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Don’t Take Our Word For It
Watch President Obama pitching what seems to be something similar to CodersTrust. This is really powerfull stuff. However, just imagine doing exactly what Obama is talking about, but just do it in countries like Bangladesh, Buthan, Kenya and Somaliland. Building a pipeline of tech worker for this new online on-demand freelance economy. That’s exactly what CodersTrust is all about.
“I want to focus on something very specific, and that is how can we work together to build a pipeline of tech workers for this new economy.“ "Now, we tend to think that all these tech jobs are in Silicon Valley, at companies like Google and eBay, or maybe in a few spots like Austin, Texas, where you’ve seen a tech industry thrive. But the truth is, two-thirds of these jobs are in non-high-tech industries like health care, or manufacturing, or banking, which means they’re in every corner of the country.” “it turns out, it doesn’t matter where you learned code, it just matters how good you are in writing code. If you can do the job, you should get the job”. “And while four-year degrees in engineering and computer science are still important, we have the opportunity to promote programs that we call, for example, coding boot camp – or online courses that have pioneered new ways to teach tech skills in a fraction of the time and the costs. And these new models have the potential to reach underserved communities, to reach women, who are still underrepresented”