DiBEG News (2016)

The ISDB-T Broadcasting Technology Seminar was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Thursday December 1st, 2016 at the Ramada Colombo Hotel, organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan (MIC). Approximately 70 people participated in the Seminar. The Democratic Socialist Repu...

On November 24th the 5th Japan–Botswana Joint Working Group Meeting was held in Gaborone, Botswana. The meeting took place at the headquarters of the Department of Broadcasting Services (DBS), where the representatives from DBS, Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) and Botswana Communicati...

The Inter BEE (International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition) 2016 was held from November 16th through 18th at the Makuhari Messe in Japan, where ARIB/DiBEG participated in the exhibition for promotional activities on ISDB-T. This was the 3rd time of participation for ARIB/DiBEG. The Inter BEE was...

On November 14, 2016 Mr. Olímpio José Franco, President of SET (Sociedade Brasileira de Engenharia de Televisão), Brazil, visited the head office of ARIB in Tokyo. ARIB/DiBEG has been internationally promoting ISDB-T, the Japanese digital terrestrial broadcast TV standard; and has been in close c...

The 9th Japan–Philippines Joint Working Group Meeting was held in Manila, the Philippines on November 10, 2016. The Japanese delegation consisted of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Embassy of Japan in the Philippines, the DiBEG secretariat and a DiBEG expert, together with a c...

The 2nd International Forum on Digital Terrestrial Television was held in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on September 8 and 9, 2016. As many as 250 people, from the Honduran government, telecom operators and broadcasters, etc., participated in the Forum.  The Japanese delegation was headed by Mr. T. Shiba...

ARIB/DiBEG and SBTVD Forum have been collaborating in the promotion of ISDB-T in Latin America.  Starting this past April, to further enhance the collaborative activities the two entities decided to have regular meeting sessions roughly every 6 months, and at the SET EXPO 2016 opportunity the 2nd re...

Taking the opportunity of the SET EXPO 2016 in Sao Paulo, on August 29 the Technical Harmonization Meeting of the ISDB-T International Forum was held, where the ISDB-T adopting countries exchanged technical views and opinions.  Representatives from 10 countries, namely Japan (from the Ministry of In...

The SET EXPO 2016, comprising the exhibition of TV technology-related equipment and solutions as well as symposiums and conferences, was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil from August 29 through September 1, 2016.  The SET EXPO is an annual event organized by the SET (Sociedade Brasileira de Engenharia de Te...

The 4th Japan-Botswana Joint Working Group Meeting was held at the headquarters of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) in Tokyo on July 8, 2016.  Botswana decided to adopt ISDB-T in 2014, being the 1st ISDB-T adopting country in the African continent; and since then has had a bilat...

The 48th Celebration for World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) was held by the ITU Association of Japan (ITU-AJ President: Mr. Michiaki Ogasawara) at the Keio Plaza Hotel in Tokyo on May 17. The Encouragement Award: International Cooperation Field was conferred to the Task F...

DiBEG (Digital Broadcasting Experts Group) has been promoting ISDB-T internationally, by providing information or extending technical assistance and cooperation on ISDB-T to those countries in need of such services.  In the meantime in Brazil, where they adopted ISDB-T first outside Japan, the Forum...

The first ISDB-T Seminar in Maldives was held on Bandos Island on Sunday March 13, 2016, jointly organized by the Maldivian Ministry of Home Affairs and the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC).  The Republic of Maldives decided to adopt ISDB-T as its digital terrestria...

The International Seminar on Digital Terrestrial TV and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) was held on January 14 and 15, 2016, in Lima, Peru, organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan (MIC) and the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Peru, intendi...