The government of El Salvador wants to increase the efficiency of 80,000 workers for which it plans to introduce a comprehensive Bitcoin certification program that includes strategic management and public policy.
The National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) in El Salvador will educate and Bitcoin certify 80000 government employees.
Friendly Central American nation’s Bitcoin BTC tickers down to $60,036 A friendly Central American nation has recently unveiled a training initiative for civil servants focused on enhancing knowledge about the strategic management and public policies of Bitcoin.
The 160-hour virtual and asynchronous training session — Certification in Public Administration 1 — is separated into seven modules and each of these contains information about several concepts, laws, skills, and management of the use of Bitcoin as a legal tender.
Creating a Bitcoin-ready national workforce
Stacy Herbert, director of ONBTC, said that training civil servants will only magnify El Salvador’s impact by focusing on the Bitcoin economy. Believing it so, she intends to launch more education-oriented programs. She said:
“These education projects are indeed not short-sighted at all: they are long-term investments in the future of El Salvador and its Bitcoin (and tech) policy”.
The Bitcoin certification campaign is led by the Higher School of Innovation in Public Administration (ESIAP), pioneered by President Nayib Bukele back in August this year.
From ONBTC which goes by the name “The Bitcoin Office”, the curriculum is one crafted to fortify “the quality delivery of governance and public administration in El Salvador.”
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Argentina learns from El Salvador’s Bitcoin adoption
When El Salvador, a country with a hyper-inflationary economy, embraced Bitcoin and registered financial success, the eyes of many other such economies became opened.
In May, the authorities of Argentina started cooperating with El Salvador to study the authorities’ experience in the adoption of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Securities regulators in Argentina and El Salvador, the National Securities Commission (CNV) and the National Commission of Digital Assets (CNAD) respectively, were in a meeting the other day discussing on the possibility of adopting and regulating cryptocurrencies in the two Latin American countries.
During the meeting, CNV President Silva said: During the meeting, CNV President Silva said:
“They have OIBs and we would like to enhance our relations with the Republic of El Salvador consequently, we are going to discuss the opportunity to sign cooperation agreements with them. ”
Further, Argentina only issued registration necessities for crypto firms in April of the year and has been quite adventurous with cryptocurrencies since Bitcoin-loving Javier Milei became the president of Argentina in the last quarter of 2023.