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Spearheaded by German software company SAP, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) and Ireland's Galway Education Centre, the programme aims to tackle the unemployment that has accompanied the refugee crisis in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt by equipping participants with the type of technical know-how that is in increasingly high demand by employers.
Information and communications technology (ICT) spending in the Middle East and Africa will reach $260bn this year, according to the American market research firm IDC, while a recent survey of MENA educators by Microsoft found that just 32 percent include digital literacy as part of their curricula.
"The region has an acute lack of skills in the ICT area, yet there is growth in the market," Batoul Husseini, the corporate social responsibility manager for SAP MENA, tells Al Jazeera. "Bridging this skills gap is a great opportunity for those countries most affected by the refugee crisis."
Read more at aljazeera.com
(Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 28 2016, @05:35PM
It's only the the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. [amnesty.org.nz]
190,000 men, women and children dead. Fuck those guys though, amiright, they're just looking for handouts, not fleeing the threat of death.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday October 28 2016, @07:05PM
Just wait until one of them rapes you or your wife because of a "sexual emergency," then firebombs your favorite grocery store and slits a few throats in the street.
Boo-fucking hoo. Those military-aged males with designer jackets and iPods are cowards who left their wives and kids behind, and they will die groveling on their knees like the cowards they are.
Look at Sweden. In only a few years it transformed from a shining beacon of an example of a successful society to a third-world country as safe as Somalia. People are dumb for being manipulated into feeling even a smidgen of sympathy for those savages. They have no respect for you, your culture, or country. They are parasitic savage vermin.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 28 2016, @07:43PM
I worry more about cowards like you than I do brown people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @09:35PM
Sweden? Hello friend! Can I smoke some of what you've got!
In pretty much any "best country in the world" list since forever - including 2016 (which I believe is this year unless I've been mooching too much off your 2nd hand smoke) - Sweden comes out in the top 10 and more often the top 3.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @02:21AM
These people oppose my way of life. Some would kill me if they had a chance, and nearly all of the rest would silently approve.
In a liberal western society, they would gain control and ultimately replace that society with their own barbaric society. This is partly intentional; many have expressed a desire to win by immigrating and breeding. It is partly unintentional; they like some benefits of western society (particularly the prosperity and safety) but will destroy it due to the nature of their culture.
I'd rather my grandchildren not lose a civil war and then face genocide. I prefer that the suffering and dying happen to other people in far off lands. I especially prefer that it happen to those who would gladly impose it on my and my descendants.
Do not press the self-destruct button for your own culture.