London — This week adds one more African country, Benin, to the list that are making progress with implementing DTT. The interview below with Aurelie Adam Soulé, Minister of Digital and Digitization lays out what has been achieved so far.
Q: The Council of Ministers adopted in its meeting of Wednesday February 10, the decree appointing the members representing the Government on the Board of Directors of Société Bénin Diffusion (SBD). What is the significance of this decision for the digital switchover in Benin?
A: It is part of the implementation of this structure which will be responsible for broadcasting DTT TV programmes to Beninois households. With DTT, the value chain changes. There is no longer a concentration of the functions of multiplexing, production, editing and distribution, within the same structures.
The value chain is more distributed with publishers and…
