KUSHTRIM XHAKLI WORKS FOR A BRIGHTER “E-FUTURE” FOR KOSOVO
When we started this blog, we promised to not only write about interesting projects and research, but also about interesting people - examples of talents that we hope to bring together at our first conference.
We already wrote about our very talented designers, and here’s another talent who really inspired us. We met Kushtrim Xhakli a few months back at the very cool LIFT conference in Geneva. Kushtrim, who is 25 years old, lives and works in Kosovo, currently the world’s youngest state. Coming from a family of artists, Kushtrim is very much the entrepreneurial type - but he also has a vision: Spreading the positive impact of information and communication technologies.
Kushtrim speaking at the LIFT conference in Geneva (Photo by Sarah Hutmann)
To do so, he works with the IPKO Institute, an organization aiming to invest in a “richer e-future for Kosovo”, as Kushtrim puts it. One of the institute’s most successful projects is the website trajnimi.com. It allows people in Kosovo to complete online and for free the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL), a standardised computer skills certification programme.
Only a few months after having launched, more than 5000 people had completed the programme on trajnimi.com. Kushtrim worked together with the Ministry of Education in Kosovo to further promote the service, and eventually handed over the site entirely to the government, which now runs it. This marks a huge success for a small initiative - and gives Kushtrim time to work on some new innovative projects.
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