Henrikas Juškevičius (born 1935 in

Šiauliai Šiauliai (; bat-smg, Šiaulē; german: Schaulen, ) is the fourth largest city in Lithuania, with a population of 107,086. From 1994 to 2010 it was the capital of Šiauliai County. Names Šiauliai is referred to by various names in different la ...

, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian electrical engineer and journalist who has held the title of Adviser of the Director-General of

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on Communication, Information and Administration issues since 2001.

Biography

Juškevičius graduated from the

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

Electrotechnical Communication Institute with a degree in

radiocommunication Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ...

s and

broadcast engineering Broadcast engineering is the field of electrical engineering, and now to some extent computer engineering and information technology, which deals with radio and television broadcasting. Audio engineering and RF engineering are also essential ...

. He worked at the Lithuanian Television Centre from 1958 to 1960, and was head of the technological department of Lithuanian television and radio from 1960 to 1966. In this capacity, he led the development of Lithuanian television and radio infrastructure. He joined the Union of Journalists in 1966. In 1966, he was designated the director of the Technical Centre at the International Radio and Television Organization (OIRT - Intervision), headquartered in

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, a position he held until 1971. During this time, he helped develop television news exchanges between Intervision and Eurovision. In 1968, he became a member of the Eurovision and Intervision Operations Group and a member of the Television Commission of the

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; for the latter work, he was awarded the Silver Order of the International Olympic Committee. During the 1970s and 1980s, Juškevičius served as Vice-Chairman of the

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State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting, as chairman of the Interministerial Committee for Radio and Television Development and as a member of the Interministerial Committee for Satellite Communication. In September 1990 he became involved with UNESCO, playing a leading role in the implementation of UNESCO's new communication strategy in the interest of freedom of the press, pluralism, and strengthening the communication capacities of developing countries, and overseeing the restructuring of the Secretariat. Juškevičius is a member of the International Academy of Electrotechnical Sciences, the Russian Academy of Information, the

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, and the International Institute of Communications, the vice-president of the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio, and the vice-president of the Baden-Baden Foundation. He has been awarded with a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Canadian International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.

References

WITFOR 2005: Social, Ethical, and Legal Aspects/Commissioners and Chairs
World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR) 2005. Accessed September 24, 2007.
Lithuania (133) UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme Progress Report

, 2005. Accessed September 25, 2007. Lithuanian journalists Lithuanian engineers People from Šiauliai Soviet engineers Living people 1935 births {{Lithuania-journalist-stub