Digital Nomads was established to support and develop the Kazakhstani IT community in Kazakhstan and abroad

Digital Nomads was established to support and develop the Kazakhstani IT community in Kazakhstan and abroad

The panel session on “Digital Nomads: Digital Trend of our times” was held within the International Digital Forum “Digital Almaty”.

The panel session was attended by members of the Digital Nomads IT community: Aliya Mirzakhmetova, Goldn GmbH Co-founder, Nazerke Seidan, Software Engineer at Salesforce, Askar Satabaldiyev, Meta Chief Software Engineer, Asset Abdualiyev, Senior Manager for Strategy and Growth at TaskRabbit.com and other natives of Kazakhstan.

“Community unites Kazakhstanis living and working in the technology companies abroad. We have about four hundred people in this community. The community unites Kazakhstanis from many countries, mostly, of course, from America, Europe, and Asia. And we built this community in order to bring our knowledge to the development of the Kazakhstani IT community,” said Abdualiev.

Today, Digital Nomad is doing a number of projects aimed at supporting and promoting young women in the industry, a project to develop sports programming, the “University Lectures” project, in which community members give lectures for free, and many others.

However, Abdualiyev noted, there is a public opinion that these people who left Kazakhstan, will never come back.

 “An old saying even states that: “it’s better to be poor in your own motherland than a Sultan in a foreign land.” Are you lost for Kazakhstan and will you ever return to Kazakhstan?” he asked the participants of the session.

“I agree completely with this saying “it’s better to be poor in your own motherland than a Sultan in a foreign land”. But now it’s time for digital nomads, digitalization, and globalization. And I want, I do really want ten thousand Kazakhstanis to go to Amsterdam, to Poland, to New York, to Warsaw, to Tokyo, to Sydney. Let five thousand of them settle there, let five thousand stay there. Five thousand will come back with a different way of thinking. And their children, their generation will only make Kazakhstan better. I believe that that should be so,” Satybaldiyev said in response.

Community members noted that Kazakhstani IT specialists are not inferior to world specialists and can equally work both abroad and at home.

 

Digital Almaty is a traditional dialogue platform for discussing the digital agenda, new strategies for digital transformation, and trends in digital technology. The forum has been held for the fifth time since 2018. The event is organized by the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Akimat of Almaty City, Tech Garden and Astana Hub.

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