Broadcasting
EbonyLifeTV, SUMMVIEW Launch Platform Dedicated to African Content
At the occasion of the 1st edition of the DISCOP in Abidjan, EBONYLIFE TV is proud to announce a strategic partnership with which enables the launch of a Premium multi-screen VOD platform.
Thanks to this service already accessible on mobile application and online platforms, EBONYLIFE TV offers the African Diaspora users the ability to access from their smartphones, tablets or laptops, unique Africa-made on-demand content.
Users can download the application, EBONYLIFE TV, on Apple Store and Google Play Store and/or go tovod.ebonylifetv.com, with additional option to subscribe for a month or a year.
The availability of video on smartphones, tablets and laptops relies on the platform developed by SUMMVIEW.
With a few clicks, users access from the terminal, a catalog of Nigeria-made on demand videos.
“We at EbonyLife TV are very excited that our teeming audiences in the Diaspora can now catch up on EbonyLife TV on-the-go! With this Premium SVOD platform, EBONYLIFE TV expands its range of services and mobile applications and provides the African Diaspora subscribers, outside of Africa, an innovative offering of premium quality content made in Nigeria for the World. The ‘one stop shop’ offer of SUMMVIEW allowed mastering the costs and securing the roll-out,” said Ms. Mo Abudu, executive chairman and CEO of EBONYLIFE TV.
Denis Pagnac, CEO SUMMVIEW said, “SUMMVIEW is pleased to deploy its Premium VOD Platform for EbonyLife TV. The SUMMVIEW Content Delivery Solution (S-CDS), a SaaS platform proposed in white label, is designed to meet the specific needs of each client, allowing EbonyLife TV to propose its unique catalog of African content, efficiently and cost-effectively to a worldwide audience.”
EbonyLife TV, Africa’s first Global Black Entertainment and Lifestyle network, was launched on the 1st July 2013, to a pan-African audience, by a license agreement with Multichoice (DStv) Africa, Africa’s largest Pay TV platform.
The channel is distributed to 49 African countries, including South and Southern African.
Ranked 24 out of a total of 137 channels on the platform, EbonyLife TV is focused at the African youth, aged 18 to 34, annually providing over 1000 hours of premium, original, and homegrown Anglo-African entertainment programming ranging from Talk, Reality, Comedy, Drama, Factual, among others. Distribution wise, EbonyLife TV also sits on the Talk Talk platform in the UK and it has equally signed agreements to distribute to Canada, with ongoing discussions with Virgin Media in the UK as well as other platforms in the UAE, the Caribbean and the US.
In partnership with the Walt Disney Company the channel has produced Desperate Housewives Africa, based on the multiple awards winning ABC Television drama hit series, Desperate Housewives.
And, founded in 2012, SUMMVIEW is a company specializing in the development of applications and multimedia services (audio / video in particular) for smartphones, tablets, connected TVs, OTT and its hybrid box Mobile/DVB-T.
In order to offer its customers (TV and Radio channels, movie studios, Mobile Telephony Operators, etc.) a white label solution, SUMMVIEW has set up an end-to-end infrastructure (Headend, encoding, storage, streaming, display) for an optimized distribution of live or on demand content, in multi-vendor environments (iOS, Android, Windows).
SUMMVIEW makes video distribution simpler, faster and affordable.
Registered in France, SUMMVIEW offers services around the world, with a special focus on Africa. BBLACK, VIACOM, TRACE, France Media Monde, Moov (Etisalat) and MTN are among its customers.
The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) in collaboration with Musical CopyrightSociety of Nigeria (MCSN) organised a stakeholders’ engagement and awareness event in Kaduna on November 20, 2024.
The event, themed “Enjoy Music, Respect Copyright, Protect your Business,” according to the State Coordinator, NCC Kaduna office Mrs Rukayya Yeldu was aimed at educating music users about copyright laws and the importance of paying royalties to support musicians in the creative industry.
Mrs. Yeldu in her address at the event noted that copyright laws help protect the livelihood of musicians and other stakeholders while emphasising that paying royalties is both a legal and moral duty for business operators in the creative sector.
Director-General, MCSN Mr. Mayowa Ayilaran in his presentation spoke about MCSN’s role in the creative sector and encouraged business owners to obtain proper licences for the music they use.
Public trust in government has been lagging for years but new Salesforce research reveals AI agents could help rebuild it.
Constituents around the world agree there’s room for improvement when it comes to government service. Forty percent struggle with government interactions, and over a third are unsure of available programs. However, the research indicates overwhelming public support for AI solutions — with 90% of global constituents saying they’d use an AI agent to engage with their government.
The arrival of AI agents presents governments with an exciting opportunity to strengthen public trust by streamlining services and speeding up response times. And in the face of tightening budgets, agents can augment public servants and better serve their constituents — without having to add headcount.
“It is clear from our research that there is a need for AI solutions like Salesforce’s Agentforce that help governments streamline and scale services to better meet the needs of their constituents,” said Nasi Jazayeri, EVP and GM of Public Sector at Salesforce.
“As global leaders gather in Davos, we have a tremendous opportunity for the public and private sectors to come together and explore how major advancements in technology like AI agents can improve how governments support citizens.”
Public calls for improved government service
40% say it’s difficult to interact with the government when they have questions or need help.
Less than half of survey respondents find it easy to understand what public services (42%) and public assistance programs (46%) are available to them.
Top service delivery improvements desired by global constituents include:
Reducing the number of steps to address needs
Responding to their needs faster
Constituents eager to engage with agents
90% of global respondents said they’d use an AI agent to interact with the public sector.
Constituents in Brazil, Spain, Singapore, and Italy are among the most willing to use AI agents to interact with the public sector, providing these countries with the opportunity to be trailblazers in the agentic AI era.
20% of German and American respondents say they’re very likely to use an AI agent to help fill out government forms (e.g. filing taxes, completing applications).
Three factors global respondents said they prioritised when considering using AI agents in the public sector:
24/7 access to information and services (47%)
Helping them efficiently access government resources (44%)
Reducing the number of websites and steps needed to address their needs (40%)
The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has expressed its commitment to partner with the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) for the creation of a robust Intellectual Property (IP) Policy tailored for Polytechnics and Technical Institutions across Nigeria.
This collaboration was agreed upon during a courtesy visit by the Director-General, NCC, Dr. John O. Asein to the Executive Secretary NBTE, Prof. Idris Muhammad Bugaje, in Abuja. The visit aimed to enlighten NBTE on the mandate of Commission and areas of possible collaboration.
Dr. Asein, represented at the meeting by Director Nigerian Copyright Academy (NCA), Mrs. Funmi Adewale and Director Planning Research and Statistics (PRS), Mr. Collins Nweke, emphasised the importance of a functional IP Policy and the need to incorporate Copyright Education into the curriculum of Technical Institutions.
The ES-NBTE who was represented by the Director, Abuja Liaison Office, Dr. Yahaya Bande gave assurances that the proposed partnership will yield results and lauded NCC’s initiatives of raising public awareness about IP and Copyright, emphasising that such efforts are crucial for enhancing the nation’s economic development.
The Commission’s representatives presented copies of the Commission’s publication “What Is Copyright” and “Copyright Act 2022” to the Executive Secretary, NBTE.
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