Micro-Enterprise Media Engine (MEME)
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Micro-Enterprise Media Engine (MEME)
- CSIR
- From South Africa
- Responsive
- Innovative Products and Technologies
Summary of the technology
The CSIR has developed a solution to deliver unbroken video streams over mobile networks from 2.5G (rural) – 4G (Wi-Fi) at data costs ranging from as low as R2 up to R50 per viewing hour.
Live streaming to mobile devices in rural and some peri-urban communities is problematic as buffering severely impacts the experience. Streaming at ultra-low data costs remains a challenge. In addition, the commercial television industry is dominated by large regional monopolies that own expensive delivery mechanisms, with few opportunities to create a new generation of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) global broadcasters.
The CSIR-developed Micro-Enterprise Media Engine (MEME) enables a broadcast manager to commission work from content creators, and to then upload, schedule and broadcast to audiences, while also connecting audiences to advertisers. “The solution has a low barrier to entry, and it is packaged into an offering as ‘broadcasting in a box’, suitable to enable media start-ups to become global broadcasters,” says CSIR chief engineer, Keith Ferguson.
The technology is well suited to closed-group broadcasting with social media interaction as the feedback mechanism. Closed groups would typically include corporate marketing, communications and training of a dispersed workforce, distance learning for universities or schools with students in low-income groups, community broadcasting in mining communities and others.
The MEME platform can benefit the information and communications technology corporate sector to host and develop applications that are customisable for the many market applications of this technology. “Of special interest is the inclusion of start-ups and SMMEs in partnership with the corporate sector,” says Ferguson.
Technology Field
Broadcasting, streaming
Business Opportunity
The CSIR-developed Micro-Enterprise Media Engine (MEME) enables a broadcast manager to commission work from content creators, and to then upload, schedule and broadcast to audiences, while also connecting audiences to advertisers.
Benefits & Advantages
The solution has a low barrier to entry, and it is packaged into an offering as ‘broadcasting in a box’, suitable to enable media start-ups to become global broadcasters.
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About CSIR
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, commonly known as the CSIR, is a world-class African research and development organisation established through an Act of Parliament in 1945. The CSIR undertakes directed, multidisciplinary research and technological innovation that contributes to the improved quality of life of South Africans.
The CSIR’s shareholder is the South African Parliament, held in proxy by the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation.
CSIR vision
We are accelerators of socio-economic prosperity in South Africa through leading innovation.
CSIR mission
Collaboratively innovating and localising technologies while providing knowledge solutions for the inclusive and sustainable advancement of industry and society.
CSIR values
CSIR values statement:
Our beliefs, principles and the impact we wish to make to improve the quality of life of South Africans are EPIC. Team CSIR pursues Excellence, celebrates People, personifies Integrity, and welcomes Collaboration.
Our mandate
“The objects of the CSIR are, through directed and particularly multi-disciplinary research and technological innovation, to foster, in the national interest and in fields which in its opinion should receive preference, industrial and scientific development, either by itself or in co-operation with principals from the private or public sectors, and thereby to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of the people of the Republic, and to perform any other functions that may be assigned to the CSIR by or under this Act.”
(Scientific Research Council Act 46 of 1988, amended by Act 71 of 1990)
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