1. ITU
Center of Excellence

2. ITU in brief Leading United Nations Agency for ICTs.
191 Member States, 700 Sector Members
Three sectors:
Radiocommunication
Standardization
Development
ITU TELECOM Events 2 2

3. ITU’s Global Presence 5 regional offices, 8 area offices
HQ in Geneva, Switzerland 3

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. ITU/ARO
2010 Center of Excellence
Action Plan

11. 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

12. 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

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17.
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