MACRI ANNOUNCED THE RELEASE OF 10,000 TRAINING GRANTS TO PROMOTE DIGITAL ACCESS TO A FIRST JOB
President Mauricio Macri announced the introduction of a training program
that provides for the grant of 10. 000 scholarships in order to promote
access to employment and a first digital argued that this initiative
demonstrates "once again that when government and business work in team
opportunities multiply for Argentines. " "The result of this collaborative
work are 10. 000 scholarships we are launching today for thousands of
Argentines can be trained in digital tools and get jobs in an industry that
has a lot to offer," he said. The Head of State made the announcement when
speaking this afternoon at the Forum Talent Digital 2019 which was held in
the Hall of Indigenous Peoples of the Casa Rosada, where he was accompanied
by the deputy chief of staff, Andrés Ibarra, also in charge of the Ministry
of Government Modernization. The event brought together representatives
from over 70 companies, chambers of industry and leaders of the digital
ecosystem. Also it attended by the secretaries of Management and Public
Innovation, María Inés Baque; of entrepreneurs and SMEs, Mariano Mayer;
Planning and Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation, Jorge Aguado,
executive director of the National Institute of Technological Education,
Leandro Goroyesky, and the head of the Enacom, Silvana Giudici among other
authorities. Macri stressed that the aim of generating employment is one of
the main pillars of the digital agenda being implemented by the national
government. He said the challenge aims to "bring you closer to thousands of
Argentines the opportunity for training in jobs that are in high
demand". "Today you that in many companies there are empty chairs because
there is a significant shortage of people with training in digital tools,
programmers, repairmen pc, digital marketing analysts, software development
will tell me," he said. "So it is that we will give this grant to 10,000
Argentines so they can be trained on these tools, and so will be able to
occupy that space," he said. "It Consider that within three years more than
half of workers in the world will need to retrain to be in tune with
technology," he added. He said that "Argentines have talent, creativity and
determination to see this as an opportunity". "And it started with the Law
of the Knowledge Economy Congress who voted almost unanimously and that is
an example to expand our possibilities in the future of work," he said.
Macri said that "it is time to look to the future with your feet in this"
because "what we do today directly impacts what happens tomorrow." "And I
do not mean the coming months or the next year, we are talking about future
generations," said the President. The government program will take people
with no previous experience in the industry and become programmers,
analysts digital marketing, data science and other profiles, which in the
future will work on any project software development and electronic
commerce. The scholarships, funded entirely by the state, will be
supplemented with EPT (Job Training), including professional training. In
this context, there are 500 seats insured interested companies such as
Accenture, RedHat, EY and MercadoLibre, while signing a manifesto will be
promoted by the Digital Talent, which implies a commitment to cooperation
between the state and cameras and companies.
that provides for the grant of 10. 000 scholarships in order to promote
access to employment and a first digital argued that this initiative
demonstrates "once again that when government and business work in team
opportunities multiply for Argentines. " "The result of this collaborative
work are 10. 000 scholarships we are launching today for thousands of
Argentines can be trained in digital tools and get jobs in an industry that
has a lot to offer," he said. The Head of State made the announcement when
speaking this afternoon at the Forum Talent Digital 2019 which was held in
the Hall of Indigenous Peoples of the Casa Rosada, where he was accompanied
by the deputy chief of staff, Andrés Ibarra, also in charge of the Ministry
of Government Modernization. The event brought together representatives
from over 70 companies, chambers of industry and leaders of the digital
ecosystem. Also it attended by the secretaries of Management and Public
Innovation, María Inés Baque; of entrepreneurs and SMEs, Mariano Mayer;
Planning and Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation, Jorge Aguado,
executive director of the National Institute of Technological Education,
Leandro Goroyesky, and the head of the Enacom, Silvana Giudici among other
authorities. Macri stressed that the aim of generating employment is one of
the main pillars of the digital agenda being implemented by the national
government. He said the challenge aims to "bring you closer to thousands of
Argentines the opportunity for training in jobs that are in high
demand". "Today you that in many companies there are empty chairs because
there is a significant shortage of people with training in digital tools,
programmers, repairmen pc, digital marketing analysts, software development
will tell me," he said. "So it is that we will give this grant to 10,000
Argentines so they can be trained on these tools, and so will be able to
occupy that space," he said. "It Consider that within three years more than
half of workers in the world will need to retrain to be in tune with
technology," he added. He said that "Argentines have talent, creativity and
determination to see this as an opportunity". "And it started with the Law
of the Knowledge Economy Congress who voted almost unanimously and that is
an example to expand our possibilities in the future of work," he said.
Macri said that "it is time to look to the future with your feet in this"
because "what we do today directly impacts what happens tomorrow." "And I
do not mean the coming months or the next year, we are talking about future
generations," said the President. The government program will take people
with no previous experience in the industry and become programmers,
analysts digital marketing, data science and other profiles, which in the
future will work on any project software development and electronic
commerce. The scholarships, funded entirely by the state, will be
supplemented with EPT (Job Training), including professional training. In
this context, there are 500 seats insured interested companies such as
Accenture, RedHat, EY and MercadoLibre, while signing a manifesto will be
promoted by the Digital Talent, which implies a commitment to cooperation
between the state and cameras and companies.