Indian firm Pratian Technologies, in partnership with local consultancy company Rabah Consulting, reaches out to 10,000 Filipinos who are willing to scale-up their skills set on information technology through the Skill Assure program.
Pratian Technologies is a top tech company based in Bangalore, India that offers skills upgrading assistance to individuals, arming them with rapid and high-level information technology certificate courses. There are about 150 IT courses to choose from the program.
“It’s a great opportunity for Filipinos to come together, use technology and build their own applications, not just solve the rest of the problems, create hyper local solutions, create solutions that they can see and feel they can give their population,” said Subramanian Sivakumar, chairman and CEO of Pratian Technologies.
“And in the process of doing this, they can also become fascinating tech entrepreneurs, and we would like to do them a great opportunity to work with the rest of the people in the world. So one of our goals is to have people from different cultures, different geographies and time zones to come together and collaborate to innovate,” said Sivakumar.
SkillAssure is a business unit of Pratian technologies and it is into IT Skilling & Assessment. It is a complete end-to-end digital ecosystem for future skills, innovation and entrepreneurship with 100 percent job placement in the technology industry.
The project aims to combat the employment challenges due to the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis in the Philippines.
The program will have an instructor-led session via live webinar, live interaction with industry professionals, collaboration sessions, the experience of the Software Development Life Cycle and about 20 different technologies and 8 different tools. During the session, students will discover their area of interest in the technology landscape.
SkillAssure started in the tech hub of Bangalore, where most of the most successful and innovative startups thrive. Over more than a decade, its rapid IT skills development programs have been validated by Forbes 500 companies in over 50 countries all over the world.
In the Philippines, Pratian and Rabah will introduce SkillAssure DiscoveriProgram, a five-day free intensive training and assessment on Industry 4.0 technologies and frameworks. Industry 4.0 refers to a new phase in the ‘Industrial Revolution’ that focuses profoundly on interconnectivity, automation, machine learning, and real-time data. Othel V. Campos
Discoveri has multiple benefits for students. If selected, students will gain secured employment or will have an opportunity to innovate and accelerate their startup ideas and receive funds to establish their own company. Selected students will have a chance to be coached by global mentors and thought leaders Berkley, MIT Innovation Labs, Accel and Sumeru.
If not selected but have completed the session and assessments, they will receive a certificate of program completion which can be used in their employment profile. The learning that they get will help them become ready for job interviews.
Discoveri will be available at no cost to the first 300 students across the Philippines. This will be offered to senior high school graduates, technical-vocational completers, graduating college students, new hires and professionals in the Philippines. The session is free for students across the country.
Filipinos can also avail of blockchain, machine learning, big data and artificial intelligence skills through SkillAssure. The IT certificate course training will be tentatively launched in October this year.
Sivukumar said the Philippines is now known for IT services, especially in the back office, voice and IT enabled services or ITE.
“Philippines has come along a long way. Nobody would have thought 20 years back that the Philippines would be a global destination for IT services. It was more known for agriculture, manufacturing and tourism. And we believe that through this partnership, we can nurture the talent for the next level of innovation, where we can help people to pick up skills in industry 4.0 and beyond,” he said.
“We would also like to teach people that making a startup is not rocket science, how to actually do research, and how to validate an idea, and how to convert those ideas into a prototype. We will never stray from the purpose, we will make sure that we enable local people and help them to achieve high quality innovation, acquire high quality skills,” he said.
“Our humble effort is to skill at least 10,000 people in Philippines and identify thousands of strong innovators, help them pursue responsible, digital innovation, and then enable hundreds of high tech startups,” he said.
Globally, SkillAssure has received the interests from 30,000 students and trained over 12,000 on Industry 4.0 experiential technologies and frameworks in the last seven months.