The World Bank will support retraining 3000 IT specialists in Georgia
By Tea Mariamidze
Wednesday, June 19
The information was released by the Head of Georgia’s Innovations and Technology Agency (GITA), Avtandil Kasradze. According to him, the program is expected to start in September 2019.
To take part in the training, applicants must have basic knowledge in the field. The World Bank finances the program with $3 million.
“The selection process will be conducted to select the best specialists for the program. This program aims to export the knowledge, i.e., when you do not go out of the country, but money comes into the economy of the country,” he explained.
Kasradze says Information Technology is the direction when it is not necessary to leave the country to work in a foreign company. These people can serve international companies [remotely] from any region of Georgia via the Internet.
“In this way, the Georgian economy will receive the income from European and American companies paid to our IT specialists,” he added.
The Head of GITA said that a survey was conducted which revealed in which field specifically the IT specialists need training.
“This research has led to an analysis of the market and showed us what professions the world needs. We have seen the demand for IT increases every day, as there is nearly no field which does not use information technologies today. So we want to supply the market with competitive specialists,” he noted.
Upon completion of the program, the participants will be obliged to pass an international certificate examination, the fee of which will be covered by the program.
“It will be difficult to predict that all the participants will be able to pass this test, but we aim to retrain our specialists at such a level that majority of them managed to get this international certificate,” he said.
According to Kasradze, the tender for selecting training centers will be announced soon.
“These centers will be tasked to have trainers themselves. The Innovations and Technologies Agency requests that each of them have an international certificate,” he added.
Georgian Innovations and Technologies Agency is aimed to form projects to promote the implementation of the United policy of the state programs, to coordinate information and communication technologies and to improve the entrance of innovations and increase efficiency in all fields.
To achieve these goals, Agency is carrying out the training in IT remote support, VOIP, Front-End, Java, Python, PHP, Android, iOS programming, IT projects and their quality management, as well as cybersecurity direction.
Georgian IT specialists are usually registered on the website of the GITA. The Agency initiated the creation of the portal that aims to gather the Georgian IT specialists in a unified database, to promote their employment and commercialization. The Agency offers its customer companies a paid service, in exchange for the IT specialists to get employment opportunity.