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.
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 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is supporting DTCs to implement a scalable, adaptable, and low-cost impact assessment methodology designed to address these barriers.