Financial literacy courses and a programming school: 9 EdTech startups from Central Asia

Kazakhstan

QWANT — a high-tech school focused on training developers of digital products and services. Its distinctive feature is the exclusion of the teacher as a facilitator and controller of the educational process. IT specialists independently build their own personalized educational programs, actively learning through solving specific practical tasks.

BTS Education — a company developing educational products, including:

— Atlas of New Professions and Competencies of Kazakhstan

— JumysBar — online educational courses

— EduNavigator — career guidance for school students and university students.

Finmentor — courses for those who want to learn how to manage their finances properly and build a secure long-term investment plan.

Datanomix pro helps companies increase the number of active Qlik Sense users and convert them into confident Self Service Qlik developers, while experienced developers learn advanced big data skills to solve the most complex analytical tasks.

HeRo Study — a Kazakhstani company developing cloud solutions for managing educational organizations.

Uzbekistan

Prep.uz — a collection of online video lessons from the most experienced teachers in Uzbekistan, opening new opportunities for young people in the field of education. Each video course covers the full range of topics required for applicants taking entrance exams.

Mohirdev — an online platform for IT courses in the Uzbek language in areas such as Data Science, AI, frontend development, Python, Java, JavaScript, C++, and many others.

Kyrgyzstan

Neobis Clubs — a youth organization that develops Kyrgyzstan in the IT sector, innovation, and education by providing internship programs.

Mancho School — a programming school under the IT company Mancho Devs. The mission of Mancho School is to make education accessible to more people.

CC Chinese — an application that helps learn the Chinese language using a unique author's methodology, Clever Creative Chinese. The distinctive feature of the methodology is the use of mnemonic memorization techniques and easy presentation of materials through author's illustrations with hieroglyphs, animations, comics, video lessons, and games.