The Minister of Communications María del Rosario Guerra and the Director of the National Television Commission CNTV- María Carolina Hoyos, will meet with a delegation of the Community European and some member countries such as France, Spain, Italy and Finland, to formalize the start of cooperation international on the implementation of Digital Television Terrestrial DTT- in Colombia.
The Minister will highlight the importance of the selection of the standard DVB-T as a mechanism that should serve to strengthen the sector of Information and Communication Technologies ICT- of the country and will request to pay attention to the more critical aspects for the process of implementing the Digital Terrestrial Television, topics on which the first and most important efforts of the cooperation agenda European.
The National Television Commission selected the past 28 of August the European standard of Digital Terrestrial Television, which implies for the country changes in the way of producing, market, transmit, receive television and in the form to see it by viewers. One of the aspects taken into account in the adoption of this standard had to do with with the international cooperation offered to the country by the European governments and some industries of the DVB Consortium.
The delegation of the European Community shall be composed of the Ambassador - Head of Delegation to Colombia Fernando Cardesa, the Director General for Latin America for Relations Foreign Affairs Stefano Sannino and the Head of the Relations Unit International in the General Directorate of the Society of the Information Jean Francois Soupizet, among other important delegates from the European Commission. The ambassadors of France Jean Michel Marlaud, of Italy Gerolamo Schiavoni, from Spain Andrés Collado and from Finland in Venezuela Phyala Mikko.
The National Government, under the coordination of the Ministry of Communications formed the Governance Committee for the Implementation of the European Offer of Cooperation in this area of DTT of which the Ministries of Communications are part, Foreign Relations, Trade, Industry and Tourism, Finance and Public Credit, Culture and National Education; as well as the National Planning Department, SENA and COLCIENCIAS. The Committee seeks to ensure benefits for viewers and the audiovisual industry of the country.
