Sherzod Shermatov congratulated the participants of Tumaris Tech on their victory at WSIS 2022

The minister of ICT Sherzod Shermatov have congratulated the participants of Tumaris Tech project on their victory at the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2022 (WSIS 2022).

WSIS 2022 Forum motto this year was “ICTs for Well-Being, Inclusion and Resilience: WSIS Cooperation for Accelerating Progress on the SDGs”.

WSIS Prizes annual contest that is hosted as part of the forum marks the achievements of countries, cities and regions that have established IT-services of social significance. The contest pursues the goal of identifying successful international experience for its subsequent implementation in all sectors. WSIS Prizes is awarded in 18 nominations for outstanding projects that mobilize the potential of ICT to accelerate socio-economic development worldwide.

IT Park won in the «Capacity building» nomination for the implementation of the Tumaris.Tech project.

Sherzod Shermatov noted the achievements of IT Park and, in particular, the success of the project Tumaris.Tech in his congratulatory speech. Within just two years of its implementation, the project achieved results by developing into 30 startups, and over 200 girls could gain knowledge in IT.  In addition, the Minister stressed that this was one of the first international level victories and wished them gain appreciation of such kind more in the future.

Tumaris.Tech is one of the major projects implemented by IT Park Uzbekistan in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The project was launched in July 2020. The program provides comprehensive support to women's entrepreneurial initiatives. The project consists of several components and aims increasing the involvement of women in the ICT ecosystem: starting from the development of BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) through access to education for women willing to work as freelance, to the development of startups and investment courses.