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It is an ITU Development Sector initiative intended to assist developing countries by making available ICT education and training opportunities at the highest possible levels of quality. In cooperation with numerous partners, ITU Academy today delivers education and training opportunities around the globe through face-to-face events and distance learning

Center of Excellence project The ITU centers of excellence initiative strengthens institutional capacity to deliver know-how and expertise in specialized telecommunication and ICT training. ITU goal is a global cooperative network of the institutions and partners sharing training experts and resources

CoE Advisory Committee members in Arab States 4 Nodes Leaders Representatives: (Egypt-Syria-Morocco-Bahrain) 4 Sub-regional Representatives (Saudi Arabia-Jordan-Tunisia-Sudan) The coordinator of the Center of Excellence in the Arab Regional office and a representative from the Human Resources office in the International Telecommunication Union

Center of Excellence in Arab States COE/ARB Coordinator/ ITU Arab Regional Office NODE 1 Telecom Policies and Regulation NODE 2 New Technologies and Services NODE 3 Rural Communications NODE 4 Business Management

Main and Supportive Nodes Program Supportive Maim Node New Technologies and Services CERT Tunisia NTI Egypt Telecom Policies and Regulations MCIT Jordan ANRT Morocco Rural Communications NTC Sudan STE Syria Business Managements ----- GA Bahrain

ITU/ARO 2010 Center of Excellence Action Plan

4th Advisory Committee Meeting of the Center of Excellence (CoE-ARB) Activity Venue Date 4th Advisory Committee Meeting of the Center of Excellence (CoE-ARB) Tunisia End of November Telecom Policies and Regulatory Issues Program: Interconnection Problems Workshop Morocco April Development of Competitiveness Policies Workshop Jordan June Convergence and Unified Licensing Workshop Algeria New Services and Technologies Program: Broadband Network Workshop Quality of Services for Wireless Communication Systems Workshop Nov. IPv6 Egypt 4-6 July Business Management Program: Project Management for ICT Implementation Workshop Egypt (TE) 4-6 May New Trends in Telecom Marketing Workshop ---------- October Rural Connectivity and Universal Service Program: Wireless Broadband Internet Access in Rural Areas Workshop Syria Connectivity in Rural services Sudan March E-readiness for Rural Areas Workshop July On-Line Courses: VoIP With NTI Egypt 18 April to 18 May Regulation Versus Governance Q4

4G Wireless Systems workshop 27-29 January 2010 Hammamat/ Tunisia With cooperation with CERT/Tunisia In frame of New Technologies and Services Programme CoE/ARB

ITU experts for 4G workshop Prof. Lazhar Belhouchet Mr. Hakim Ebdelli

Draft Agenda (1st Day) Registration Official Opening Morning Session SUBJECT TIME Wednesday 27 Jan. Registration & Distribution of documents 09:00 – 09:30 Registration Welcoming Speeches ITU ARO Representative ( Mrs. Nefertiti Ali) Host Representative ( Mr. -----------) 09:30 – 09:45 Official Opening CoE in Arab States ( Mrs. Nefertiti Ali ) 09:45 – 10:00 Session 1: Evolution path towards 4G ( Mr Hakim EBDELLI) 10:00 – 11:00 Morning Session Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:30 Session 2: Potential and application for broadband services (Mr Lazhar Belhouchet) (Mr Hakim EBDELLI) Panel Discussion 11:30 – 13:30 13:30 – 15:00 Lunch Session 3: LTE Overview – design targets and multiple access technologies 15:00 – 17:00 Afternoon

28 January (2nd Day) Morning Session Lunch Afternoon SUBJECT TIME Thursday 28 Jan. Session 3 (cont.) : LTE Overview – design targets and multiple access technologies ( Mr Hakim EBDELLI) Panel Discussion 09:00 – 10:00 Morning Session Session 4: LTE Network Architecture (Mr Lazhar Belhouchet) 10:00 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:30 Session 5: LTE technology Performance Evaluation Panel discussion 11:30 – 13:30 13:30 – 15:00 Lunch Session 6 (cont.): Mobility and Session management ( Mr Lazhar Belhouchet) 15:00 – 17:00 Afternoon

29 January Morning Session (3rd Day) Lunch SUBJECT TIME Friday 29 Jan. Session 7: Air link setup in LTE system. ( Mr Lazhar Belhouchet) Panel Discussion 09:00 – 11:00 Morning Session Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:30 Evaluation, Final Report and Certificates awarding 11:30 – 12:30 13:30 – 15:00 Lunch

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