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Trainings of the project “Digital Citizen” in Bokonbaev village
Bokonbaevo is a picturesque village on the southern shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, which is the centre of eco-tourism in Kyrgyzstan. Situated in a paradisiacal corner, against the backdrop of exciting mountain scenery and blue-blue Issyk-Kul sparkling in the sun, every year it welcomes hundreds of tourists from all over the world, longing for unity with nature, simple rural life, and acquaintance with original Kyrgyz traditions.
The village is located 160 km from Karakol and 280 km from Bishkek at an altitude of 1800 metres above sea level. From here, treks are offered along the Terskey Ala-Too mountain range, lasting from one day to two weeks, through wild hot springs, the salty Lake Manas Bowl and Kyrgyzstan’s longest waterfall.
On the coast of Issyk-Kul and at the foot of the mountains there are guest houses and yurt camps where you can live the traditional life of the Kyrgyz. It is great to get up at sunrise, have a breakfast of boorsoks and fresh koumiss, ride horses through dewy green meadows, and then have a hearty lunch of besh-barmak, byzhy, zhorg, swim in the warm Issyk-Kul or go fishing, and in the late evening listen to the songs of akyns around the campfire.
On 6-7 December, an educational training for youth and women “Basic digital skills and work on digital tourism platforms” was held in Bokonbaevo village. Participants from different districts of Issyk-Kul province signed up for the training, the project is aimed at increasing the employment potential of rural youth, women and migrants.
These trainings use the MISTT methodology adapted to the country. The mistt methodology (Mobile Internet Skills Trainings Toolkit) is an application for teaching basic mobile internet skills.
Our trainers taught all participants basic digital skills, and all those who came to this training learnt how to use social networks such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Google My Business WhatsApp and Telegram messengers in business.
This event is organised with the financial support of the European Union, the project “Sanarip Insan” “Creation of equal economic opportunities and promotion of youth sustainability”. It is implemented by the public association “Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Fund (She starts)”.
At the end of the two-day training, the participants were awarded certificates.
Sanarip Insan is a project aimed at improving digital literacy among young people, women, migrants and people living in remote regions. In particular, it proposes the use of digital platforms, learning the functions of social networks, digital financial applications, the use of information technology in online commerce and entrepreneurship, and ways of sustainable development through a green economy. The project is implemented by the European Neighbourhood Council and the Internet Society Kyrgyzstan Chapter with the support of the EU.
Trainings of the project “Digital Citizen” in Karakol
Karakol is one of the most popular tourist centres in Kyrgyzstan. Every year it receives tens of thousands of tourists from Europe and Asia.
Karakol is located in the east of Kyrgyzstan, at the foot of the Teskei-Ala-Too ridge. Only 12 kilometres away from the city is Lake Issyk-Kul, which is without exaggeration the main natural attraction of its country.
Karakol is separated from Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, by almost four hundred kilometres.
Currently, Karakol is the administrative centre of Issyk-Kul oblast. According to the latest census, it is home to just over 60,000 people. Tourists Karakol receives during the year, of course, many times more. Everyone who believes that “only mountains that have never been there before can be better than mountains” should definitely visit Karakol.
On 2-3 December, an educational training for youth and women “Basic digital skills and work on digital tourism platforms” was held in Karakol city. Participants from different districts of Issyk-Kul province signed up for the training, the project is aimed at increasing the employment potential of rural youth, women and migrants.
These trainings use the MISTT methodology adapted to the country. The mistt methodology (Mobile Internet Skills Trainings Toolkit) is an application for teaching basic mobile internet skills.
Our trainers taught all participants basic digital skills, and all those who came to this training learnt how to use social networks such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Google My Business WhatsApp and Telegram messengers in business.
This event is organised with the financial support of the European Union, the project “Sanarip Insan” “Creation of equal economic opportunities and promotion of youth sustainability”. It is implemented by the public association “Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Fund (She starts)”.
At the end of the two-day training, the participants were awarded certificates.
Sanarip Insan is a project aimed at improving digital literacy among young people, women, migrants and people living in remote regions. In particular, it proposes the use of digital platforms, learning the functions of social networks, digital financial applications, the use of information technology in online commerce and entrepreneurship, and ways of sustainable development through a green economy. The project is implemented by the European Neighbourhood Council and the Internet Society Kyrgyzstan Chapter with the support of the EU.
Trainings of the project “Digital Citizen” in Naryn region
Naryn is the largest and mountainous region of Kyrgyzstan. The population is about 300 thousand people. Due to the harsh climate in which most residents are engaged in animal husbandry, the younger generation is forced to go abroad in search of work because of unemployment. Recently, there has been an increasing interest of tourists in this region. This, in turn, contributes to the growth of the number of guest houses. However, not all owners of guest houses know how to use modern digital skills when selling their services on the Internet to develop their business. Therefore, digital literacy is of great importance for reducing unemployment, providing workplaces for young people, women and migrants in their country.
For this reason, the training of the digital personality project takes place in the Naryn region.On November 17-18, the EU-funded project “Promotion of equal opportunities and youth sustainability” training in the Naryn region. It was attended by about 20 young people, women, single mothers who improved their digital skills in the field of tourism and digital professions. It isimplemented Foundation of the Development of Entrepreneurship among Women “She starts”.In training mentors use an adapted MISTT methodology. The MISTT (Mobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit) methodology is a toolkit for teaching people basic mobile internet skills.
On the first day of training (November 17), participants received information about the SMM and got acquainted with the ways of its proper use in business. Facebook Instagram, Tik-Tok platforms, as well as Google Statistics, WhatsApp, Telegram messengers were also taught by the participants how to work in practice with Facebook, Instagram, Tik-Tok platforms. As a result, each participant was able to create their own pages on social networks, link them to messengers and learn how to send links.The second day of the training is dedicated to tourism and its participants directly: Google; Airbnb; TripAdvisor; Booking.com was told about the platforms and trained in the methods of practical use.Then, following the results of the two-day training, the participants were awarded certificates. You can watch the report on the training in the Naryn region by clicking on the following link: https://youtu.be/ROx22pH9TiU
The “Sanarip Insan” project will continue the training in other regions of the country
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