ISLAMABAD, February 17: Upon request from Information and Communication Technology Institute (ICTI) to build the capacity and skill set on Mobile application development and mobile mediated solutions, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) are jointly organising a training course from February 16 to 26, 2016 at PTA HQs, Islamabad. The main objectives of the training course are to build human and institutional capacity in mobile application development and fill the gap which is the lack of skilled professionals in mobile application development in Afghanistan; to train instructors of ICTI so they can introduce a course on Mobile application development at ICTI; analyse case studies on different countries of Asia Pacific region, so that international best practices can be adopted and teach how to develop native applications on iPhone and Android devices/platforms.-PR