Project of the Ministry of labor and ISIT on training digital-specialties will be continued

Socially vulnerable groups of the population are trained in digital-specialties in the framework of a joint project of the Ministry of labor and social protection of the population of Kazakhstan and the Innovative school of Internet technologies (ISIT) Amir Suleimenov.

The pilot project was organized jointly with United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is training people in digital skills and professions in demand such as SMM-Manager (social networking marketing), PPC-Manager (specialist in contextual advertising), a developer of web-sites, in 2018 were 60 people, including individuals with disabilities, parents of children with disabilities, mothers with many children, single mothers, citizens of pre-retirement and retirement age, and others. Of these, 77% were immediately able to find a job.

"We see that this project has shown its success and this year it will be scaled up," Suleimenov commented.

The Innovative school of Internet technologies also teaches programming and web design. Training takes place online. The course can be attended by anyone, it is necessary to have a smartphone or computer with Internet access. Special discounts up to 100% of the cost of education are provided for socially vulnerable segments of the population and people with disabilities. The duration of the course is from one to two months.