Keep in mind ICT's harmful side

While taking part in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) revolution, threats to sentiments concerning children, gender, individuals and religion should be taken into consideration, said Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu yesterday.
He was referring to the Ramu violence early Sunday, centring a Facebook posting of a photo defaming the holy Quran, while addressing a seminar, “Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (DTTB)”, in the capital's Bangladesh Television (BTV) office.
The government never wanted to block YouTube but had to so as to avoid hateful incidents, he said. “The block on YouTube is not permanent and the government will always be with digitalisation.”
BTV Director General M Hamid urged the necessity to migrate from analogue transmission system to digital transmission system.
The seminar saw illustrations on two DTTB formats -- Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) and Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial 2 (DVB-T2) -- regarding future BTV transmission.
Y Teramura, a Japanese ICT expert, illustrated the feasibility of using ISDB-T, the most advanced international standard broadcasting format, which is cost effective and had the potential to create new telecommunication and broadcasting services.
ICT expert from Singapore Allen Kho Yew Luen described the measures of DVB-T2, mostly used in Europe.