Google launches digital skills training for Arabic speakers
As part of Google's focus on supporting digital literacy and STEM advocacy, the company has launched Maharat min Google ("Building Capabilities with Google"). This program is aimed at helping women and young people in the Arabic-speaking world "get ready for future job opportunities, advance their careers, or grow their businesses." The examples Google cites are training for social media, video, online marketing and e-commerce.
[...] It will consist of free courses, tools and in-person training to job seekers, educators, students and businesses. The organization is also partnering with INJAZ Al-Arab, with a $1 million grant to help the non-profit continue its work in helping students (especially women) with hands-on training for digital skills. What's more, Google is working with the MiSK foundation to provide training for 100,000 people in Saudi Arabia (50,000 of which will be women).
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday April 20 2018, @03:03AM (1 child)
Let the haraam homosexual infidels be beheaded.
But being serious here, I met a woman from Saudi Arabia in school. She was studying engineering, and she told me that as soon as she finishes school she wants to go back to Saudi Arabia and be a man's wife. Which means she'll be juice-sisters with up to three other women while being a slave to her household. Damn shame, too, because she was good lookin'.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Reziac on Saturday April 21 2018, @06:22AM
Also being serious: per what I've read, the objective in gaining a degree is to make a better marriage; in Arab culture, the degree is a status symbol.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @03:04AM
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @03:06AM (5 children)
That's what this is.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @03:09AM (1 child)
Arabic. Language. Services.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday April 20 2018, @03:13AM
More specifically, despite my comment above, Saudi Arabia now westernizing attitudes and laws regarding women, and the huge unexploited demographic for marketing that will closely follow.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @04:20AM (2 children)
Why discriminate against me?
Well, I'll do my best to discriminate against Google. I switched to duckduckgo for searches. Ditching the email is, sadly, much harder.
It seems that hating straight middle-aged American white males is all the rage these days. Oh hey, you know what else? Shit like that makes me respond in kind. If people are going to discriminate against people like me, then I'm going to favor people like me. Yep, I do that, and it started after I got discriminated against.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @10:21PM (1 child)
A MRA man-child wailed:
I think you can relax. Just because they are trying to do something nice for someone else doesn't mean they hate you. Your mom (probably) still loves you too. Go ahead and take a chill pill.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 21 2018, @04:45AM
Yeah, there's something wrong with GP. Women are frivolous and impotent, so it's nothing to worry about. Google is free to waste their time however they choose.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @03:14AM (5 children)
> This program is aimed at helping women and young people
So women are not people?
Is that really the message?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @03:34AM
Wow, you're really determined to find problems where there are none, eh? I fail to see a "XOR" in that sentence.
> This program is aimed at helping old women xor young people
Better?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @04:42AM (3 children)
Not really, they're more like a sink for money and resources that never quite contribute back as much as they take. They're tolerated parasites because they're the only place that we have to keep our fetuses. If we could invent an adequate incubator, we probably wouldn't tolerate the nonsense.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Friday April 20 2018, @05:12AM (2 children)
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @06:10AM
When the sperm generator stops working, who will they call to come fix it?
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday April 20 2018, @07:44AM
Probably don't even need that [depauw.edu].
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @04:13AM (1 child)
Are women people? They seem to be a distinct group from young people.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday April 20 2018, @05:57AM
Is an old woman in the set of young people?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by schusselig on Friday April 20 2018, @02:04PM (1 child)
rofl. I thought STEM was an acronym for "Science, Technology, Engineering and Math".
(Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Friday April 20 2018, @05:09PM
STEM = Social Media, Trendspotting, E-Commerce, and Marketing. I've never heard of your version of the acronym.
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