Digital Transformation Center Iraq

In Iraq, a gap exists between the skills graduates possess and the digital economy’s demands, leaving many graduates unemployed. To bridge this gap, DTC Iraq provides targeted interventions to equip individuals with essential digital and soft skills for success in a rapidly changing digital economy landscape.

Our focus is on jobseekers, employees, entrepreneurs, and the self-employed, helping them gain advanced digital skills to improve their employment prospects, whether by securing new jobs or advancing in their current roles. This effort supports skill development and a sustainable digital economy, preparing individuals for future challenges and opportunities and contributing to a more dynamic and inclusive economy.

In the context of business growth, companies face challenges in adapting to the demands of the evolving digital ecosystem. To address these challenges, we focus on improving business activities through targeted interventions designed to support companies in navigating this landscape.

Our approach includes a range of implementation activities, such as training programmes, creating investment networks, and incubation and acceleration initiatives. Our implementing partners deliver these activities individually or in collaboration with other partners and private sector entities. The primary target group are start-ups, small businesses, and companies that can significantly benefit from enhanced capacity building and strategic investments. By focusing on these groups, we aim to foster sustainable business development, enabling them to scale their operations and improve their overall performance.

Interventions are designed to establish sustainable synergies and collaborations among key digital economy players. We organise meetings, roundtables, and events to facilitate forming these critical connections, bringing together different stakeholders to enhance cooperation.

Collaborating with our implementing partners, we engage a wide range of participants, including hubs, accelerators, private companies, think tanks, universities, NGOs, chambers, education providers, academia, the public sector, and employment agencies. By bringing these groups together, the center aims to build solid and lasting networks that enable collective efforts to support employment and investment opportunities for sustainable economic growth.

To introduce the digital economy’s economic and employment potential, the Digital Transformation Center focuses on sensitising key stakeholders and individuals across various sectors. We promote the knowledge and potential of the digital economy through media campaigns, events, and advocacy groups.

In partnership with local partners, we target political decision-makers, private sector employers and employees, the workforce, and students. These efforts aim to increase interest and motivation, encouraging individuals and organisations to enhance their skills and invest more deeply in the digital economy.