Russia's Workle on-line trainer and job creator, a resident of the country's hi-tech hub Skolkovo near Moscow, plans to create about 100,000 distance jobs in Russia this year, Workle General Director Vladimir Gorbunov said on Monday.
Workle is beginning a 27.5-million ruble ($923,000) project in Skolkovo to set up an on-line training and working platform to provide Russians, especially in the regions, with distance jobs in the country's leading companies.
"A citizen will be able to get guaranteed and stable employment. So the disabled, women who care for children, and others will have the opportunity to get jobs," Gorbunov told RIA Novosti on the sidelines of the Krasnoyarsk economic forum.
Seen as a key part of President Dmitry Medvedev's drive to modernize Russia's commodity-dependent economy, Skolkovo is intended to be an ultra-modern science community for the development and commercialization of new technologies.
The hub, set up just outside Moscow, will focus on research in five priority spheres: energy, information technology, communication, biomedical research and nuclear technology.
Source: en.rian.ru