6% of the Colombian population has at least one disability and at least 15% have hearing problems, which does not allow them to hear what they see on their television screen. Regarding this, the issuance in 2016 of resolution 315 was achieved, which imposes on all Colombian operators programming goals with interpretation mechanisms in Colombian languages or subtitling."
He maintained that the ANTV, after having reviewed the framework of the Pay-TV market, designed two regulatory measures: resolution 1813 of 2017, which modified the regime of consideration, and resolution 026 of 2018 was issued, which resulted in growth in the first half of 2018 in 411,784 subscribers.
On the other hand, Suzy Sierra Ruiz, representative of Civil Society at the JNTV, participated in the panel 'Creative Industries: opportunities in the audiovisual sector', a space where the orange economy was discussed as an infinite opportunity. There he said that "the help of engineers is needed to generate additional opportunities and competencies for the transmission and production of content."
Sierra Ruiz indicated, with respect to the training of human talent in the audiovisual area, that "it is not only a specialty of knowledge, all audiovisual work since its inception has been empirical and multidisciplinary but we must think more strategically, we must review how technology meets the needs of the industry".
Finally, on the guarantee that we want to achieve with multiscreen consumers, the member of the JNTV said that "from the ANTV we understood that it is not about viewers but about audience, therefore, we have made approaches with different communities and we have worked with the regions to empower audiences and remind them that in television and what happens in the world implies being connected, the audience should feel that they are connected and that we are interested."
