I find it rather short-sighted to say that job training should be completely focused on training for currently available jobs. Development means moving the entire society to a new level doesn't it? Part of a country's information infrastructure is having the people to be able to deploy, manage, maintain, start businesses, etc. So the effect of graduating the Cisco center may not be immediate employment but it seems a necessary but not sufficent step in the right direction.
In the absence of a private sector that can hire the newly trained graduates, the burden falls to the public sector to put in place programs that demand these new skills. Is there an initiative that encourages and incentivizes GOU to deploy information technology throughout the government? This is not just an employment scheme; IT encourages efficiency of gov't programs, increased transparency of gov't operations, increases links/business ties with first world and other advanced African countries. But just as importantly such an initiative provides the infrastructure that a private sector industry can take advantage of. Richard Koman anywhere books www.anywherebooks.org On Apr 6, 2004, Tariq Mohammed wrote: >> 1. Should we be churning out hundreds of CCNAs every year when there >> are not nearly enough jobs to take them in? > > I agree, the issue of jobs is one of the most crucial indicators of the > impact of the Academy Program. I am not aware of any formal market size > studies for computer networking graduates in Uganda but most government > officials say it is expected to grow over time. Currently, over 60 > percent of CCNA graduates in Uganda are employed in the private and > public sectors. > >> 2. Is the CCNA program a revenue stream for Cisco? > > Cisco requires that all its academies under the LDC Initiative operate > on a cost-recovery basis. Thus, as far as I can tell, there is no direct > revenue stream for Cisco. Of course there are indirect benefits such as > building a market of ICT professionals who may end up working for Cisco > to generate more profits. ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
