This course provides a concise, non-technical overview of the technologies and infrastructures supporting telecommunications, broadcasting, and audio-visual services. It explores trends driving digital communications markets, emerging technologies, and their applications across sectors like agritech, fintech, and smart environments. Participants will gain a conceptual understanding of the digital technology landscape, market dynamics, and innovation, laying the groundwork for future-focused policy and regulation within a converging and competitive digital ecosystem.

This course is the first in a series of courses that focus on the design and implementation of smart cities. Many countries have begun to develop smart villages/towns/cities with varying degrees of success. This course provides an overview of aspects of smart cities to be considered when aiming to achieve this development. It focuses on the perspectives of the human element and the built environment, which includes buildings, street furniture, foliage, etc.

This course is designed to encompass the theory, the technology and field engineering aspects of fiber optic planning design and deployment by adopting new developments in the industry. This course offers participants a thorough understanding of the basic physics associated with fiber systems alongside their respective applications â encompassing optical transmitters/receivers, multiplexing and transmission characteristics.

This course covers strategic aspects of Internet governance and innovations, including technical, business and regulatory aspects. It covers the convergence of telecommunications to all-IP, including open Internet used for OTT services and NGN used by telecoms. Such convergence is driven by the development of fixed and mobile broadband (cable, optical, 5G), based on standards. In that way the course further covers broadband strategies and innovations as well as telecom standardization and policy.

Part A : SM for HF Systems 

The aim of this course is to obtain a working knowledge, and a sufficient understanding of spectrum management issues, areas and challenges for HF systems. Additionally, the aim is to obtain knowledge of the required technical and operational conditions applicable for HF systems for commercial and governmental purposes. 

Part B: Science Services

This 4.5-day training course provides essential steps and guidelines for designing effective cybersecurity exercises, focusing on the practical aspects of information security. During the course, participants will learn how to define objectives, choose appropriate approaches, design network topologies, create realistic scenarios, establish rules, select relevant metrics, and capture valuable lessons.

This face-to-face training course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of how digital technologies can revolutionize public service and governance. Through theoretical insights, practical examples from global initiatives and hands-on exercises, learners will explore strategies for implementing digital changes within their organization. This course aims to equip learners with the skills and knowledge to lead and participate in digital transformation effectively.

This course focuses on technical, business and regulatory aspects of QoS for Fixed and Mobile Networks. It includes QoS (Quality of Service) and QoE (Quality of Experience) fundamentals by ITU, as well as traffic and QoS management in Internet and IP networks. Further, it includes QoS for fixed ultra-broadband access, including QoS solutions in metallic and optical networks, carrier grade Ethernet QoS, as well as end-to-end QoS. The course also covers QoS for mobile ultra-broadband access, including 4G and 5G mobile technologies and their QoS capabilities and approaches.

As part of the project on capacity development to accelerate school connectivity under the umbrella of the ITU Academy and through the Giga Learning Hub, ITU will host a face to face training to introduce the methodology to measure gaps in ICT infrastructure and for connectivity business planning.  It aims to improve the theoretical and practical skills of participants in collecting ICT infrastructure data, identifying underserved areas, applying GIS tools, and using connectivity models to test and compare selected connectivity scenarios.