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Research and Development Center in Digital Technologies for Information and Communication Program (Programa Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Tecnologias Digitais para Informação e Comunicação - CTIC)

The program Research and Development Center in Digital Technologies for Information and Communication (CTIC), currently incubated by the Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP), was designed by the federal government with the objective of developing the national competence for the innovation in digital communications. In a first phase, the program will focus on its open digital TV actions.

The organization of CTIC foresees the installation of thematic networks, in the formats that have been happening in other areas of Research and Development. A thematic network must articulate several groups and laboratories interested in the multiple aspects and approaches of a given problem or technology.

In order to stimulate these networks, CTIC foresees for 2008, among other activities, the implementation of one or more infrastructures of transmission, reception and return channel. The intent is to develop and test innovating products and services based on Tecnologias Digitais para Informação e Comunicação - TICs (Digital Technologies for Information and Communication ), not exclusively dedicated to digital TV.

In the specific case of digital TV, an infrastructure such as this would allow the development and testing of proposals, technologies and solutions in the areas of codification, transmission, reception, access, interactivity, middleware, in addition to applications and services.