Atos becomes 01Talent’s technology partner in Africa to identify, train and connect the digital talent of tomorrow to jobs

Praia (Cape Verde) and Paris (France) – Oct 6, 2021

Atos and 01Expertise announce the start of a strategic partnership to help the acceleration of the electronic transformation in Africa, by enabling the dissemination of a superior-good quality, impressive and inclusive instruction plan on the continent.

01Talent’s ambition is to determine, train and join a person million substantial-level developers to the professional globe by 2035. As a result of this partnership, 01Expertise will be able to attract on Atos’ technological methods to assistance the many jobs underway.

In get to complete the pan-African marketing campaign developed to determine future electronic expertise, 01Talent, in partnership with the Didier Drogba Basis and UCLG Africa (United Towns and Nearby Governments Africa), will count on a technological platform formulated by Atos to host cognitive tests.

These on the internet assessments will be mini-online games accessible to all, requiring no prior coding knowledge. They will supply a measure of the cognitive expertise, creativeness and enthusiasm of candidates, and to detect higher-likely profiles who could not have been noticed by standard education and learning programs.

The students of the potential “Zone01”, chosen this way by the exams, will be qualified for 2 a long time to become large-amount inventive “Total Stack” developers, with a job at stake.

Zone01 Cabo-Verde, will be the 1st “Zone01” collective intelligence zone on the African continent, and is scheduled to open at Praia Techno Park in Cape Verde, early 2022. 200 young expertise from Cape Verde and from 26 other African husband or wife nations around the world will be welcomed in this “Zone01”and will be equipped with laptops by Atos. This very first “Zone01” will be the foundation for the deployment of the education and learning program which aims to develop more than 200 “Zone01” on the African continent.

Atos will also mobilize its staff about the environment by way of a mentoring plan to share knowledge and give own steerage to the students. This will give Atos an opportunity to build ties with Zone01 talent, and to employ the service of many college students during and just after their coaching.

It has also been agreed that Atos will establish inside the instructional platform, a curriculum to improve and establish the techniques of its staff, in immersion with the pupils of the long term “Zone01”.

“With this partnership, we reaffirm Atos’ ambition to assist the dynamics of the economic, social and environmental transformation of the African continent by way of training in digital capabilities. 01Talent’s especially inclusive and modern instructional give is a concrete expression of this ambition, and we are proud to be equipped to assist its deployment. This is an essential step in the enhancement of a digital sector in Africa” commented Nourdine Bihmane, EVP and Director of Rising Marketplaces at Atos.

“We are extremely joyful to give existence to a partnership that will allow us to assistance and combine the most promising digital talents into Atos’ groups. Atos and 01Expertise share the similar values and the same goal: to establish human cash by an inclusive and sustainable strategy in buy to facilitate the electronic and social transition of the African continent,” adds David Sultan, Vice President of 01Expertise in cost of Worldwide Functions.

“Atos in Africa is thoroughly mobilized to be certain the achievement of the university student collection campaign and to go on this collaboration in excess of the long phrase. At a time when the continent is heading digital, attracting talent is becoming a big strategic focus for our improvement,” provides Alpha Barry, Director of Atos in Africa.

Soon after Cape Verde, Atos and 01Expertise will establish their partnership with the opening of new “Zone01” on the African continent, in individual in Senegal.

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About Atos

Atos is a global chief in electronic transformation with 105,000 workers and once-a-year earnings of above € 11 billion. European range one in cybersecurity, cloud and higher performance computing, the Team supplies personalized finish-to-close options for all industries in 71 countries. A pioneer in decarbonization products and services and merchandise, Atos is dedicated to a protected and decarbonized digital for its clients. Atos operates less than the brand names Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the Up coming 20 Paris stock index.

The objective of Atos is to support design and style the upcoming of the information and facts space. Its experience and companies guidance the enhancement of expertise, education and learning and exploration in a multicultural method and add to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the globe, the Group enables its consumers and employees, and members of societies at substantial to stay, operate and create sustainably, in a safe and secure details place. www.atos.net

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About 01Talent

01Expertise is both equally a Talent manufacturing facility and a Expertise company which aims to establish, produce and connect to the expert world 1 million high-stage developers in the environment by 2035 through the mix of a proven pedagogical product and a sustainable and exponential small business product.

01Talent deploys globally some Facilities of Collective Intelligence named Zone01 which include things like teacherless coding colleges, IT Expertise Businesses and Electronic Reskilling products and services.

Its curriculum is centered on 01Edu, the best update of the “peer-to-peer” (teacherless) and gamified pedagogical strategy designed by Nicolas Sadirac and his workforce, a understanding system designed to deal with the rising worldwide scarcity of IT developers.

This pedagogical design which develops entrepreneurial spirit, creativity and collective intelligence has by now been deployed by our co-founder Nicolas Sadirac and his Alumni in more than 40 nations all-around the earth, education much more than 100,000 electronic Talents in the past 10 a long time.https://01-edu.org

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Valerie Gagliano | [email protected] | +33 6 33 73 24 89 | @valeriegagliano

 

Image: still left to ideal: David Sultan, International COO, 01Expertise Nourdine Bihmane, EVP and Director of Growing Markets, Atos Deror Sultan, Co-founder & CEO, 01Expertise.