Russia financed the first IT-Hub for young digital entrepreneurs in Osh city
The global economy has gone digital and ICT sector has grown to become one of the world's most successful and inspiring ecosystems. To bridge the digital divide UNDP supports grassroots entrepreneurship in the Republic bringing access to digital education to remote areas such as Osh city in the Fergana Valley.
On 25 January 2022 UNDP in the Kyrgyz Republic inaugurated the first IT-Hub in Osh city with the financial support of the Russian Federation. The purpose of the IT hub is to provide a platform for training young people in creative digital professions, including IT fields, which meet the growing high demands of the technological labor market.
IT-Hub Osh is the first new-format digital education hub in the south of the country and will aim to strengthen the education system and apply new educational standards in the field of digital skills to better prepare young people for the fast-changing world and contribute to the creative economy. The activities of the hub will support the nationwide digital transformation programme "Sanarip Kyrgyzstan" launched by the government in 2017 to create a transparent and knowledge-based economy, improve living standards and the business environment.
Representatives of the Ministry of Digitalization, Ministry of Education and Science, representatives of the Russian delegation, Mayor of Osh, representatives of the Osh University of Technology, and journalists attended the ceremony.
The establishment of the IT hub was made possible with the financial support of the Russian Federation within the UNDP project "Digital skills and employability of youth in the digital economy of the Kyrgyz Republic" and consultancy support from the leading business accelerator Ololo in cooperation with the Agency for Innovation and Technology of the Kyrgyz Republic.