[kictanet] SAP and Kenya ICT Board Partner on Skills Develeopment

[Walubengo J]

Areba,

I see you raise the Open-source dimension - and knowing Barack's preference, I can now understand his worries.  That perhaps, we should be investing in  training for Open Source related ERPs...instead.

My view is that it is a big industry, big enough for BOTH Open Source (Linux+)  and Proprietary Solutions (M$, SAP, Oracle) etc. Even though I openly prefer Open Source platforms (writing from my Linux Laptop, run OpenSource Internet Infrastructure at the University, etc)  I dont believe that Proprietary Solutions MUST DIE in order for Open Source Solutions to THRIVE or vice-versa. 


And as a University College, MMU is prepared to train for the whole industry, Open Source, Proprietary and Emerging. Just to prove it, Evans Ikua  was at MMU the other Month and we should be declared an LPI training center soon. So you see, we should embrace all technologies and apply them in different contexts as and when circumstances dictate.

walu.



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 From: Paul Kukubo <pkukubo at ict.go.ke>
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Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] SAP and Kenya ICT Board Partner on Skills Develeopment
 

Areba

This project is about jobs. 100 Kenyans will develop skills that are imediately required by the market.
The installed base of SAP in Kenya is substantial from Nation Media Group, to Bidco, to many other large and medium sized business and some state corporations. This base is growing. 

The ICT Board intends to extend these partnerships to drive high talent development. This is the first. There are many areas and many projects that don't have the requisite skills and there are even more Kenyans who don't have jobs. Many parents will not agree to pay for a child to certify further once he is out of college. Indeed many can't afford it.

Skinning this cat of ICT job creation requires many knives. 

Regards
Paul KUKUBO
CEO Kenya ICT Board





On Thursday, September 20, 2012, Areba Collins [ @BrainiacKE ® ]  wrote:

I wonder how this bodes with the recent discussion about the Government 's Intention to go Open Source..... 
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>>Kenyan Government and SAP to expand skill set of local graduates
>>Training aims at improving youth employability in the country’s robust ICT sector and is inline with vision 2030
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>>Nairobi 20th September, 2012…The government of Kenya through the Kenya ICT Board and SAP has today announced a partnership that will see 100 bright but underprivileged studentsundergo training to become certified SAP Software engineers.
>>Dubbed “SAP Skills for Africa”, the Programme commits to deliver professional training and certification to Kenyan university graduates. The programme will seek to substantially improve the employability of young, bright university graduatesand equally deliver on the government’s mandate to promote digital inclusion, to forge Kenya as an ICT hub for Africa and drive ICT skills development.   
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>>“The SAP partnership is key in equipping our young professionals with high end ICT skills that are on demand in the Kenya and the wider East African Market. This effort provides amuch needed skillset for graduates who would otherwise not have had the privilege to be exposed to this specific set of world class skills", said Kenya ICT Board CEO, Paul Kukubo.
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