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.
As part of the WSIS Forum events, ITU organized the Action Line C4 session on capacity building, which took place on Monday, March 19th. This year our theme was “Building ICT skills for social entrepreneurs”. The session was attended by around 50 participants.
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.
From 22 April to 9 May 2025, the Uganda Institute of Information and Communications Technology (UICT), the DTC in Uganda, conducted its first train-the-trainer programme on computer basics for the visually impaired, with support from ITU and the Government of Norway through the Project “Boosting Digital Skills through Digital Transformation Centres”, as well as ST Foundation.