OUR PARTNERS
ERDF and IPA-I project partners
Slovenia
University of Ljubljana (LEAD
www.uni-lj.si
10% – project partners
Montenegro
Partner)
Austria
Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
University of Montenegro
www.etf.ac.me
Serbia
Institute of Microwaves and Photonics,
Graz Univ. of Tech. www.ihf.tugraz.at
Institute Mihajlo Pupin www.pupin.rs
IITR Institute for Innovation
and Trend Research
www.iitf.at
OBSERVERS
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
University of Sarajevo
http://etf.unsa.ba
Croatia
Croatian Information Technology Association
www.hiz.hr
HUNGARY
ICT Association of Hungary
http://www.ivsz.hu
Theodore Puskas Foundation
www.neti.hu
Montenegro
Agency for Electronic Media www.ardcg.org
”Tackling the ”Digital Divide”
by delivering Internet content over digital TV signal”
Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Communications Regulatory Agency of
Bosnia and Herzegovina www.rak.ba
Montenegro
Ministry for Information Society
and Telecommunications
http://www.mid.gov.me/en/ministry
Serbia
Ministry of Foreign and Domestic Trade and
Telecommunications
http://razvoj.mtt.gov.rs/en/
Slovenia
Ministry of Education,
Science, Culture and Sport http://www.mizks.gov.si/en/
Slovenia
Institute Openlab Innovative Tech. and Services
www.openlab.si
INTK Murska Sobota
www.intk-institute.org
The project web:
www.see-tvweb.eu
For further information please contact:
Project coordinator: Rok Žurbi
Laboratory for Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
T: +386 1 4768 150
E: rok.zurbi@ltfe.org
Communication manager: Klara Heilingbrunner
ICT Association of Hungary
Tel: +36 70 392 20 48
E-mail: hklara@ivsz.hu
Disclaimer • The information in this leaflet does not necessarily represent the view of the European Commission (EC).
Jointly for our common future
The aim of the TV-WEB project is to deliver Internet content to those
who do not usually use Internet services and who have no broadband
connection.
The idea is to use the free digital terrestrial television (DTT)
broadcasting frequency spectrum capacities for transmitting selected
Internet content (such as news, e-services etc.) and ensure a sort of
Internet experience via TV devices to certain less advantaged segments
of the population, or those in rural areas without broadband access.
The concept of the project differs from the services provided by
technologies such as connected and Smart TV where the Internet
experience is ensured by connecting the TV to the Internet. Instead,
the SEE TV-WEB project foresees delivery of Internet content
to the homes solely using the DTT spectrum.
B e nefi c i ari es
The SEE TV-WEB project aims to foster accessibility and availability of Internet content
– at least providing a minimal internet experience – to vulnerable groups such as the elderly,
economically weak and all those who have no access to internet services
due to lack of access (rural) or limited computer/internet literacy.
In the long term, the project will represent a very important contribution towards
solving the issues of Digital Divide and social inclusion and thus will contribute
to the creation of a region of equal opportunities.
Jointly for our common future
Activities
The TV-WEB project will include technical, content related, regulatory and economical aspects,
and result in a fully functional pilot system able to deliver Internet content over the DVB-T/T2 networks.
More specifically, the following activities are foreseen addressing the key issues:
Background research activities
Promoting new solution and services
to the stakeholders and pilot action
•survey of the demographic situation in the respective
partner countries in the field of broadband penetration
and the use of personal computers
•awareness rising and promotion activities aimed at
stakeholders in order to encourage the adoption of new
solutions including content and services opportunities
•technical study determining potential solutions as an
answer to the identified situation and solutions that are
most appropriate in the various national contexts
•development of the pilot solution, providing
the selected internet content over DTT in partner
countries (for a limited period during project duration)
•development of the necessary legal and economic
framework for the proposed solution(s)
•end-to-end network adaptation proposal and
implementation of the pilot solution for increasing
accessibility in rural areas is foreseen.
Studies and guides
•elaboration of business case model and guidelines
for its implementation to enable decision-makers
to make choices about the proposed solution
Content and services of the new solution
•analyse on the content to be offered to the viewers and
develop it for promotional activities
•analysis of user behaviour/experience and specific
needs in rural areas, also targeting the elderly people
The SEE TV-WEB project is co-funded by the European Commission.