Talento Digital para Chile

Digital transformation and the accelerated advancement of artificial intelligence are profoundly changing the structure of employment, productivity, and the capabilities required by economies. According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025, it is estimated that 39% of the skills required in the labor market will change by 2030 and that 6 out of 10 workers will need reskilling or upskilling processes in the coming years to respond to new productive demands.

Automation, the incorporation of generative artificial intelligence, and the digitalization of productive processes are transforming industries across the board, creating new opportunities as well as significant adaptation challenges for workers, companies, and training systems.

In Chile, this scenario is especially relevant given the country’s historic productivity gaps, the need to move toward a more knowledge-intensive economy, and the challenges associated with generating formal and sustainable employment. The country’s ability to capture the opportunities of the digital economy will depend, to a large extent, on its capacity to develop relevant human capital and respond in a timely manner to the new demands of the labor market.

In this context, reskilling and upskilling become strategic tools to facilitate labor reconversion processes, strengthen people’s employability, and enable the productive transformation of companies.

In response to this challenge, Talento Digital para Chile emerged in 2019 as a public-private initiative aimed at coordinating training processes aligned with the needs of the digital economy and generating mechanisms to expand access to quality jobs in high-demand areas.

In this way, the initiative is consolidated as a model for coordination among training, employability, and the productive sector, contributing to the development of relevant capacities to address the productivity, competitiveness, and growth challenges posed by the country’s digital transformation.

Talento Digital para Chile seeks to contribute to the development of relevant human capital for the digital economy, bringing together the public sector, companies, training institutions, and people around a common goal: facilitating labor reskilling processes and expanding access to quality jobs in high-demand areas.

Since 2019, the initiative has promoted intensive training programs using a bootcamp methodology, lasting between 3 and 6 months, focused on developing digital and workplace skills aligned with the real needs of industry and the country’s productive transformation challenges.

Its focus has been on both entry-level programs into the digital world and specialization pathways, prioritizing profiles with high labor demand, including: Full Stack Java, JavaScript, and Python Application Development; data analysis; UX/UI design; agility; cybersecurity; and other emerging technologies.

In this way, Talento Digital seeks to strengthen people’s employability, reduce talent gaps in strategic sectors, and contribute to Chile’s productive and competitive development in the context of digital transformation.

The program was highlighted in an OECD report as a coordinating initiative for the challenges of human capital transformation and preparation. In 2022, it received the Sustainability Hub Award in the Innovation in Education category; in 2023, the Avonni Award for Innovation in Education; and in 2026, it received the Colaborax Award in the Digital Transformation category.

This initiative contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goals: