Jobs Creation Commission (JCC) and Huawei signed a memorandum of understanding to cultivate ICT talent ecosystem in Ethiopia. The ecosystem will help students and professional to get internationally recognized certification and develop better carrier path in telecom and IT sector.
Under this collaboration, Huawei’s training and certification will build a career path for new graduates, students, equip entrepreneurs with the latest trends in the industry. The Ecosystem will also accredit local work force with international standards through Job Creation Commissions skill development, entrepreneurship and oversees employment programs.
This program is planned to train and certify 800 professionals in the first year and 4000 with in the coming 3 years to be competent professionals in the local and international Labor market. In the first year of rollout, Huawei – JCC ICT Ecosystem aims to raise awareness from the pubic, promote job opportunity’s, training and certifications with 40 universities that will be scaled up to cover 100 Universities and TVET institutions in the next three years.