TNs from Afghanistan offer director level responsibility and enormous potential for growth in as Afghanistan develops into a new country. These traineeships are now available for suitable SNs on Insight now. Check out our page about Afghan Traineeships generally to see some of the amazing things that have been done by our previous TNs (from national TV to building companies). Currently TNs are available in two leading organisations - but if you have the skills and are looking for something else don't hesitate to contact us and we can arrange it.

PAIWASTOON Networking Services Ltd. 

PAIWASTOON is a small commercial enterprise adapating IT to the unique challenges in Afghanistan - creating the webmail system in Afghanistan's native languages, mobile email systems, business applications, training and more. Requires some experience in business planning and financing.
www.paiwastoon.com.af

Available TNs 

TN-In-AF-AF-2008-1014

Business development Traineeship: 

Job/Task Description 1 Developing training plans for the local members of the business development team

Job/Task Description 2 Weekly coaching meetings with members of the business development team

Job/Task Description 3 Coordination with key account customers inc. USAID / Ministry of Education, OLPC and stakeholders in the creation of the Afghan IT Entrepreneurs Network, meetings, etc.

Job/Task Description 4 New Product Development steering and review meetings - Support with Market Research Design, implementation and review

Job/Task Description 5 Meetings with potential new customers / prospects

Job/Task Description 6 Other Business Development work as desired / delegated

TN-In-AF-AF-2008-1013

Development Studies and Information Technology Traineeship:

Job/Task Description 1 Developing training sessions for the local technical team in relevant open source technologies (primarily xml/xsl, Java, and Linux Servers)

Job/Task Description 2 Weekly individual coaching meetings with members of the local technical team

Job/Task Description 3 Development / Coding work with different open source systems - inc. OLPC/XO, Ubuntu, Web Development

Job/Task Description 4 Community website forum involvement / Open source development forums involvement

Job/Task Description 5 Potential new customer meetings

Job/Task Description 6 Agile Development Process Iteration Review