Kathmandu – Kageshwori Manahara Municipality (KMM) in Kathmandu has established an Innovation Center with a view to equipping youth in IT skills.
Mayor of Kageshwori Manahara Municipality, Upendra Karki, said that the Municipality had decided to set up the Innovation Center with the aim of making the Municipality the country’s IT hub.
He emphasized the vast opportunities that tech education could bring to the community. “Today’s youths are looking for education that could lead them to gainful employment. We are so happy to collaborate with Genese Solution and would like to extend our sincere thanks to Genese for this timely initiative,” he said. He said the municipality was working to create opportunities for the Gen Z generation.
Genese Solution – a UK-based value IT consulting and cybersecurity firm- organised a Tech Job Enablement IT workshop in collaboration with Kageshwori Manahara Municipality Innovation Centre on Friday.
Addressing the event, Executive Director of Genese Solution, Bhim Dhakal, urged local youth to join the workshop and improve their skills. “IT literacy has become a must for all groups of people, especially youth,” he said. He thanked Kageshwori Manahara Municipality for setting up the Innovation Center and said Genese Solution was happy to collaborate with the Municipality with a view to supporting local youth to gain tech skills and prepare them for employment opportunities in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector.
Making a presentation, founder and CEO of Genese Solution, Mr Anjani Phuyal, said that bridging the gap in digital governance could create thousands of jobs and help Nepal connect with the world on its own terms.
“Genese Solution, in collaboration with the KMM Innovation Center, has been organising tech bootcamps to train local youth in web development, data science, AI, and cybersecurity, among others,” said Phuyal, who is also a former AWS Ambassador for the UK and Ireland. “We will connect local youth to certificate-awarding courses offered by AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, which would directly link them to the IT job market. Technology is not just about tools; it’s about people. Let us continue to create opportunities where young minds can innovate, inspire, and learn,” he added.
Chairman of Ward No. 6 of Kageshwori Manohara Municipality, Prakash Phuyal, said that many youths were going abroad as they would not get any employment locally. He thanked Genese Solution for providing such an opportunity to local youths in their own community and expressed full support from the municipality.
In August this year, Genese Solution and Kageshwori Manohara Municipality signed an MoU to enhance digital literacy and workplace readiness.
A ‘Girls in Tech’ group has also been formed so as to promote women’s participation in the tech sector. Nearly 70 local youths have already signed up with the center to join various courses, a press statement said.
