The Sri Lanka Association of Software Services Companies (SLASSCOM) together with Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its knowledge and skills mission to train 50,000 students in the country by 2022 .
The initiative is driven through the ‘AWS Educate’ global program with the intention of positioning Sri Lanka as a hub for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) skills. It also helps education institutes of Sri Lanka to start Degree programs with enhanced curriculum, provide access to virtual Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) labs and High Performance Computing (HPC) on the cloud to accommodate higher study programs and research initiatives.
SLASSCOM will assists AWS to partner with both state and private Universities to create labs, to access the AWS cloud platform and establish a computer system to train the trainers.
AWS Educate provides students and educators with the resources needed to accelerate cloud related learning and to empower the workforce of tomorrow.
The education curriculum of the program is constantly updated based on the demand and customer requests and is available free of charge for the students. There are over 2,400 institutions worldwide that uses AWS Educate program and over 100,000 students that enroll and get educated.This is an optional module provided by the AWS for Universities to integrate it to their curriculum. Through AWS Educate, students will gain the chance to use AWS services and tools, learning contents and hands on activities designed to help students gain practical experience in learning the basics of cloud computing, gain access to 12 cloud carrier pathways covering in – demand topics such as ML, cyber security and software development and the AWS Educate Job Board with job and internship opportunities from Amazon and other companies in the AWS partner network. For people and businesses to succeed, skills are of vital importance and they should be modified as per the advancing requirements. “The availability of skills defines the growth of platforms,” said President, Public sector Amazon Internet Services Private Limited, Rahul Sharma.
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