Uzbekistan – the UAE: Towards Programming the Future

On June 10, Tashkent summed up the results of the Uzbek-UAE joint project "One million Uzbek coders", launched in 2019.

The event was participated by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan A.Aripov, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade S. Umurzakov, Minister of Government of the UAE Muhammad bin Abdullah al-Gergavi, Director General of the UAE Prime Minister's Office Abdullah Luta, Head of the Dubai Future Fund Khalfan Belhul, and participants of the One Million Uzbek Coders project and IT-Park residents.

The guests at the event got acquainted with the history and results of the project, which launched in 2019 the most popular electronic portal "uzbekcoders.uz", allowing to learn remote programming in 4 most popular areas, including data analysis, Android, web application development and full-cycle software development.

Since project inception, more than 2.5 million youngsters have registered on the Uzbekcoders.uz platform, 1,557,000 people have completed the first phase, of which more than 1,175,000 have received certificates of successful completion. During the project, more than 20 competitions were held with a total prize fund of $ 350,000 US and 370 grants for Udacity Nanodegree training.