Its objective is to design and implement a multimedia news broadcasting system, where the information is disseminated via digital communication, and delivered through portable multimedia devices.
Broadcasted information includes news, entertainment, education and advertising.
The overall objective of the proposed traineeship, apart from its obvious contribution to the creation of a critical mass of expertise in the use of electronic publishing technology in the area of information content industry, is also the demonstration of the use of training activities to trigger the transfer of RTD results to the industry. During the traineeship, the publishing business should be analysed and the preparation of a generic change plan should be used as a mechanism for the knowledge capture. For the consortium, the benefits are to gain feedback by the trainees concerning the commercial exploitation of their RTD results as well as to promote the early adoption of this technology in the publishing sector. For the trainees, the benefits are to impart the skills necessary to assess and implement the business process and enterprise structure changes necessary to exploit the opportunities offered by the technology know-how. The trainees will gain a technology overview and specific experience in collaborative multimedia authoring using distributed computing environment.