ICPF Symposium: The Challenge of Digital TV Transition 2011

The analog broadcasting in Japan is planned to stop until July 24, 2011. However, there are almost 100 million analog TVs in Japan now. Can they be all changed to digital in three years? How would it be financed? This is a very difficult challenge, but it would be a great opportunity to open the precious UHF band to new entrants, too. Our Information and Communication Policy Forum (ICPF) is going to have a symposium to discuss this problem.

Date: July 25, 2008
Place: Kudan Kaikan, Tokyo (map)

Program

13:00 Registration

13:30 Keynote Speech 1: Toranosuke Katayama (ex-Minister of MIC)
“The Strategy of Japanese Government for the Digital Transition”

13:50 Keynote Speech 2: Kevin Werbach (University of Pennsylvania)
"From Broadcasting to the Network Age: Lessons from the Digital TV Transition in the United States"

15:10 Discussion: “How Japanese Government Should Overcome the Transition”

• Hajime Oniki (Osaka Gakuin University)
  
• Hideki Maekawa (TBS Research Institute)
  
• Nobuyoshi Kodera (IT journalist)
  
• Hiroshi Yoshida (Chief of Terrestrial Broadcasting Division, MIC)
  
• Moderator: Hajime Yamada (Toyo University)

17:00 Closing

Capacity: 100 people
Fee: 5000 yen
Registration: E-mail to info@icpf.jp