January 12, 2017 Signing Memorandum of Cooperation concerning Road Traffic Information Pilot Project through ISDB-T Data Broadcasting

On January 12, 2017, the MIC, the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) and People’s Television Network Inc. (PTV) signed a memorandum of cooperation concerning Road Traffic Information Pilot Project through ISDB-T Data Broadcasting(i-TRIP:ISDB-T Road Traffic Information Provision).
The memorandum was exchanged by Mr. Shigeki Suzuki, Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination (International Affairs), MIC, Mr. George A. Apacible, Undersecretary for Government Owned and Controlled Corporations Operations and Good Governance, PCOO, and Mr. Dino Antonio C. Apolonio, Network General Manager, PTV, at the signing ceremony attended by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Rodrigo Duterte.
The memorandum will facilitate joint efforts to develop the road traffic information system, which aims at mitigating traffic jams in the Philippines through the dissemination of real-time traffic information via terrestrial digital TV broadcasting network.

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  The Republic of the Philippines adopted Japanese and Brazilian standards of digital terrestrial television broadcasting (ISDB-T) in November 2013.
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  The development of the road traffic information system is one of the areas for cooperation identified in the Memorandum of Cooperation between the MIC and PCOO in the field of ICT, signed in October 26, 2016.