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Like the rest of the world, most Caribbean governments have developed national ICT strategies, as part of their national agenda, to transition to knowledge-based societies using ICTs. In this regard e-government has become a familiar form of service delivery to citizens, businesses and other key stakeholders. Even so, do senior public servants really understand the many functions and roles of ICTs?
This course will focus on Security and Quality of Service (QoS) in Internet network from technology, regulation and business aspects. It will cover Internet fundamentals, including Internet protocols and architectures, Internet security standards and approaches as defined by IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), as well as ITU's security architectures for end-to-end communications. Further, the course will incorporate cybersecurity approaches from the ITU viewpoint, and security aspects of emerging cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT).
El objetivo principal de este Programa es la formación y capacitación de funcionarios del sector público de los países de América Latina en lo que se refiere al funcionamiento y la regulación de Internet y de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación a partir de una perspectiva regional.
The interest in cloud services has grown rapidly over the last few years. It is reported that public spending on the procurement of cloud services is estimated to have reached USD 107 billion by the year 2017. The rapid development of cloud services is driven by cloud characteristics, such as: elasticity, scalability, universal access, low entry cost, flexible and adjustable billing and easy metering.
Internet and IP protocol is the winning technology in current telecommunications world. âOver IPâ is the concept that can be considered in the context of almost all todayâs telecommunications services. Good understanding of this âIP worldâ requires not only knowledge of technical aspects, of the IP technology, but also strategic, political business issues.
The course aims at presenting the current process of innovations in Internet from all of these important perspectives.
Internet and IP protocol is the winning technology in current telecommunications world. Over IP is the concept that can be considered in the context of almost all todays telecommunications services. Good understanding of this IP world requires not only knowledge of technical aspects, of the IP technology, but also strategic, political business issues. The course aims at presenting the current process of innovations in Internet from all of these important perspectives.