Results
• Participants were equipped with skills and knowledge in tech, social and data innovations
• Social issues in Tajikistan were identified and possible solutions were discussed through design-thinking techniques
• Participants learned and tested new approach to project management used in the IT sphere – Scrum
• Participants developed their first Apps and thus got inspired by IT tools and their possibilities
• Participants developed Mobile Apps prototypes which will help to solve existing social issues in Tajikistan
11 participants installed anWriter Free mobile application that allows starting to learn programming languages independently. Some participants after they returned home conducted mini trainings in own organizations and told their colleagues what they had learned. The management of PO Javononi Navovar from Bokhtar thanked the organizers for training useful skills in volunteer of their organization Eradj Odinayev: recently the young man has held individual consultations for lonely pensioners of the town on how to protect from automatic teller machines scammers. After the training he continued to work independently over the project application for conducting an innovation inclusive business lab for returned migrant workers and issued it for subsequent submission to the Tajikistan UNDP grant committee.
It is expected that IT and technology skills acquired during the TechBootCamp will promote the development of social innovations by the Tajik civil society and Innovation4Change Hub in Central Asia.
Challenges
Civil society in Tajikistan is one of the sectors that assist to all stakeholders to address challenges of vulnerable minorities, and new and innovative technologies and ideas can be very helpful and strong. It can also help to local CSOs and activists, especially who acts on local community level, to innovatively engage donors, to address the needs of grass-root beneficiaries, and build healthy social partnership between all three sectors.
This can only be possible, if the third sector and CSOs are able to use and involve new, accessible technology. However, the current reality is that the number of CSO in the Tajikistan, who can both understand and work with evolving new technologies is very limited.
After participation in Digital Security Workshop and Regional TechBootCamp in Almaty, Kazakhstan we realized that CSOs in Tajikistan also need to gain similar knowledge and implement their ideas with using the innovative approaches and new solutions. The digital Security in Tajikistan is one significant issue, especially in the third sector and on the grass-root level. Technology doesn’t stop and develops every moment and public activists have to develop in this direction too.
This two-day interactive workshop will bring together civil society activists, local and international technology experts. It will strengthen the capacity of the civil society activists to innovatively formulate technology-based projects and programs, gain knowledge on new digital security applications and programs, and introduce a range of technology tools the civil society could use to increase the impact of their work.
Why is this innovative
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After participation in Digital Security Workshop and Regional TechBootCamp in Almaty, Kazakhstan we realized that CSOs in Tajikistan also need to gain similar knowledge and implement their ideas with using the innovative approaches and new solutions. The digital Security in Tajikistan is one significant issue, especially in the third sector and on the grass-root level. Technology doesn’t stop and develops every moment and public activists have to develop in this direction too.
This two-day interactive workshop brought together civil society activists, local and international technology experts. It strengthened the capacity of the civil society activists to innovatively formulate technology-based projects and programs, gained knowledge on new digital security applications and programs, and introduced a range of technology tools the civil society could use to increase the impact of their work. The Tech Boot Camp aims to bring together civil society activists that focused to use new ideas and technologies in Creative Problem Solving, Design Thinking and Digital Security. It will help to the local CSOs to address existing challenges with non-standard – innovative solutions. The focus will be on CSOs from the regions, since new technologies do not always reach them.