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| What is Conference on Demand? |
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The Cyber Kansai Project had provided the new information service in COP3, Kyoto, last December. The purpose of this project was to enhance the impact of the conference by using the most advanced information technology to broadcast its meetings to the entire world the Internet. Those goals had
been defined in a Memorandum of Understanding between the Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) and the COP3 Information Support Committee of Kyoto, as the Cyber Kansai Project was the core team. Also, to heighten interest in the conference in the local communities, those Internet broadcasts were shown as TV-level clarity at several central spots in the Kansai region. We named this information service Conference on Demand, it can be referred at http://ckp.jp/. |
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| Conference on Demand for COP4 |
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With the basis on the success of COP3, the Cyber Kansai Project provided the core technical staff and the equipment required for Conference on Demand service for COP4 under the Memorandum of Understanding between the UNFCCC and the Cyber Kansai Project. The proceedings of Plenary 1 (or Plenary 2) will be broadcast over the Internet in RealVideo (floor language) and RealAudio (6 official UN languages). In additon, we will provide selected Press Conference, the schedule of our service will be informed at our daily up dated site, http://www.cop4.ckp.jp/.
The live broadcast will benefit from a number of splitters in other sites, UK, US and Asian countries, to improve the quality of the broadcast and increase the number of simultaneous users. And the RealVideo / Audio files generated will be stored for on-demand viewing and listening. |
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| The systems |
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Conference on Demand system is set up in the NOC (Network Operation Center) room of Centro de Exposiciones del Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
The Visual data will be provided via CCTV line, the Audio data will be provided from the interpreter room to NOC. We set 11 encoders, 3 are Audio / Visual encoders, the others are Audio encoders. And we set up web,Real (Live stream and Archives) and back up servers. Live and on demand files are fed via E1, and 7 splitters are prepared in several countries site, NTT TE KANSAI and Cyber Kansai Project are Japanese site, NAIST (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Thailand and Indonesia are organized by Asian Internet Interconnection Initiatives (AI3), and KDD EU in UK, NTTMCL in US, all the sites are contributed by each organaizations.
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| The team |
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| Suguru Yamaguchi |
Associate Professor,Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
| Motonori Nakamura |
Associate Professor,Graduate School of Economics Kyoto University |
| Tadahisa Okimoto |
Sub Manager, NTT Telecom Engineering Kansai CO., LTD. |
| Tomoaki Sakurai |
KeelNetworks INC./Keio University Shonan Campus |
| Seiji Kumagai |
Senior Research Scientist, Digital Campus,
Information Services International-Dentsu, LTD. |
| Keishi Kandori |
Department Director, Technical Research & development Dept.,
Asahi Broadcasting Corporation |
| Toyokazu Yoshida |
Technical Research & development Dept., Asahi Broadcasting Corporation |
| Koichi Kinoshita |
TV Production Engineering Center, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation |
| Toshio Watanabe |
Supervisor, New Electronic Media Department Media Services,
Radio&TV Division, DENTSU INC. KANSAI |
| Hiromi Ota |
Digital Business Promotion Dept., Digital Center Kansai Office,DENTSU INC. |
| Mitsuhiko Okamochi |
Supervisor, Digital Business Promotion Dept., Digital Center Kansai Office, DENTSU INC. |
| Toshiharu Hasegawa |
Professor, Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Science,Faculty of Business, Nanzan University |
| Masaya Hatta |
General Producer, AMS Corporation |
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| Local affiliate |
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| Esteban Rodrigez |
U.B.A. Engineering Faculty |
| Matias Okawa |
U.B.A. Exact and National Sciences School(Biology) |
| Ines Yujnvsky |
U.B.A. History |
| Lara Strittmatter |
U.B.A. Exact and National Sciences School(Botanist) |
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| The contributors |