Overview

The growth of the mobile internet and converged services is creating new challenges related to the use and protection of people’s personal information. This three-week course investigates the current state of mobile privacy, highlights research into consumer attitudes towards their privacy and examines current and emerging regulations around the world. The course also reviews the GSMA’s universal Mobile Privacy Principles, Privacy Design Guidelines for app developers and industry initiatives that give consumers more control over how their information is used.

Course Objectives

  • Understand the facets of mobile privacy, data protection and consumer trust.
  • Consider the role of mobile operators, internet content providers and consumers in respecting and protecting the privacy of consumers.
  • Discover how regulation can be applied effectively to protect consumer privacy in a converged world.

Course Enrolment Criteria

This course is open to:

  • Regulators
  • Policymakers
  • Representatives from academia and international organisations working on regulatory or policy issues

We cannot accept applications from individuals working in the private sector or those not involved in policy or regulation.

Course Completion Certificates

All of our courses are certified by the United Kingdom Telecoms Academy (UKTA) and can be used as evidence of professional development.

To qualify for a course completion certificate, you must view all the course sessions and answer correctly all the quiz questions you will find as you progress through the sessions. You will also need to fill out the course survey.

You do not have to complete a final project to earn a course completion certificate but we strongly encourage you to create one. Putting together a final project will give you an opportunity to reflect on the principles covered during the course and help you discover how they could be applied to your own country. If you submit a final project the course trainer will provide you with valuable feedback that you may find useful in your day-to-day work.

Course Structure and Study Time

The course consists of three sessions and you will gain access to all of them on the course start date. You will have the opportunity to ask questions about the content of the course on the course forum.

It should not take you more than two to three hours of study time per week to complete the course in three weeks. You will have, however, six weeks to complete it. If after six weeks you have not completed the course, you will have to start it again the next time it is offered.

If you decide to submit a final project, it will probably take you four to six hours to put it together. You will have six weeks to submit your final project.

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Duration: 3 weeks
Start date:
24 August 2023

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Formateur

Seyni Fati
Gestionnaire principal des politiques publiques en Afrique subsaharienne, GSMA

Seyni Malan Fati est gestionnaire principal des politiques publiques en Afrique subsaharienne, GSMA. Il a pris ce poste en septembre 2019, apportant avec lui plus de 14 ans d’expérience en matière de réglementation des TIC. Basé à Dakar, il est responsable des programmes de plaidoyer de GSMA et du soutien aux membres en matière de politique et de réglementation en Afrique de l’Ouest.

Avant de rejoindre GSMA, Seyni était le chef des projets au Secrétariat de Smart Africa à Kigali, au Rwanda. Il a principalement dirigé la mise en œuvre du projet One Africa Network et les initiatives d’itinérance libre entre les pays membres de Smart Africa.

Avant de rejoindre Smart Africa, Seyni a été Directeur de l’Economie et des Marchés des Télécommunications à l’Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications et des Postes (ARTP) du Sénégal, de 2015 à fin 2018. Il a dirigé et participé à plusieurs projets et études tels que l’élaboration de la stratégie du Service Universel des Télécommunications du Sénégal, l’audit des coûts des opérateurs agréés, la mise en œuvre du dégroupage de la boucle locale, l’approbation des catalogues d’interconnexion des opérateurs puissants désignés, la mise en œuvre de la portabilité des numéros, les campagnes de mesure de la qualité de service des opérateurs et l’identification des abonnés au Sénégal. En 2017, Seyni a été l’un des points focaux pour la mise en place de la zone unique d’itinérance libre en Afrique de l’Ouest

M. Fati est Vice-Président de la Commission d’études 12 de l’UIT-T sur la qualité de service et Président du Groupe régional africain de la Commission d’études 12.

Après d’études supérieures en mathématiques à Paris, il est entré à l’Ecole polytechnique de Montréal pour devenir ingénieur en télécommunications en 2001.


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Moderator

Andrea Guajardo Macías
Partnerships and Delivery Manager, GSMA

Andrea is partnerships and delivery manager for the GSMA’s Capacity Building programme. Based in Santiago, Chile, Andrea manages the GSMA Capacity Building online training courses delivery to regulators and policy makers worldwide and leads capacity building partnerships with the World Bank, ITU, among others.
She holds a Master’s degree in Linguistics, a Bachelor’s degree in Education in English from the University of Santiago of Chile, a Diploma in International Relations, and a Diploma in Women and Global Public Policy from the University of Chile.

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