An analysis conducted by (McKinsey & Company, 2017) indicates that, "Colombia has a digital talent gap that would reach 160k-265k jobs in 2025, where 68k-112k would correspond to software developers."
Misión TIC 2022 is a program aimed to train 100,000 Colombian youth and adults in programming, to face the challenges of accelerated digital transformation in companies and society.

With Mision TIC 2022 we are contributing to the closing of the IT talent gap in Colombia, creating opportunities for young people and promoting the development of skills to solve problems through programming and the development of strategies for job placement.

100,000 Colombians would be able to access this programming training through two routes:


Learning Path 1
Target audience: Young students from public schools in grades 10 and 11 who have basic knowledge in IT subjects, from technical secondary education or in academic schools with deepening in technology and computer science.

Learning Path 2
Target audience: high school graduates over 15 years old and adults who wish to develop programming skills. In this learning path they will have the possibility of completing a basic training cycle and then, deepening in web application development or mobile application development.

Through working groups with businessmen and entrepreneurs, we determined the needs of profiles in ICT areas, programming languages, developer profiles, English language learning, strengthening of socioemotional skills and other necessary competencies to facilitate their approach to the labor market.

During 2020, the training had 5.623 beneficiaries, 1.500 for the learnig path 1 and 4.123 for learning path 2. By 2021 we propose to train 50.000 Colombians and by 2022 we will train the remaining part of the goal to reach 100.000 programmers.

https://www.misiontic2022.gov.co/portal/

• Colombia

• Youth
• Older persons
• Women
• Indigenous and nomadic peoples
• People with disabilities
• The unemployed
• The poor
• Migrants
• Refugees and internally displaced people
• Remote and rural communities

The structure of the project allows its replicability in different scenarios and especially in different educational systems and the Colombian government has been implementing inter-institutional actions to generate sustainability of the project, so that more young people can benefit from this training process.

Misión TIC 2022 is a new project experience for Colombia, to structure the Project we reviewed international experiences, especially those in countries such as Argentina, Paraguay, Chile and Uruguay, identifying actions for improvement and relevance for the country in terms of the goal and the population to be benefited.

It is important to highlight that the project has generated a regional mobilization and the support of the community in general to promote the training of young people in their regions. For that reason, we can share your values as respect, equality, tolerance and shared responsability with the comunities specially with the educators and young people