Each year, we select a few young IT professionals and train, upskill and pair them up with government departments working on healthcare, crime, disaster management, transportation, traffic education, that lack the resources to develop or improve services offered to citizens.
Our program provides young IT professionals with training, mentorship from industry experts, and exposure to the workings of the government. Most importantly, these fellows work on projects that create a large-scale positive impact.
Key Features
Our Fellowship Program revolves around three key features
Citizens and government working together, hand-in-hand, to solve problems
Adopting user-centric, lean, and agile development methodologies
Increasing civic engagement by creating innovative solutions in public services
Ongoing fellowship programs
KP Women Civic Internship Program
The KP Women Civic Internship Program is a 6-month program supported by Code for Pakistan, the KP IT Board, and The World Bank. The internship program has been designed to up-skill fresh graduates with technology skills, provide practical hands-on work experience and prepare them for exploring a career in Engineering, IT, and Software Development.
Women Interns accepted into the program get an opportunity to work on citizen-facing digital services to improve citizen engagement, automate government processes, and create innovation in public service delivery. These digital services will help solve problems in various public domains, such as economic development, healthcare, open data, citizen engagement, transportation, education, etc.
The internship program also offers blended learning, tailored mentorship and career counseling from top industry professionals. Interns will have the opportunity to improve their technical, soft and leadership skills within the six month internship program.
The curriculum is designed to empower the interns for the next stage of their careers:
Learning tracks offered within the curriculum include:
- Front end development
- Full stack development
- Mobile application development
- Graphic design and UX/UI development
- Software Quality Assurance, Testing and Analytics
- Data Sciences and Machine Learning
- Technical Product Management
In addition to learning the Interns will also get the opportunity to put those learnings to practical use by providing support to the Govt Innovation Fellowship teams working on digital govt projects.
KP Government Innovation Fellowship Program
The KP Government Innovation Fellowship Program is a 6-month program supported by Code for Pakistan, the KP IT Board, and the World Bank, where a team of talented researchers, designers, community organizers, and developers collaborate to build apps, inspire citizen engagement, improve government, and show how to innovate in public services. These apps can help solve problems in a variety of public domains, such as healthcare, crime, disaster management, citizen engagement, transportation, traffic, education, etc.
The KP Fellowship Program revolves around four key features:
- Citizens and government working together, hand-in-hand, to solve problems
- Adopting user-centric, lean, and agile development methodologies
- Increasing civic engagement by creating innovative solutions in public services
- Developing open source software solutions
The benefits that these fellows are getting includes a monthly stipend of Rs. 30,000/- for six months, professional mentorship, free workspace, leadership development training and above all a chance to work with a Government department to bring about a change in the digital landscape of KP.
TECH-NIH Fellowship Program
The TECH-NIH Fellowship Program is a 3-month program -- a joint collaboration between the National Institute of Health and Code for Pakistan, where a team of talented researchers, designers, community organizers, and developers collaborate to foster government innovation and improve service delivery.
The program's pilot was successfully executed from September to December 2021, where a total of 6 fellows were selected for the 3-month fellowship.
During their fellowship the fellows worked on the following projects:
- Developing a digital portfolio for the Biological Production Division
- Developing a digital portfolio for the Clinical Trials Unit
- Developin a new website for the Transformation & Excellence Centre for Health (TECH)
- Developing a prototype for Mobile App Helpline for expecting mothers
- Developing a digital survey tool for Lab Assessment of Antibiotic Resistance Testing Capacity (LAAARC)