The Bitcoin Office of El Salvador announced that 80,000 public servants will receive bitcoin instruction and certification through an educational module that is part of the Higher School of Innovation in Public Administration (ESIAP) program. The module also includes training in the areas of cybersecurity, blockchain, and artificial intelligence (AI), offering a public administration certificate.
El Salvador to Instruct Public Servants on Bitcoin and Blockchain
El Salvador is investing to educate its public servants on bitcoin and its operation. The Bitcoin Office of El Salvador, an institution created to oversee all projects related to bitcoin, recently disclosed that 80,000 public servants of the country will receive bitcoin instruction and knowledge certification via a module part of the Public Administration curriculum imparted by the Higher School of Innovation in Public Administration (ESIAP).
President Nayib Bukele created ESIAP in August 2021 as the institution in charge of “strengthening public administration through the implementation of training and research programs aimed at all civil servants and public officials nationwide.”
The bitcoin topic is part of a module of the Public Administration certification, that has nine different modules and can be completed in 160 hours virtually and asynchronously. The seventh module, which includes the bitcoin topic, also includes other related subjects such as blockchain, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Thousands of El Salvador’s civil servants will soon receive the highest standard of instruction on bitcoin. And this will have the compounding effect of excellence begetting more excellence in El Salvador, the home of new capital markets on bitcoin.
Furthermore, she stated that this was only the beginning, and teased another education-related announcement for the near future. The country has been involved in building other bitcoin educative initiatives, such as a pilot program to introduce bitcoin content in school curriculums that started in September 2023.