Digital Switchover

Details of the organization
TRA
International
www.tra.gov.ae
Governments
  • The organization has a strategy for coordinating WSIS Implementation at the national level: Yes
  • The organization has a national e-strategy: Yes

Information about the project
Digital Switchover
The TRA is following the vision of making the UAE a digital society aligned with WSIS mandate C2: “information and communication infrastructure”. The TRA has made the UAE one of the first countries in the Middle East to set a deadline for the digital TV switchover and analogue TV switch off by December 2013. The TRA has prepared a detailed plan and it is available on the TRA website. The plan provides general guidelines and a time frame for the digital TV switchover process, aimed at maximizing the benefits of the switchover and to have a smooth and seamless transition to digital TV. This switchover to digital TV will provide valuable benefits to the UAE society. In addition to residents getting better picture and sound quality and enhanced multimedia transmission, it will also offer high spectrum efficiency.
National implementation:
Completed from

WSIS information
* Information and communication infrastructure
* Enabling environment
* ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life
  • Eradicate poverty and hunger
  • Achieve Universal Primary Education
  • Promote gender equality & empower women
  • Reduce child mortality
  • Improve maternal health
  • Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Develop a global partnership for development
  • Project
The project is being considered as contributing to the objectives of the ITU Connect the World initiative? No