Atos becomes 01Talent’s technology partner in Africa to identify, train and connect the digital talent of tomorrow to jobs
Praia (Cape Verde) and Paris (France) – Oct 6, 2021
Atos and 01Talent announce the start of a strategic partnership to assistance the acceleration of the digital transformation in Africa, by enabling the dissemination of a higher-high-quality, impressive and inclusive education system on the continent.
01Talent’s ambition is to establish, practice and join one million higher-stage builders to the skilled environment by 2035. By this partnership, 01Talent will be equipped to attract on Atos’ technological assets to assistance the several initiatives underway.
In purchase to comprehensive the pan-African marketing campaign created to establish upcoming digital talent, 01Talent, in partnership with the Didier Drogba Basis and UCLG Africa (United Metropolitan areas and Nearby Governments Africa), will depend on a technological platform designed by Atos to host cognitive tests.
These on line tests will be mini-game titles available to all, demanding no prior coding encounter. They will provide a evaluate of the cognitive techniques, creativity and determination of candidates, and to establish higher-prospective profiles who could not have been spotted by conventional training devices.
The college students of the upcoming “Zone01”, picked this way by the tests, will be experienced for two decades to come to be higher-stage resourceful “Entire Stack” builders, with a position at stake.
Zone01 Cabo-Verde, will be the very first “Zone01” collective intelligence zone on the African continent, and is scheduled to open up at Praia Techno Park in Cape Verde, early 2022. 200 young talent from Cape Verde and from 26 other African spouse nations will be welcomed in this “Zone01”and will be provided with laptops by Atos. This very first “Zone01” will be the foundation for the deployment of the training system which aims to build a lot more than 200 “Zone01” on the African continent.
Atos will also mobilize its staff all over the environment via a mentoring system to share abilities and give personal direction to the college students. This will give Atos an possibility to build ties with Zone01 talent, and to hire several college students through and soon after their education.
It has also been agreed that Atos will establish in just the academic platform, a curriculum to make improvements to and establish the techniques of its staff, in immersion with the college students of the upcoming “Zone01”.
“With this partnership, we reaffirm Atos’ ambition to assistance the dynamics of the economic, social and environmental transformation of the African continent via education in digital techniques. 01Talent’s specifically inclusive and impressive academic present is a concrete expression of this ambition, and we are proud to be equipped to assistance its deployment. This is an crucial phase in the growth of a digital sector in Africa” commented Nourdine Bihmane, EVP and Director of Increasing Marketplaces at Atos.
“We are pretty pleased to give lifestyle to a partnership that will make it possible for us to assistance and integrate the most promising digital abilities into Atos’ groups. Atos and 01Talent share the same values and the same target: to establish human cash via an inclusive and sustainable method in purchase to facilitate the digital and social changeover of the African continent,” adds David Sultan, Vice President of 01Talent in charge of World wide Operations.
“Atos in Africa is thoroughly mobilized to guarantee the results of the university student assortment marketing campaign and to continue on this collaboration more than the very long phrase. At a time when the continent is going digital, attracting talent is turning out to be a main strategic concentrate for our growth,” adds Alpha Barry, Director of Atos in Africa.
Just after Cape Verde, Atos and 01Talent will establish their partnership with the opening of new “Zone01” on the African continent, in individual in Senegal.
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About Atos
Atos is a world wide chief in digital transformation with a hundred and five,000 staff and once-a-year income of more than € 11 billion. European variety one in cybersecurity, cloud and higher efficiency computing, the Group provides tailored finish-to-finish solutions for all industries in 71 nations. A pioneer in decarbonization companies and products, Atos is fully commited to a secure and decarbonized digital for its customers. Atos operates below the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), detailed on the Future 20 Paris stock index.
The objective of Atos is to enable style the upcoming of the information space. Its abilities and companies assistance the growth of information, training and research in a multicultural method and lead to the growth of scientific and technological excellence. Across the environment, the Group permits its consumers and staff, and members of societies at large to live, operate and establish sustainably, in a harmless and secure information space. www.atos.net
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About 01Talent
01Talent is both equally a Expertise manufacturing unit and a Expertise company which aims to establish, establish and join to the skilled environment one million higher-stage builders in the environment by 2035 via the mix of a confirmed pedagogical product and a sustainable and exponential company product.
01Talent deploys globally some Facilities of Collective Intelligence named Zone01 which incorporate teacherless coding universities, IT Expertise Organizations and Digital Reskilling companies.
Its curriculum is dependent on 01Edu, the greatest improve of the “peer-to-peer” (teacherless) and gamified pedagogical method designed by Nicolas Sadirac and his team, a learning platform created to deal with the growing world wide shortage of IT builders.
This pedagogical product which develops entrepreneurial spirit, creativity and collective intelligence has already been deployed by our co-founder Nicolas Sadirac and his Alumni in a lot more than 40 nations all over the environment, education a lot more than one hundred,000 digital Skills in the last ten decades.https://01-edu.org
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Valerie Gagliano | [email protected] | +33 6 33 73 24 89 | @valeriegagliano
Picture: still left to appropriate: David Sultan, World wide COO, 01Talent Nourdine Bihmane, EVP and Director of Increasing Marketplaces, Atos Deror Sultan, Co-founder & CEO, 01Talent.