ITU Academy - GSMA Capacity Building Taster Session on Competition Policy in
the Digital Age
Port Vila, Vanuatu
9 July 2019
(14h30-17h00)
Programme overview
Within the framework of the ITU Academy, GSMA will offer a ‘taster’ training session for policy makers and regulators on Competition policy in the ICT/mobile sector. The taster training session will take place on 9 July 2019, in Vanuatu, from 14h30 to 17h00.
The session will be an introduction to the topic, based on content from the UK Telecoms Academy-accredited two-day course, Competition Policy in the Digital Age, which will be offered as an online course to policy makers and regulators through the ITU Academy later in 2019.
Delivered by a GSMA Competition Law expert trainer, the taster session will address several issues:
• The application of competition law as it applies to the telecommunications sector, especially abuse of dominance and merger control.
• The interaction between competition law and regulation, especially Significant Market Power (regulation)/Dominance (competition law).
• The treatment of the telecommunications sector in regulation and competition law with the situation in the wider communications ecosystem.
The training session will be delivered in English only and is intended for non executive participants from regulatory authorities and ICT ministries.
Competition policy in the Digital Era - GSMA Training
About the ITU Academy
The ITU Academy is the main online gateway to ITU’s capacity development activities. It brings together under one umbrella a wide range of training activities and knowledge resources in the field of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital development. The primary objective of the ITU Academy is to harmonize and integrate all ITU capacity development products and services. The ITU Academy was officially launched in October 2012, and has since established itself as the leading platform of all ITU capacity-building services.
The training portfolio offered under the umbrella of the ITU Academy ranges from general programmes for government policy makers and regulators, professional business-focused curricula for senior ICT executives and managers, to specialized programmes for technical and operational staff and accredited academic programmes. Courses are delivered online, face-to-face and through blended learning.
About the GSMA Capacity Building Programme
Policymakers and regulators play a key role in shaping the way the mobile industry delivers services to consumers. The GSMA closely tracks changes in technology, policy and regulation worldwide, and using this knowledge, has created a range of high quality, short training courses that offer unique insights into the latest industry, policy and regulatory thinking. These courses make up the GSMA Capacity Building training programme, designed exclusively for policymakers and regulators working in the field of telecommunications, to help tackle today’s most pressing mobile policy issues.
These tuition-free training courses are delivered both online and face-to-face, covering core topics such as Spectrum and Internet of Things to emerging topics such as 5G and Climate Change. Since the programme’s launch in 2013, it has delivered 10,000 + training days to participants from 151 countries, with more than 90% course satisfaction.
