Rwanda digitises criminal trial recordings

The UN International Criminal Tribunal (ICTR) for Rwanda has embarked on a project to migrate its video recordings to high-resolution digital video files for the purpose of ensuring the long-term preservation of these unique records, reports Screen Africa.

This new development aims at enabling the tribunal to permanently preserve the recordings which are expected to be 30 000 hours long at the end of the ICTR's mandate.

Recently, the tribunal entered into a contract with Front Porch Digital to conduct the digitisation of the video recordings.

Digital libraries, audio-visual presentations and films could soon be the new educational tools for students in 14 government and private colleges as the authorities hope to take learning beyond the conventional textbook experience, says Sify News.

Apart from introduction of latest technology, the `Vision 2010 document' of the higher education department, circulated among colleges, focuses on promoting learning through exposure to real-life situations.

“Our aim is to widen the awareness canvas and expose students to real-life situations. Vision 2010 document rolls out a road map for bringing various reforms in the college education,” says Ajoy Sharma, Chandigarh's director of higher education.

The Middle East has been identified as being among the fastest growing markets for the multi-billion audio-visual industry which, in spite of the troubling economic environment last year, has seen no overall contraction in spending, writes Al Bawaba

“The future looks bright for the audio-visual industry with the market in the Middle East and Africa expected to be worth more than $3 billion by 2012,” says Alex Heuff, exhibition director of trade event PALME Middle East

“According to research conducted by InfoComm Academy, PALME's official education provider, the audio-visual industry's non-profit trade body, the regions experiencing the fastest growth have been identified as Latin America and Middle East and Africa,” Heuff adds.