IBM’s new Academic Initiative for Cloud in our cloud-driven age.
At Connectikpeople.co, we are also proud to giving students and faculty exposure to the latest cloud technologies and
business concepts.
The stakes are huge when it comes to closing the skills gap between higher
education curricula and workforce needs.
Henceforth the Cloud is at the center of innovation within enterprises and
organizations. So it is now critical to demystifying coding and making it more accessible.
- open-standards-based Bluemix catalog includes over 100 tools and services of open-source technologies combined with IBM and third-party services like Watson, Internet of Things, Big Data & Analytics, and Mobile, among many others,
- more than 250 courses and programs that will utilize educational materials, technologies and methodologies from IBM with a focus on using Bluemix ,
- a new Student Developer Community that helps students get started on their journey of cloud education,
- Girls Who Code to introduce the next generation of women developers to cloud innovation,
Also included: the ReBoot Accelerator for Women, a program designed to help women become current, connected, and confident
as they return to work after a multi-year time off and the AngelHack
hackathons .
