developing countries in build ing institutional and organizational capacity through human resources management and development activities Besides its trad itional activities directed to promote training and development actions in the telecommunications and management fields the ITU is increasingly focusing on promoting the extensive use of information and communications technologies for distance- learning activities in developing countries Face-to-face learning has been our mainstay, but more and more,our training is delivered over the web. An important part of our offering is training the trainers. We prepare tutors to develop courses to be delivered online. The ITU also recognizes that with new modes of delivery, new paradigms of learning and emerging. So, at the receiving end also, those being trained have to deal with change management and attitude change There is also an emphasis on lifelong learning in fact, employee skills need to be constantly upgraded Since it would take a significant time to enumerate all these activities. I would like to underline the most relevant projects that the ITU is carry ing out through its Telecommunication Development Bureau The following are the most relev ant dedicated projects that the Itu is undertaking in order to help countries enhance their training and development capabil ity includ ing the production and delivery of high-level programs that must be appropriate not only in terms of their timing and delivery mechanisms, but also and most importantly-in terms of their subject specificity and telecommunication field orientation The ITU is presently carrying out 5 Centers of Excellence 2 Africa. I in America, I in Asia-Pacific and 1 in the arab region The purpose of these centers is to create regional networks of training and education-related institutions that would partner with other telecommunication-related organizations so as to combine resources aimed at strengthening the capac ity of a given region to develop know-how and expertise to meet the training needs of the telecommunication sector3 developing countries in building institutional and organizational capacity through human resources management and development activities. Besides its traditional activities directed to promote training and development actions in the telecommunications and management fields the ITU is increasingly focusing on promoting the extensive use of information and communications technologies for distance-learning activities in developing countries. Face-to-face learning has been our mainstay, but more and more, our training is delivered over the web. An important part of our offering is training the trainers. We prepare tutors to develop courses to be delivered online. The ITU also recognizes that with new modes of delivery, new paradigms of learning and emerging. So, at the receiving end also, those being trained have to deal with change management and attitude change. There is also an emphasis on lifelong learning in fact, employee skills need to be constantly upgraded. Since It would take a significant time to enumerate all these activities. I would like to underline the most relevant projects that the ITU is carrying out through its Telecommunication Development Bureau. The following are the most relevant dedicated projects that the ITU is undertaking in order to help countries enhance their training and development capability including the production and delivery of high-level programs that must be appropriate not only in terms of their timing and delivery mechanisms, but also and most importantly – in terms of their subject specificity and telecommunication field orientation. ⚫ The ITU is presently carrying out 5 Centers of Excellence 2 in Africa. I in America, 1 in Asia-Pacific and 1 in the Arab region. The purpose of these centers is to create regional networks of training and education-related institutions that would partner with other telecommunication-related organizations so as to combine resources aimed at strengthening the capacity of a given region to develop know-how and expertise to meet the training needs of the telecommunication sector