PROJECT TITLE :

Ginga Middleware and Digital TV in Latin America

ABSTRACT :

In 2005, Brazil launched its digital TV (DTV) agenda. The most premise was to reduce the digital divide present in the country, giving the lower social classes the proper to access, manufacture, and distribute information. As a natural consequence, a second premise stressed the generation of local IT jobs and companies in support of this effort. It absolutely was under these needs that Ginga, the ITU-T DTV middleware system, was conceived. This department presents Ginga and its role within the socioeconomic development of Latin-America. It is half of a special issue on IT in Emerging Markets.