Launch of Girls Digital Literacy in East Asia and Pacific Report by UNICEF

Background:

Panel dialogue 2: Talking tech and broadcasting

Background: Interactive interview/conversation between a girl or young woman and the Girls in ICT Day Partners to share experiences about ICT and broadcasting by providing opportunities to see and talk with actual examples as the role models for them when they think about their own career life. This session will be a trigger to encourage girls and young women to learn more about ICT, broadcasting, and leadership.

Language: English and Bahasa Indonesia

Moderator:
Ms. Ni Ketut Abel Patricia, Student, London School of Public Relations, Bali​

Speakers:

• Ms. Misa Victoria Lepou, Acting CEO MCIT, Samoa
• Ms. Rika Damayanti, Head of Station TVRI, Bengkulu Province, Central Sumatera (Presentation​)​

Closing

• Ms. Atsuko Okuda, Regional Director, ITU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (Closing ​Remarks​​)​
  
• Ms Philomena Gnanapragasam, Secretariat Director/CEO, Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD)​
  

Session 1: The future of broadcasting services: Challenges and Opportunities
Objectives: Growth in technologies have enabled multiple ways of consumption of content. New user patterns with interactive methods like Video-on-demand, Video-on-demand and time-shifted viewing are common applications now, which lead to more accurate AI-powered consumer behavior analyses and these new emerging services are getting more interest from users. Advanced TV sets offered in the market are addressing these demands with even greater integration between broadcasting and broadband service delivery. On the other hand the advances in computer power and open-source software, availability of large amounts of data and less expensive cloud data storage have made AI technologies (especially deep machine learning) to become an essential part of the industry. For example the impact of applications like ChatGPT  using open AI platform would have impact on how content and information are aggregated, delivered and consumed.  This session will discuss the challenges and opportunities in Asia & Pacific region to greately enhance content delivery in the era of AI.

Main Experts:
• Andy Quested - Chair ITU-R Working Party 6C​ (​​​Presentation​)

Session 2:  Featured discussion: Inclusive and accessible broadcast media

Accessibility is for everyone, including specifically: persons with disabilities, older persons with age-related disabilities and those with learning disabilities, or people who live in a place where the language is different from their own. Countries signatories to the UN Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities (PWD) are responsible for ensuring Persons with Disabilities are responsible for ensuring ICT accessibility.

With evolution of technology, access services such as audio description, audio subtitles, closed captions and signing remains primary means of accessibility of media consumption for PWD, who remain an unattended potential market for broadcast.

This session aims to discuss the role of service providers and content creators to support a more inclusive future broadcast media through new and emerging technologies and innovation.

Main Experts:

​Mr Yoshio Shinoda- Newscaster- Okayama Broadcasting Corporation (Presentation)​

Session 3: Role of broadcast service during disaster and for enhancing resilience in the communication infrastructure.

Objectives: Asia and the Pacific is a region vulnerable to disasters. Over the years traditional broadcast media has played a key role in pre and post disaster management. But  with changing consumption patterns, how this role can be enhanced more effectively is the question that would be attempted to be answered during this session. In addition, the session would also highlight the importance of adopting Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and the role of media to support Early Warning for All (EW4ALL). 

Main Experts:

• Syed Aamir Riaz, Programme Officer, ITU​ (Presentation)
  
• ​​Dr Amal Punchihewa​, Technical Advisor, AIBD​​​ ​​​(Presentation)​

Session 4 : Enablers for sustainable growth of broadcasting services

Objectives:

As a concluding session, this session would look into the requirements timely Policy, regulatory and market enablers for future impactful broadcast services,. The session would attempt to explore

• Solutions to challenges of how broadcast media can support in achieving the social and developmental targets set by SDGs?
• How AI biases should be addressed at policy formulation?.

The session will also present current and future regional and international standardization roadmaps pursued by dedicated groups with ITU. Emerging trends, strategies for sustainability, and role and opportunities to achieve social and developmental goals of SDGs using broadcast as a public service.

Main Experts:

• ​Dr Amal Punchihewa​, Technical Advisor, AIBD​​​ ​​​(​Presentation)​
  
• Ms. Catherine Setiawan, Project Coordinator - ITU​ (Presentation)​​