PTT – Providers of Telecommunications Training, the UK’s leading provider of e-learning for the telecoms industry – is delighted to announce a partnership with the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO). The CTO is an international development partnership which aims to bridge the digital divide by delivering unique knowledge sharing programmes.

PTT will provide its extensive range of e-learning courses to the CTO for use in its “ILearn@CTO” learning portal.  The courses will be available through the CTO for those in the Commonwealth and beyond. 

All courses will be completed on a computer – either using the Internet or a CDROM.  This will allow people in remote locations and developing countries to improve their knowledge and skills in a cost-effective, manageable way. 

Trainees will have 12 months access to their course, allowing them to complete it at their own pace, anytime, anywhere.

PTT’s Managing Director, Bob Nott says “This is a fantastic partnership.  The work of the CTO is crucial to developing telecoms skills in the Commonwealth.  We are delighted to have been chosen as their supplier – enhancing our reputation as a leading e-learning provider to the telecoms industry.  E-learning is vital to the developing world because classroom-based training can be too expensive and difficult for those working remotely to attend.  E-learning also ensures that all employees receive the same content.”

The “ILearn@CTO” learning portal will officially launch on the CTO website from 20th October 2008.

About PTT

PTT was founded by telecoms experts in 1993 to be at the forefront of what was then the new field of computer-based training (CBT). Since those early days, the Internet has become an important enabler of learning and PTT has developed considerable expertise in the design and use of online e-learning for the telecommunications and ICT sectors. For more about the telecommunications e-learning offered by PTT visit: www.ptt.co.uk

About the CTO www.cto.int

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.