The Digital Ecosystem Capacity Building (CE-Digital) programme took the opportunity on 22 June at the Latin American Telecommunication Congress 2016 (CLT 2016) in Cancun, Mexico, to host the workshop “Competition Policy in the Digital Age”, delivered by telecommunications expert Ernesto Flores-Roux. The workshop was attended by more than 60 participants including regulatory bodies members, policy makers and digital ecosystem players from El Salvador, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Panama, Mexico, Honduras, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Guatemala.
To reach a larger number of participants, CE-Digital recently launched the programme’s new e-learning portal. The free online courses provided for Information and Communications (ITC) regulators and policymakers through this platform will cover the latest developments in the telecommunication industry and its public policy and regulatory frameworks.
CE-Digital is an initiative organised by CAF – Development Bank of Latin America, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in its role as technical secretariat of eLAC, and the GSMA. The programme aims to provide training opportunities to ICT regulators and policymakers from countries in the region.
Participants in the launch of the e-learning portal included Sandra Conde, Director of Analysis and Sectoral Programming, CAF; Mauricio Agudelo, Senior Specialist Telecom, CAF; Sebastian Cabello, GSMA Head of Latin America; and Alejandro Patiño, Coordinator of the Regional Broadband Observatory, eLAC. All of them highlighted the significant contribution of this initiative, which will allow regulators and policymakers across the region to receive training in the most important topics of the industry from their desktops.
The first online course available will be “Internet Governance Principles”, from 18 July to 14 August. Registration for this course is now open at www.cedigital.org. Courses are free of charge and the only requirement is that participants must be representatives from government or regulatory entities. In addition, participants will receive a certificate of accreditation on completion of their course.