OREANDA-NEWS. October 22, 2009. Presentation week devoted to 75 anniversary of the university took place at Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi. New project on creation of information-entertaining and education media resource based on new media use has been presented in a new Internet center of KazNU. Broadcasting by means of television signal transfer by Internet protocol iD TV from Kazakhtelecom JSC is in plans of University Vision student project, reported the press-centre of Kazakhtelecom.

As known, Kazakhtelecom JSC, the leading Kazakhstan telecoms operator is actively works on creation of attractive conditions for development of Kazakhstan Internet segment, also promotes an absolutely new services, based on IP-networks development technologies. Thus, creation of high quality and in demand content stays an actual tendency. 

Project "Kepter" from "University vision" is the project on creation of youth information -entertaining and educational media resource, based on “new media” technologies use (Indoor TV, IDTV, Internet, Bluetooth Lightbox), also active attraction of students and teachers of Kazakh institutions to content creation. The project is performed at support of the Ministry of Education and Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Council for youth affairs at President. Team of University Vision will collect and gather materials provided for further broadcasting.

On base of 12 High Educational Institutions of Almaty and all Republic in the future network Indoor TV "University vision" will be widely used. This network represents TV sets, located in public places (halls, cafeterias, buffets, Internet cafes etc) and broadcasting in "HD 720p". Broadcasting will be made by means of iD TV of Kazakhtelecom JSC and cable networks. Broadcasting of content on base of institutions will be from 08.00 a.m. to  20.00 p.m. in Kazakh and Russian.

- Forms and methods of communication change with technologies development. At that the factor that content created by users themselves (user generated content) is important. Thus, student television can become actual youth socialization means. Use of innovational technologies will highlight this project and make it popular, thus our company supports this project, - says Mr.Askar Yesserkegenov, Chief Sales Manager for Kazakhtelecom JSC.    
  
As it is known, iD TV uses television signal transfer technology by Internet protocol, that helps to realize the functions that have been prior inaccessible. iD TV allows independently controlling the services such as: hook up to extended services, order movies and education content proposed by University Vision (video lectures etc) and watch it on TV screen. It is planned that University Vision will be presented in ID TV as a separate channel as files archive, which can be ordered.

It shall be noted, that content will be presented on different advert constructions, particularly using newest intelligent Bluetooth light boxes, assigned for different content transfer to students and teachers by Bluetooth technology (audio and video files, static images, text files, JAVA –applications etc). The following content can be transferred by means of intelligent light box: professors’ and teachers’ video blogs as short subcastes, schematic tables and schedules (additions to lectures), important news, video and audio instructions (for entrants), presentations of student organizations, text files of lectures etc.

- Our team is young group of ex-students. Student life is life fill of events, which can be  showed by means of new media. If it were wall newspapers, printed papers, today with the help of new technologies we can support both entertainment as educational projects, - says Mr.Timur Yessenov, Executive Director for University Vision. – Within the project "Kepter" we plan to organize the largess in Kazakhstan network. It is the synthesis of social network, video service and information portal. This portal will differ from other resources by availability of methodic manuals of all institutions of Republic of Kazakhstan in open access for students and teachers, including for preparing to sessions and different lectures and presentations in audio and video format. Section containing methodic material for preparing to Common National Test will be created separately.    

Mobile stand with four plasma monitors where any person can familiarize with new project and get additional information on iD TV will be placed on presentation in KazNU named after Al-Farabi.