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"Cyber Summer Camp – 2025" has started in Tashkent!
06.08.2025
The "Cyber Summer Camp – 2025," aimed at developing digital education and IT potential in Uzbekistan, has officially begun.
Cyber Summer Camp is a two-week intensive training program for mentors and school students working within the "Muhammad al-Khwarizmi’s Heirs" system.
The project involves nearly 150 IT and IT English language mentors, as well as more than 50 ninth- and tenth-grade students, with the goal of improving language proficiency from A2 to B1–B2 levels, and providing eleventh-grade students with practical IT experience.
Within the camp, opportunities for IT education will be created for youth from Khorezm and Karakalpakstan. It will also serve as a platform that combines practice and innovation, where participants will gain in-depth knowledge and skills in the most relevant areas of modern information technology, such as:
• Cybersecurity • DevOps • Back-end and Front-end development • Data analysis • IT English
In addition, participants will take part in team competitions, cultural events, and a hackathon, gaining direct interaction with industry and innovation.
Project partners: Stirling Foundation (USA) and professors from Utah Valley University (USA).
Organizers: Ministry of Digital Technologies, IT Education Association, Center for the Development of Digital Education, and the "Muhammad al-Khwarizmi’s Heirs" project.
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Shahrizoda Isomitdinova graduated from Amity University in Tashkent with a degree in Information Technology and is currently working at Huawei.
She is the eldest of 3 girls in her family. Shahrizoda has been to 19 countries around the world through scholarships she received during her studies at the university.
Shahrizoda is one of our girls who believes that higher education plays an important role in a person's development in life. "I wanted to make the most of my opportunities and contribute to our society, so that other girls would see that nothing is impossible. There are few girls in the world of technology and we need to change that," says Shahrizoda.
The full interview is available at this link 👉 link
The JIDU Student Council, with the support of the IT Education Association link, invites you to become a part of a real New Year's miracle! It is in your hands to share warmth and joy with children who need special care during this magical time of the year.
How can you help?
❤️ Bring things that bring happiness to children:
We accept the following items:
👞Warm clothes and shoes 🧸Toys 📒Children's books ✏️School supplies 🎁Gifts, electronics and other useful things
💚You can donate money: -Offline: at the collection point -Online: via QR codes, Zoomrad, PayMe, Click
📍JIDU, building B, 1st floor ⏰10:00-17:00 🗓️ December 17-24
Today, May 15, an event organized by the Ministry of Digital Technologies, the IT Education Association, the Center for the Development of Digital Education, and the Coursera platform discussed innovations in artificial intelligence, education, and the labor market.
At the event, which brought together more than 100 young people, Deputy Minister of Digital Technologies Rustam Karimjonov provided information about the opportunities for training in future professions and obtaining internationally recognized IT education certificates using the Coursera educational platform, which includes programs from more than 300 international universities and companies.
Representatives of the Coursera educational platform - the company's regional director Larisa Witcroft and senior manager Vera Ignateva - participated and made presentations on trends in the international higher education and labor market, as well as effective use and teaching methods for Coursera courses.
Panel discussions were also held on the topics of integrating Coursera courses into the curriculum, Artificial Intelligence and future curricula.
For information, in the Global Skills 2024 report, Uzbekistan ranks 1st among countries investing in human resources training and in the CIS in terms of Coursera users.
In 2023-2024, more than 1.2 million young people studied free courses in 8 IT specialties, and 400 thousand young people received international IT certificates.
In 2025-2026, it is planned to train more than 1 million young people in 5 areas for free, and more than 30 thousand young people will be trained for professional-level international IT certificates.
The event awarded the most active students who achieved high results on the Coursera educational platform.
