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IBM, AWS set up talent-building programs for Indonesia
Lack of tech knowledge has been identified as a key hurdle to wider adoption of cloud computing in Indonesia, hence AWS and IBM have announced plans to set up educational facilities in the region.
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ack of tech knowledge has been identified as a key hurdle to wider adoption of cloud computing in Indonesia, hence Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM have announced plans to set up educational facilities in the region to serve their industry’s need for talent.
“We’re very interested in […] starting up [a cloud academy] somewhere in ASEAN. We haven't committed to a location for the hybrid cloud academy yet, [but] we're exploring aggressively [to find] where we could provide such an academy. And the purpose, of course, is to train thousands of people on technology,” IBM Asia-Pacific general manager Paul Burton told The Jakarta Post on Aug. 25.
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In the same spirit, AWS has committed Rp 71 trillion (US$4.8 billion) in investments in Indonesia for the next 15 years, which will cover tech education as well.
“We've already trained 300,000 Indonesians on the AWS cloud and we plan to train hundreds of thousands more over the next number of years,” AWS ASEAN managing director Conor McNamara told the Post on Wednesday.
In one of its programs, Laptop for Builders, AWS trains IT instructors of local schools on laptops it donates with the intent to penetrate the grassroots level.
“[We do that] because we believe that's kind of the barrier for [the students] to get access to cloud technologies,” McNamara said.
