E-commerce training of the project “Digital Citizen” in At-Bashy village

On March 16, the “Sanarip Insan” project held a training in the village of At-Bashy.

The basis of the economy in the village of At-Bashi is animal husbandry, agriculture. Housewives are engaged in needlework, sewing a carpet made of felt -shyrdak. Recently, At-Bashi has been very popular with foreign tourists. Local needlewomen and farmers need basic digital skills to sell their products not only in Kyrgyzstan, but also abroad.

Training to improve the digital skills of the population in rural areas, this time is held on the topic “Electronic commerce”. In particular, the training participants learn in practice to take photos and videos (mobilography) of their products or services provided, edit, create a text description for them (copywriting) and place them on various electronic platforms.

More than 15 girls, women and young people took part in the training in Balykchy. During the training, the participants took pictures of their products in practice and posted photos on the Internet for presentation to their customers. Upon completion, all participants were awarded certificates stating that they had completed the training on “Electronic Commerce”. 

We would like to thank  the At-Bashy District Library and the “Center for Civic Education” of the Central Election Commission for their assistance in organizing training on “E-commerce”.

The “Sanarip Insan” project is being implemented by the European Neighborhood and Unification Council, the “Internet Society Kyrgyz Chapter”, with the financial support of the European Union.