Microsoft, Sena and Fedesoft will teach Colombians about new technologies for free

The tech giant Microsfot announced this weekend that will launch a new initiative for Colombia called Training TechDays which, in alliance with Sena, Fedesoft, Ruta N and the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce, intends to offer free training in new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and data analytics.

A much-needed initiative for the country, which is indebted to the digital transformation, which became evident during the pandemic. This taking into account the words of Ximena Duque, the executive president of the Colombian Federation of the Software Industry and Related Information Technologies (Fedesoft), who points out that “The IT industry has a talent gap of 30,000 vacancies and the sector’s engagement rate is 89.8% with a down payment salary of $ 2,000,000 ”.

Situations that, according to the Dinero Magazine, result in indicators such as the IT talent ranking carried out by the World Competitiveness Center, IMD, Colombia is ranked 58th out of 63 nations; well below Switzerland, which ranked first, Spain, the first Spanish-speaking country to appear, in position 32, or Chile, the first of Latin Americans at 46.

This despite the fact that, as the head of the technology union recalls in a statement, the software and IT sector in the country “generates sales of 21.8 billion pesos, 135,000 quality jobs, since the main form of hiring in the sector is by permanent employment contract, it is the fourth largest country in Latin America in the IT market and 18% of the employees are young people between 18 and 25 years old ”.

A low rate taking into account the affinity that new generations have with these technologies and that different experts in the field, such as the former ICT minister, Diego Molano Vega, attribute to the current educational system. In this sense, they note from Vanguardia, the SNIES (National System of Higher Education) shows that, out of ten university students, only three study engineering and, of these, only one has competencies and skills related to data analytics, machine learning, programming and code which are precisely the knowledge most sought after by companies, as well as those addressed by the Microsoft initiative.

According to what has been published by the company, Training Tech Days will be a kind of massive two-day “training” where in addition to the technological trends mentioned, Topics such as Cloud Computing, development of solutions for remote work and data visualization will also be studied. They are courses designed for beginners and professionals who seek to reinforce and certify their knowledge.

To participate, it is only necessary to be of legal age and register through the events tab of the Microsoft website, specifying personal data and that’s it. The sessions They will be held virtually on December 15 and 16.

It is worth clarifying that the first day will be aimed at professionals in the IT industry, so courses with more advanced levels of complexity will be taught, such as ‘How to exploit the data of an organization?’ o ‘Accelerate Application Development with Power Platform’.

The second day, on the other hand, is for the participation of entrepreneurs and higher education students interested in starting or strengthening their technological knowledge, even if your area of ​​development is not close to science, mathematics or engineering.

There will also be access to the Microsoft Learn platform, where interested parties can use different learning paths and theoretical tests to consolidate and test the knowledge acquired. From this dynamic, The best scores with vouchers from the North American company will be awarded, applicable to do the certification exam for free.

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