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3rd IPTV Application Challenge

Joint ITU and IPC IPTV Application Challenge - "Better quality of life with international standards: an accessible world for all"

Launched in July 2014, ITU and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) organized an IPTV application challenge titled "Better quality of life with international standards: an accessible world for all".

The Challenge focused especially on accessibility aspects to raise awareness of the importance of multimedia and multimodal audiovisual accessibility for everyone, especially persons with a variety of levels and types of disability, including age-related disabilities . The Challenge gave both experts and non-experts a chance to uncover their innovative ideas and to develop/refine their applications for actual deployment in systems built to ITU-T's global IPTV standards.
The final applications run over the provided platforms based on either ITU-T H.761 (Ginga-NCL) or ITU-T H.762 (LIME: interactive multimedia).

Newslog: ITU, IPC

Awards

Joint ITU and IPC IPTV Application Challenge - Best Apps - Individual/SME
is awarded to the following two winners. The Cash Prize is splited evenly, thus each winner receives USD 2,500.

Laboratory of Advanced Web Systems (Brazil) for its application titled: “Listening TV: a different perspective about watching TV” running over ITU-T H.761
Mr Günter Heinrich Herweg Filho (Brazil) for his application titled: “A+” running over ITU-T H.761

Joint ITU and IPC IPTV Application Challenge - Best Apps - Corporate/Public Sector

ASTEM Co., Ltd. (Japan) for its application titled: "Listen with your eyes TV" running over ITU-T H.762

Honourable Mentions-Corporate/Public Sector

Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC) for its application titled: “Brazil 4D (Project)” running over ITU-T H.761

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Sponsorship opportunities

The Joint ITU-IPC IPTV Application Challenge presents a significant marketing opportunity. Sponsorship packages are available to make your company’s profile visible to a large worldwide audience. Your contribution will assist ITU and IPC in organizing the event including: the cash prize, refinement of the winning applications, awards ceremony and other logistics costs. Significant benefits will be offered to sponsors.

Awards Category

Best App - Individual/SME (small and medium enterprise) with a cash prize of USD 5,000 
Best App – Corporate/Public Sector (no cash prize) 
Honourable mentions - Individual/SME (no cash prize) 
Honourable mentions – Corporate/Public Sector (no cash prize)

Platforms

The final application will have to run over the provided platforms based on either ITU-T H.762 (LIME: interactive multimedia) or ITU-T H.761 (Ginga-NCL), and optionally ITU-T H.763.1 (Cascading style sheets for IPTV services) or ITU-T H.764 (IPTV services enhanced script language).

Resources

NCL Club: Repository of online resources for ITU-T H.761 use and implementation
LIME Starter Kit: Open source information on ITU-T H.762

"Better quality of life with international standards: an accessible world for all"

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) (jointly referred to as the “Organizers”) are organizing an IPTV application challenge titled “Better quality of life with global standards: an accessible world for all” (hereinafter, the “Challenge”)

By entering the Challenge, participants agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions (hereinafter, “Rules”). All decisions of ITU and IPC ((including those related to disqualification for violation of these Rules) are final and without appeal.

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