A remarkable observation is that the majority of our participants have more that on affiliation, or to put more concretely, are part-timers. This is notable in the case of the researchers affiliated with the ministries of agriculture and animal resources, and also with other research centers as can be seen in Fig \ref{189578}A.  While in most cases, their other governmental bodies did not pay for the course, the dedication of time from those parties hints at the appreciation of these parties to equiping their researchers with modern and new techniqes
Yet, there is the unemployment ratio of 11%. It is hard to conclusively say that by enrolling in the IBT some believed it would enhance their employability, there is data suggesting that some participants received teaching positions in newly established faculties to teach bioinformatics  (personal communication - Ayah, confirm)