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Digisoft TV Announces
T-Government R&D Contract with Italian Government
Other Topics:
IPTV Interactive Content,
Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH),
Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP),
Interactive IPTV
DigiSoft.tv
October 11, 2006
Milan, Italy -- DigiSoft.tv a leading provider of Interactive TV
Management Solutions and research tools -- today announced that
Lombardia Servizi, the technology division of the Regional
Government of Lombardia in Italy, have purchased and taken delivery
of DigiSoft's iTVBox product.
DigiSoft's iTVBox is a complete development solution that will
enable Lombardia Servizi to rapidly design and develop interactive
government applications so-called T-Government applications for free
to air digital television in Italy. Lombardia Informatica, the
technology division of the Regional Government of Lombardia have
been involved in a number of T-Government projects as part of the
Italian Governments drive to make government services available to
Italian citizens via interactive Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT).
By developing the applications using the iTVBox and the Digital
Video Broadcasting (DVB) standard of Multimedia Home Platform (MHP)
a multitude of local government services can be made available on
free to air TV in the form of interactive T-Government applications.
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"The take up of DTT
in Italy has been very strong; there are now over four million
families in Italy watching free to air digital TV," said Fintan Mc
Kiernan, Senior Vice President Sales at DigiSoft.tv. "As almost all
of the DTT Set Top Boxes in Italy are MHP enabled it means that all
of these families can utilise these new services from the comfort of
their armchair at home. "
"Interactive TV is changing the way people interact with their
Government. The Digisoft Platform will help to make government
services more accessible and more user friendly," said Antonio Lasi,
General Manager of Lombardia Informatica. "It's easy to imagine,
that people would much prefer to submit a government application
from the comfort of their own home by simply using their remote
control and their TV, rather than losing half a day crossing town to
wait in line to perform the same operation."
By using DigiSoft's iTVBox, Lombardia Servizi will have a complete
in house capability to develop their own citizen centric
T-Government applications, which they can then launch on free to air
local or national TV channels. Lombardia Informatica have also
joined DigiSoft's international developer group which will allow
them to tap in to and share interactive TV development capabilities
with a wider research and development community across the globe.
About DigiSoft
DigiSoft Limited, with offices in Ireland, Italy and USA is a
leading software provider of Interactive TV Management solutions to
Cable TV, Telecoms and Wireless Operators. Over the past six years
the company's flagship product, DigiHost, has been developed with a
suite of applications to support Multi-media Home Platform (MHP)
Open Cable (OCAP) and IPTV deployments. Customers and Partners
include Comcast, Cox, RTV 38, Mediaset, Czech Telecom and Sun
Microsystems.
For more information on Digisoft and the DigiHost Platform, please
go to www.digisoft.tv To order or learn more about iTV Box, please
go to www.itvbox.org
For any other information, or to schedule an interview, please
contact:
Glenda Vitali
Phone +39 338 1646059
E-mail: gvitali@digisoft.tv
About Gruppo Lombardia Informatica
Lombardia Informatica is a government company created in December
1981 by Lombardy Region. Its mission is to operate trough all
technologies and resources to optimise the relationship between
Public offices and citizens. On June 2004, Lombardia Informatica
established a new company: Lombardia Servizi. The aim of the
innovative company is to design and develop information technology
systems and services for Lombardy Region. Lombardia Servizi offers
it's know - how to guarantee the quality of its technological
solutions and services and also for the new projects developments.
Lombardia Servizi develops projects in different sectors of the
regional activities like culture, territory, environment, public
health, budgeting and programming. |
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