Knowledge Partner
Supporting Associations
Formed in 1996 the UMTS Forum is an international industry association committed to the success of Third Generation (3G) UMTS mobile systems. Bringing together players from across the mobile industry on a peer-to-peer basis, the UMTS Forum promotes a common vision of 3G/UMTS and its Long Term Evolution as well as its worldwide commercial success. Membership of the UMTS Forum is open to all organisations with a commercial interest in 3G/UMTS mobile - including fixed and mobile network operators, infrastructure vendors, terminal device manufacturers, regulators, media/content providers and developers of 3G/UMTS services and applications.
The dotMobi Advisory Group (MAG) is a dotMobi accredited independent not-for-profit industry forum with the goal of ensuring that the dotMobi Top Level Domain (.mobi) is operated in the best interests of the global dotMobi community and the Internet at large. The MAG enables its members to keep in touch with market trends to understand, assess and prioritise the needs of the mobile internet community and acts as a vehicle for mobile stakeholders to network and discuss issues contributing towards the betterment of the mobile experience. Please visit advisorygroup.mobi.
The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) is an international development partnership between Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth governments, business and civil society organisations. It provides the international community with effective means to help bridge the digital divide and achieve social and economic development, by delivering to developing countries unique knowledge-sharing programmes in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the specific areas of Telecommunications, IT, Broadcasting and the Internet.
The work of the CTO goes back to its creation in 1901 as the Pacific Cable Board. Since then, the CTO has been at the centre of continuous and extensive international communications development funding, co-operation and assistance programmes. Since 1985, the organisation has delivered to its recipient members in Europe, the Caribbean, Americas, Africa and Asia-Pacific regions, over 3,500 bilateral and multilateral telecommunications and ICT capacity-building projects in the form of policy, operational and regulatory training and expert assistance.
This long history as a development agency provides the organisation with a unique and growing delivery capacity of ICT-for-development programmes and services. Recently, the CTO has significantly reviewed its mandate to reflect and respond to today’s global development challenge as set in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Today, our mission is to offer the highest quality programmes for capacity development, knowledge sharing and information services, expand and diversify partnerships between governments, business and other organisations to reduce global poverty and fulfil the global development agenda for ICT. We do this by helping to bridge the digital divide within the Commonwealth and beyond in the key sectors of food and agriculture, education, health, e-government and e-commerce.
