The Structure of NetTel

NetTel@Africa is a comprehensive capacity-building strategy focused on improving the use of information communication technologies (ICT) to achieve socio-economic development goals in Africa. More than a strategy, NetTel@Africa is a global network of government officials, regulators, academics, researchers, service providers, consumers, and civil society.
Ultimately, the goal of NetTel@Africa is the use of ICT by all citizens in Africa. To reach the goal requires improved policy and regulation as well as increased private sector investment. In this way, NetTel@Africa aims to build the capacities of policy makers, regulators, private sector operators, consumer advocates, and academic institutions. NetTel@Africa has four synergistic components:

• International Peer-to-Peer Programme - The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) exchanges focus on three types of relationships among and between Africans and non-African nations: academic-to-academic, regulator-to-academic, and regulator-to-regulator.
• Training and Degree Programmes in ICT Policy and Regulation - The training programmes can be taken a la carte through workshops and hot topic seminars or to accumulate credit towards a Postgraduate Diploma and Masters Degree programmes.
• Research Programme to complement the degree programmes - The Community-to-Community (C2C) exchanges focus on the relationship between telecommunications policy and regulations with key sectors that are critical to the economic development process, particularly education.
• Community-to-community Programme on ICT for development - The Research Programme focuses key questions regarding the impact of policy and regulation on the telecommunications sector and development.
  

NetTel offers three training programmes that ascend in levels of intensity and commitment. The first level is a NetTel Seminar series that includes various multi-day short-course formats resulting in a certificate of attendance. The second level is the Post Graduate Diploma requiring at least a one year commitment to complete 10 core courses. The third level is the Masters Degree that builds on the Post Graduate Diploma and requires the completion of at least 4 additional advanced level courses and a research project (e.g., Thesis) depending on the requirements of the home institution of choice.