Announced this Wednesday, the 3rd, the company Meta plans to train 50,000 young Brazilians, by the year 2023, in technologies related to the cloud, digital marketing and metaverse. Training will take place at Portal Tech, in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for diversity and inclusion. The purpose of the partnership and training of candidates is to increase opportunities in technological environments for women, blacks and LGBTQIA+ people.
Keep reading and learn more about the project in which AWS together with Meta Company generates IT skills!
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Training of workers
According to the AWS Global Digital Skills Study, there is a shortage of 530,000 professionals in the IT field, while thousands of Brazilians face unemployment or fall into the informal market. Also, by 2025, employers will need people with the ability to use cloud-based tools and general tech.
Therefore, Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced this Wednesday, 3rd, a plan to train 50 thousand Brazilians by AWS by 2023 in technology focused on cloud, digital marketing and virtual worlds technology.
How will the training work?
The plan consists of two phases. First, 25,000 people will be trained in the AWS Cloud Fundamentals course. The other half can take basic augmented reality (Spark AR) and digital marketing courses on Meta's Blueprint platform. In the second phase, 2,000 students who completed the initial training and showed an interest in using these technologies will receive introductory programming training through online technical skills courses and in person. To participate in this stage, candidates must have completed high school in a public school.
It is important to note that both courses offered will be free. Thus, the first webinar will be held on August 20th and registration is open on the official Portal Tech website.
research incentive
In addition to offering skills for the job market, AWS partnered this Tuesday with the National Council for the Advancement of Science e Tecnologia (CNPq) to donate USD 1.2 million in credits to use the cloud to support up to 23 research projects over a period of two years.