On 28 July 2023, SMART Zambia Institute (SZI) conducted a stakeholder engagement workshop on the implementation of the Digital Transformation Centres Initiative in Ndola, Zambia, with the support of ITU and the Government of Norway through the Project "Boosting Digital Skills through Digital Transformation Centres".
From 19-21 July 2023, the Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) of the Philippines, with support from Cisco and the ITU-Norway-funded Project "Boosting Digital Skills through Digital Transformation Centres", conducted a training-the-trainer course on basic digital skills, in General Santos City, Philippines.
In July 2023, ITU and the UNDP Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (IICPSD) co-organised a number of train-the-trainer sessions on the HP-LIFE global training programme, as part of ITU and HP’s collaboration under the Digital Transformation Centres (DTC) Initiative.
The International Telecommunication Union and Cisco co-organized an Executive Roundtable discussion on the Digital Transformation Centres Initiative (DTCI) during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, on 28 February 2023. The session introduced the DTCI and aimed to lay the groundwork for the establishment of a global partnership where telecommunication companies come together and commit to supporting digital skills development and digital inclusion in underserved communities, under the Initiative.
The ‘Boosting Digital Skills through Digital Transformation Centres’ project funded by the Government of Norway and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), aims to serve citizens across Ghana’s underserved rural communities. Read more
New digital skills helped Benjamin John find a job. Now he hopes to help others participate in Papua New Guinea’s growing digital economy. Learn more about his story through the ITU blogpost and video.
ITU together with its partners, Cisco, Smart Zambia Institute and Airtel Zambia, joined forces to deliver digital skills training to 150 girls in underprivileged communities across three provinces in Zambia.
From 15-19 October 2018, the Rohde & Schwarz/ITU Academy workshop on "Implementation of radio monitoring systems according to ITU-R recommendations" was held in Singapore. Annually held at the Rohde & Schwarz headquarters in Munich since 2013, the ITU Academy reached Singapore shores for the first time to bring the joint workshop to participants in the Asia-Pacific. In partnership with ITU-D, ITU Academy is a workshop that the Monitoring and Network Testing division at Rohde & Schwarz conducts for regulatory agencies and institutions in developed and developing countries.
ITU and Wayfindr, a non-profit organization based in the United Kingdom, signed a cooperation agreement in August to deliver training on the design of audio-based navigation systems, which address the needs of persons with vision impairment.
From 25-29 June 2018, the Rohde & Schwarz/ITU Academy workshop on "Implementation of radio monitoring systems according to ITU-R recommendations" was held again at Rohde & Schwarz headquarters in Munich. Since 2013, this training workshop is repeatedly hosted by Rohde & Schwarz under the umbrella of ITU-D. The workshop is part of the ITU Academy training portfolio and conducted within the framework of a capacity-building partnership entered into between ITU and Rohde & Schwarz.