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Shown here with a group from Tashkent University, Lyudmila Bujoreanu and Lynne Gallagher [on the lower right], made the program happen. Lyudmila is a native of Tashkent with a very sound working knowlege of the University of Tashkent. Lynne is the President of Telecom / Telematique. She has a very broad understanding of the Telecommunications Industry as a whole, and is the visionary for this program, with many years of distance learning experience, and a heartfelt concern for women around the world.
Lynne co-authored the book "Telecommunications in Action", which discusses in detail how our world can be made better by using and understanding telecommunications. This section of the book of examines what telecoms can do to
further the goal of education for all in the developing world.
T/TI is an international telecommunications consulting, training, and research firm established in 1987. It pioneered distance learning in telecommunications in 1989, conducting semester-length university-level courses in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Central/Eastern Europe.
T/TI conducted the Feasibility Study for the Women's Training in Telecommunications and IT at Tashkent University for Information Communication Technologies (TUIT) in Uzbekistan. As part of that process,
T/TI established Strategic Partnerships with SUN Microsystems to provide the equipment and software for the Center and remote sites, the University of Colorado interdisciplinary telecom program to provide courses by distance learning, and the ITU and its Working Group on Gender Issues to develop an international network of women professionals in telecom to conduct seminars.
The ITU is designating the Center as a new Center of Excellence to serve women throughout Central Asia and the FSU through the distance learning network designed by T/TI.
T/TI plans to use this program as the blueprint for developing other information communication technology and telecommunications training centers throughout the world.
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