The second meeting of the GCBI was held in Missenden Abbey, United Kingdom, from 21-22 October 2013. The meeting was at the kind invitation of the Chairman of the GCBI, also Chairman of the United Kingdom Telecommunications Academy (UKTA), Professor David Mellor.

The first meeting of the Group on Capacity Building Initiatives (GCBI) was successfully held in Geneva from 30 April to 01 May 2012. The meeting was attended by the representative experts of various regions and Human Capacity Building Division staff members at the ITU headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.