The Republic of Botswana No. 1 Ministry of State President Department of Broadcasting Services THE PROJECT FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DIGITAL MIGRATION PROJECT IN REPUBLIC OF BOTSWANA PROJECT COMPLETION REPORT AUGUST 2016 MINISTRY OF STATE PRESIDENT DEPARTMENT OF BROADCASTING SERVICES AND JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY (JICA) YACHIYO ENGINEERING CO., LTD. EI JR 16-137 Project Completion Report JICA Technical Cooperation Project DiMT Project Technology and Licensing WG Meeting with BOCRA for ISDB-T Standards EWBS demonstration in DBS (Oct, 2014) (Mar, 2015) Installation of receivers for demonstration Meeting for technical specifications for receivers (June, 2015) (Sep ,2015) Study tour for existing studio system Test centre activity (Feb, 2016) (June, 2016) i Project Completion Report JICA Technical Cooperation Project DiMT Project Public Relations WG (1/2) Digital broadcasting demonstration in DBS Digital broadcasting demonstration in Airport (Mar, 2015) Junction (Mar, 2015) Digital broadcasting demonstration in Main mall Media briefing for digital broadcasting (Mar, 2015) (April, 2015) Media briefing for digital broadcasting Digital broadcasting seminar in Gaborone (April, 2015) (April, 2015) ii Project Completion Report JICA Technical Cooperation Project DiMT Project Public Relations WG (2/2) Digital broadcasting seminar in Francistown Digital broadcasting demonstration in rail park mall (May, 2015) (June, 2015) Deigital broadasting demonstration in consumer fair Deigital broadasting demonstration in consumer fair (Aug, 2015) (Aug, 2015) Digital broadcasting seminar in Maun Digital broadcasting seminar in Serowe (Sep, 2015) (Oct, 2015) iii Project Completion Report JICA Technical Cooperation Project DiMT Project HD Program Production WG (1/2) Meeting with DFRR for edutaiment program HD program production of special feature news (Feb, 2015) (Mar, 2015) Meeting with DFRR for edutaiment program HD program production of special feature news (Apr. 2015) (April, 2015) Filming for edutaiment program Filming for edutaiment program (June, 2015) (June, 2015) iv Project Completion Report JICA Technical Cooperation Project DiMT Project HD Program Production WG (2/2) WG meeting for program production Post production for edutaiment program (Sep, 2015) (April, 2016) Preparation for Program production manual Preparation for Program production manual (May, 2016) (May, 2016) HD program production technical training HD program production technical training (June, 2016) (June, 2016) v Project Completion Report JICA Technical Cooperation Project DiMT Project Programing WG Programing WG meeting Market survey in shopping mall (Nov 2014) (Mar, 2015) Market survey in shopping mall (1) Market survey in shopping mall (2) (Apr, 2015) (Apr, 2015) Customer sample survey in school Customer sample survey in Hukuntsi (April, 2016) (April, 2016) vi Project Completion Report JICA Technical Cooperation Project DiMT Project Data Broadcasting WG Data broadcasting workflow meeting Preparation for program-linked data broadcasting (Feb, 2015) contents for live football game (Feb, 2015) Data broadcasting WG meeting Data broadcasting content production training (May, 2015) (June, 2015) Data broadcasting content production training Data broadcasting contents available (June, 2015) (July, 2016) vii Project Completion Report JICA Technical Cooperation Project DiMT Project Other Activity (1/2) 1St JCC meeting Kick-off meeting in DBS (Sep, 2014) (Oct, 2014) Kick-off meeting in BOCRA 2nd JCC meeting (Oct, 2014) (Mar, 2015) 3rd JTF meeting in Botswana 3rd JCC meeting (April, 2015) (Sep, 2015) viii Project Completion Report JICA Technical Cooperation Project DiMT Project Other Activity (2/2) 4th JCC meeting 5th JCC (April, 2016) (July, 2016) HD studio training in Japan HD studio training in Japan (Feb, 2015) (Feb, 2015) DTTB training Japan DTTB training Japan (Nov, 2015) (Nov, 2015) ix Project Completion Report JICA Technical Cooperation Project DiMT Project Republic of Botswana District Africa Customer Sample Survey/Kasane Filming(Fire drilling) / Kasane PR Seminar/ PR Seminar/ Francistown Ghanzi PR seminar/ Maun PR Seminar Customer Sample /Serowe Survey / Francistown Customer Sample Survey/ Project Site/Gaborone Hukuntsi PR Seminar/ Gaborone Filming(Sand Dune) / Khawa Customer Sample Survey / Gaborone Filming(Prosopis Plan) / Struizendam Project Location x Project Completion Report JICA Technical Cooperation Project DiMT Project Table of Contents Chapter I Basic Information of the Project ........................................................................................ 1-1 1.1 Country ........................................................................................................................................... 1-1 1.2 Title of the Project ........................................................................................................................... 1-2 1.3 Duration of the Project .................................................................................................................... 1-2 1.4 Background ..................................................................................................................................... 1-2 1.5 Overall Goal and Project Purpose .................................................................................................... 1-3 1.5.1 Project outline ......................................................................................................................... 1-3 1.5.2 Project Purpose and Outputs ................................................................................................... 1-4 1.5.3 Activities ................................................................................................................................. 1-6 1.5.4 Plan of Operation .................................................................................................................... 1-8 1.5.5 Project Implementation Structure ............................................................................................ 1-10 1.5.6 Project deliverables ................................................................................................................. 1-14 1.6 Implementation Agency .................................................................................................................. 1-15 Chapter II Results of the Project .......................................................................................................... 2-1 2.1 Results of the Project ....................................................................................................................... 2-1 2.1.1 Input by the Japanese side (Planned and Actual) ..................................................................... 2-1 2.1.1.1 Dispatch of Japanese Expert .............................................................................................. 2-1 2.1.1.2 Equipment .......................................................................................................................... 2-4 2.1.1.3 Training in Japan ................................................................................................................ 2-5 2.1.1.4 Project costs ....................................................................................................................... 2-11 2.1.2 Input by the Botswana side (Planned and Actual) ................................................................... 2-12 2.1.2.1 Counterpart ........................................................................................................................ 2-12 2.1.2.2 Project Office ..................................................................................................................... 2-13 2.1.2.3 Project Costs ...................................................................................................................... 2-13 2.1.3 Activities ................................................................................................................................. 2-15 2.1.3.1 Result of Activities related to Output 1: Various plans and systems necessary for Migration to Digital Broadcasting are developed .................................................................................... 2-15 2.1.3.2 Output 2: DBS’s Capacity of producing programs including High Definition (HD) and Data Broadcasting is improved. .................................................................................................. 2-53 2.1.3.3 Activities related to the whole project (Planned and Actual) .............................................. 2-87 2.2 Achievement of the Project ............................................................................................................. 2-100 2.2.1 Outputs and Indicators (Target values and actual values achieved at completion) ................... 2-100 2.2.1.1 Achievements of activities related to Output 1 ................................................................... 2-100 2.2.1.2 Achievement of activities related to Output 2 .................................................................... 2-101 2.2.2 Project Purpose and Indicators (Target values and actual values achieved at completion) ....... 2-103 2.3 History of PDM Modification ......................................................................................................... 2-105 2.3.1 PDM Version. 1 ....................................................................................................................... 2-108 xi Project