Muscat, (ONA)The National Youth Committee has launched a project for technical youth camps in cooperation with the Ministry of Technology and Communications, Microsoft Corporation and InnoTech, in the framework of its technical training camp for youth aimed at enabling students and professionals to obtain appropriate training opportunities and harnessing technical capabilities and competences, including artificial intelligence technologies and the Internet of things.

The technical training camp will offer young people dedicated paths for learning technologies such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of things as well as robotics, 3D printing and smart applications. The training course paths will provide its employees with the necessary technical knowledge on how to implement and adopt these technologies in order to enable and transform existing challenges into opportunities available across all industries within the Sultanate.

The number of registered participants in this program reached 120 trainees, with 30 trainees participating in each track.

Alia Al Shanfaria, member of the National Youth Committee and head of the Technical Youth Camps Project, said that the program will work to localize various modern technologies after benefiting from technical training provided by Microsoft, to ensure the growth of a young specialized technical generation.

This project is implemented by the National Youth Committee within the “Youth Capacity Development” program of its five sustainable programs package.

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