USTTI UNITED STATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS TRAINING INSTITUTE. Global Growth through Communications Sharing

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1 USTTI UNITED STATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS TRAINING INSTITUTE Global Growth through Communications Sharing

2 USTTI Background The USTTI is a public-private partnership that provides tuition-free training to developing country officials and entrepreneurs who build, regulate, and maintain the communications infrastructures in their countries. Training is conducted in the US by volunteer experts from US Government and industry. The USTTI was launched in 1982 at the Nairobi ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in response to legitimate concerns of developing country officials over the widening ICT gap between developed and developing countries. The challenge was to address the urgent need for quality ICT training without increasing U.S. payment to an ITU then dominated by European monopolist interests. The answer: creating the USTTI as a reverse mini-peace Corps program where developing country ICT officials and entrepreneurs travel to the U.S. for intensive tuition-free training conducted annually by hundreds of volunteer ICT experts from U.S. industry and the federal government. 2

3 USTTI GOALS USTTI was founded on one primary goal: to aggressively SHARE U.S. communications policy, management and technological advancements with women and men who are well positioned to lead their developing countries into an open, competitive ICT market that promotes economic development and democracy building throughout the developing world. No-strings-attached training No trade shows No propaganda No quid pro quo Only requirement of USTTI graduates is to participate fully in training and then aggressively share their new found knowledge with their colleagues when they return home to their developing country. 3

4 USTTI First training year: courses 134 graduates 62 developing countries served Over USTTI s 31 year history: 1,907 courses 8,979 USTTI graduates 171 developing countries served USTTI Africa Partnership 2778 graduates since graduates since 2003 Graduate from every African country 4

5 Federal Agencies Serving on USTTI Board Since its Inception (1982)* The USTTI is a unique public-private partnership by virtue of two bipartisan acts of congress Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986 The Acts jointly authorize full Board membership for the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the Department of Commerce, and the ranking State Department official charged with international ICT policy. Current USTTI federal Board Members FCC Chairman Thomas Wheeler NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling Ambassador Daniel Sepulveda, US Department of State CIO Director for USAID, Jerry Horton 5

6 Corporate Board Members Current Corporate Board Members AT&T Cisco Systems, Inc. Comcast Corporation Ericsson Facebook Google, Inc. GSM Association IBM Corporation Inmarsat, Inc. Intel Corporation Intelsat Global Service Corp. Internet Society (ISOC) Microsoft Corporation QUALCOMM Incorporated 21 st Century Fox Verizon Communications The Walt Disney Company USTTI corporate Board Members each contribute $35,000 a year to the USTTI s operating expenses for the USTTI s six-person staff. Board Members also provide at least one intensive training course a year in their facilities. USAID provides a minimal annual grant of $500,000 for travel and subsistence costs of applicants from the poorest developing countries. FY 2013 cash and in-kind support exceeded $4.5 million. 6

7 International Organizations Formally Partnering with the USTTI CITEL ( training statistics to date) Provided sponsorship for 66 scholars from 30 developing countries ITU ( training statistics to date) Provided sponsorship for 56 scholars from 23 developing countries 7

8 ITU WRC-12 and WCIT-12 Countries whose delegations were chaired or vice-chaired by USTTI Graduates: Albania Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Bosnia & Herzegovina Colombia Dominican Republic Egypt Estonia Ghana Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Haiti India Iraq Indonesia Jordan Kyrgyz Republic Liberia Lithuania Macedonia Madagascar Moldova Mongolia Morocco Nepal Nigeria Panama Philippines Russian Federation Rwanda Saudi Arabia Sierra Leone Slovak Republic Slovenia Sri Lanka Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Uganda Viet Nam 8

9 2013 Training Year core-courses: - Cybersecurity - Mobile Broadband - Content Development - Regulation and Privatization - Emergency Communications - Spectrum Management - ISP Workshop - Telehealth - Internet Technology - Broadcast Technology - Organizational Management 2013 Statistics (as of December 4) Course applications: 111,65 Individuals applied: 2,611 Countries applied: 123 9

10 2013 Special Initiatives US-CENTCOM Webinar Half-day webinar for officials from central region countries, organized in collaboration with State Department and US- CENTCOM. Webinar Topic: establishing CERTs and fostering coordination African Union (AU) Collaboration AU s ICT Week, December 2013 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Possible Consultation with the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Kosovo Primary focus: establishing a national CERT Announcement of Executive Visit in

11 Additional Special Initiatives over the Last 5 Years Executive Visit for Chairman Siray Timbo, National Telecommunications Commission of Sierra Leone. Ministerial Briefing Seminar for the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU). Analog to Digital Migration Workshop Women s Leadership Seminar Executive Visit for the Independent Communications Agency of South Africa (ICASA). Post-graduate alumni seminar in Kathmandu, Nepal, sponsored by Intel Corporation Executive training seminar for the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of Lebanon. Executive-level Cybersecurity Training Seminars for the governments of India and Nigeria. Analog to Digital Television Migration Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya WCIT-12 Preparatory Seminar Collaboration with Iraqi Council of Representative (CoR) 11

12 USTTI Take-Away Provides tuition-free cutting-edge training, which in most cases cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Responds quickly to developing world training needs. Empowers key decision makers. Trains the trainers. Establishes lasting relationships with developing country government officials and entrepreneurs. Gives priority admissions to female applicants and as a result, increases their leadership within the ICT sector. 12