Tashkent
Uzbekistan
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The ITU Regional seminar for CIS countries on promoting and measuring Universal and Meaningful digital Connectivity (UMC) was held from 24 to 26 June 2024 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and provided an opportunity to explore the concept of UMC and how to streamline it in national digital policies, how to improve the statistical capacity of countries in the region to produce and disseminate relevant statistical data, and how to use the data to identify good practices and policy recommendations. This seminar was organized by ITU in collaboration with the Ministry of Digital Technologies of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
This Regional Seminar was intended for policymakers in charge of national policies and strategies in the field of digital connectivity, and executives and experts from ministries, national statistics offices (NSOs), regulators, telecom operators, research institutions, and other relevant organizations from the CIS countries responsible for measuring the development of telecommunications/ICTs.
Participants from national statistical offices and other institutions that collect data on ICT were invited to take the two following free, self-paced courses available through the ITU Academy, prior to the seminar:
“Measuring digital development: ICT access and use by households and individuals”
“Measuring digital development: Telecommunication / ICT indicators”.
It covered the following topics:
Embracing Universal and Meaningful Digital Connectivity: New Requirements for ICT Policies (day 1)
Data-driven decision-making: promoting collaboration between national digital and statistical services (day 2)
Monitoring Universal and Meaningful Digital Connectivity: Strategies for Solving Measurement Challenges (day 3)
The situation of ICT statistics in CIS countries at country and regional level (day 4)
Registration information
Unless specified otherwise, all ITU Academy training courses are open to all interested professionals, irrespective of their race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, economic status and other diverse backgrounds. We strongly encourage registrations from female participants, and participants from developing countries. This includes least developed countries, small island developing states and landlocked developing countries.