Develop new analytics, cloud and data skills in Africa, IBM henceforth truly engaged: stakes and opportunities.
Congrats IBM, even if business is business, but Connectikpeople.co observes
your deep willingness to bring real solutions to problems by focusing on analytics,
and cloud technologies.
Your engagement in Africa has captured our
attention, and you know that, Conectikpeople.co is the leading and unique essential
tool intended for decision-makers and IT professionals across the world;
meaning that, Connectikpeople.co is seduces and ready to help you as usual to reach
thousands of African students for Big Data, analytics and cloud skills
training, education and recruiting.
Your IT knowledge-building initiatives
are welcome into the environment where the potentialities are huge. The real
stakes remain to enabling the existing and future workforce to develop new
analytics, cloud and data skills crucial to the continent's economic growth and
social development.
The mains challenges are identified: a lack of key infrastructures, a lack
of key skills and rapid urbanization and other factors. These factors are
billed as, the impediments to developing a cohesive technology base across
Africa, but this is also obvious that, these impediments represent amazing economic
opportunities.
Henceforth Big Data and the derived technology solutions that create
insight and actionable knowledge need to be an integral part of economic
development and part of the social fabric.
If unfamiliar, Connectikpeople.co recalls that, the IBM Africa Technical Institutes
include:
· Technical education to the IBM ecosystem of
clients and potential clients, business partners and academia to build the
knowledge and skills base of IBM IT users
· The Africa Technical Institute has
been rolled out in 11 countries.
· About 400 clients, 200 Business
Partners and 30 IBMers participated in 2013
Regarding the
software Skills enablement
· This program expands the technical
talent base in Africa by offering training and academic skills certification on
leading edge technology solutions such as Big Data, cloud computing and mobile
services
· Mobile-enabled education delivery and SaaS:
the goal is to create a pool of prospective new hires in Africa for clients,
business partners and IBM subsidiaries
· A personalized education portal
presents clear roadmaps and provides tests and tracking towards certifications
for next generation technologies
University
Relations and Faculty Awards
· IBM announced deep relationships with
universities to develop data-driven degree programs, coursework and
specialization tracks
· IBM announced that, they will award
grants to faculty to drive curriculum development and research that will
deliver business and technical solutions to advance the key industries of
Africa such as banking, telco and natural resources.
Recruitment is currently open:
http://www-05.ibm.com/employment/emea/africa/
