40 Employment Contract SignaturesFor PICTI - UNDP/DEEP Project Beneficiaries in Local Companies
During March 2008, PICTI started with the implementation phase of the UNDP/DEEP project funded by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) by taking the intermediary role and match-making between the companies’ requests and the graduates’ applications which resulted in the signature of 40 Employment contracts.
Its worth mentioning, that PICTI completed a comprehensive training course for about a hundred beneficiaries of this program. The training covered several technical and administrative issues, ICT Marketing, Entrepreneurship, in addition to personal skills, and others.
On March 26th, 2008, PICTI held an Employment Open Day where several interviews took place between participating companies and beneficiaries and which resulted in employing several beneficiaries. PICTI also took this opportunity in submitting certificates for all beneficiaries who attended the training courses.
In addition to generating employment, PICTI is currently working on establishing a number of 5 Micro-enterprises for a number of 17 beneficiaries distributed in five Palestinian Districts. These Micro-Enterprises will hopefully start their activities before the end of this month.
For local Companies: If you are an existing ICT company, do take advantage of the DEEP Al-Raed project in either employing recent graduates in your own company’s headquarters or subcontracting a newly formed micro-enterprise in geographic areas that you find it hard to physically cover. Please download the form catering for those seeking employment or having a need to subcontract a micro-enterprise entity.
DEEP Micro-Enterprise – Please call Mr. Hasan Omar on PICTI at (02) 240-9290
In collaboration with the Palestine IT Association of Companies (PITA), PICTI has recently published two position papers to promote innovation and technology entrepreneurship in Palestine.
The first paper addresses the topic of promoting new technology based start-up companies Company Registration - Position Paper; while the second one focuses on the impact of having a good policy on intellectual property rights by the Palestinian Authority as means to develop an enabling environment to position the ICT sector for foreign direct investments IPR Position Paper.
All rights reserved for PICTI. You may use the two position papers by soliciting approval from PICTI in writing or referencing the documents as PICTI’s publications.
Contemporary Concepts in ICT Marketing
PICTI has conducted a workshop and a training seminar on contemporary concepts in technology marketing based on the books of Geoffrey A. Moore in “Crossing the Chasm” and “Inside the Tornado”.
PICTI Participation in the: Services to Incubators and Technoparks - Individual Accompanying Techniques of Innovative projects holders Training Seminar
ICT in Vocational Training
PICTI will soon be collaborating with Mercy Corps on the new USAID funded project of integrating ICT in vocational training. Stay tuned for further details.