Two beneficiaries of the Digital Transformation Centres (DTC) Initiative took center stage at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC), held in Baku in November 2025, sharing powerful personal stories as Telecommunication Development Bureau BDT4Impact advocates.
The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), the DTC in Ghana, delivered a 10-day digital skills training programme for women SME owners in the Oti Region from 3 to 14 November 2025.
From 20 to 31 October 2025, the Uganda Institute of Information and Communications Technology (UICT), the DTC in Uganda, implemented a digital skills training programme for visually impaired citizens, as part of its activities under the DTC Initiative.
With the release of the five-year review of the DTC Initiative "Empowering communities through digital skills: Looking back, moving forward" (2020–2025), ITU and Cisco reflect on the Initiative’s success, the power of multi-stakeholder partnerships and cross-sectoral collaboration, as well as the lasting impact of investing in people’s digital capacities.
Bridge the Digital Divide Sierra Leone (BDD-SL), the DTC in Sierra Leone, conducted a digital literacy training programme targeting citizens with very little to no digital skills competencies.
From 8 to 12 September 2025, the Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA), the DTC in Rwanda, organised a 5-day digital literacy training programme for citizens, with support from ITU and Norway through the project “Boosting digital skills through Digital Transformation Centres”.
From July to September 2025, the DTC in Senegal (Concept) successfully rolled out a basic digital skills training programme for citizens, with support from ITU and Norway through the project “Boosting digital skills through Digital Transformation Centres”.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is supporting DTCs to implement a scalable, adaptable, and low-cost impact assessment methodology designed to address these barriers.
Since its inception, the Digital Transformation Centres (DTC) Initiative has provided over 500,000 – or half-a-million – beneficiaries with basic and intermediate digital skills training, with a female participation ratio of 54 per cent.
The Global DTC Workshop 2025 convened the DTC Initiative community and provided a platform for ITU, Cisco, the DTCs and DTCI partners to resume discussions on the implementation of the Initiative and explore ideas on how to continue moving forward together and moving forward better.