RTVE achieves the 2023 IBC Award for Social Impact

This Sunday, IBC 2023 paid tribute to the projects that are transforming the media sector with the delivery of its 2023 Innovation and Social Impact Awards. The use of Artificial Intelligence by RTVE for coverage of the municipal elections has earned it recognition from the industry.

The IBC Innovation Awards, which recognize collaborative efforts to create new solutions that address real-world challenges, were announced at an early afternoon event at the IBC Premium Lounge in Amsterdam.

In the category of content creation, IBC has awarded its award to the British BBC and its partners for the world's largest emerging autonomous non-public 5G network for live broadcast contributions using shared spectrum, deployed for the Coronation of King Charles III.

Sky Group For its cloud-native software broadcast platform for the creation of linear content television channels in all European territories, it has won the Content Distribution Award.

In the so-called 'Content Everywhere' category, the winner was CAN, which changed the way Israel viewed the Qatar 2022 World Cup and Eurovision 2023 with Sport BUFF's real-time interactive participation.

Social Impact

The winners in the three categories of the IBC 2023 Social Impact Awards been RTVE, SWI swissinfo.ch and Iron Mountain.

In the case of RTVE, the Spanish Corporation has achieved the award in recognition of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide information coverage in the last municipal elections. Thanks to this project, RTVE managed to create thousands of news stories on election night, generated automatically and immediately, but supervised by journalists and professionals from different areas of RTVE to adapt the content to the style and format of the Corporation.

In the last municipal and regional elections, from 9:10 p.m. on election night on May 28 until the following week, more than 12 batches of news generations were completed to refresh the data and have the latest information, each of them containing 4,941 news items, the number of populations covered.

There were a total of 59,052 news stories structured and based on natural language, a figure that demonstrates the depth and scope of the information and the importance of having the power of the “machine” to reach where traditional coverage is not capable since the information and content covered are not, in quantity or detail, the usual ones.

In, diversity and inclusion, SWI swissinfo.ch has been recognized for its work in introducing a data-driven process to evaluate the use of inclusive language in its multilingual digital newsroom.

The data centers of Iron Mountain, who are on track to use clean, locally sourced electricity 100% of the time to make their operations carbon-free, have received the IBC Environment and Sustainability Award.