Implementation Reports on IPDC Projects Approved in 2009 - Unesco

PROJECT IMPLEMENTED BY THE BAMAKO CLUSTER OFFICE
NATIONAL PROJECT
GUINEA: DIGITIZATION OF THE RADIO TÉLÉVISION GUINÉENNE'S (RTG)
AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES AND TRAINING IN THEIR MANAGEMENT AND USE
BUDGET CODE: 354 GUI 5081
US$ 23 000
NATURE OF THE PROJECT
The RTG currently holds more than 30,000 hours of images and sound in its archives. Practically all of the
documents are recorded on analogue media, and therefore inaccessible using modern production techniques, for
the most part based on digital technology. The urgent need to convert the audiovisual archives from analogue to
digital form was the focus of the project submitted to the IPDC, which aimed to create an appropriate system for
saving and managing the archives of RTG through the use of ICTs by journalists.
IMPLEMENTATION
Implementing the project entailed building human and technical capacity within the RTG through: the
acquisition of digitization equipment, training technicians in archive digitization, training producers/directors in
the use of archive content.
RESULTS
� Computer equipment purchased and installed;
� Media-player equipment purchased and installed;
� 20 digitizers trained in audiovisual document acquisition, labelling, analysis and indexation.
CONCLUSION
The implementation of the project was severely disrupted by the socio-political environment in the country. The
frequent changes at the head of the RTG and the climate of political instability did not allow the training for
journalists on the use of digital archives to take place.
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