Learn how to access free courses from Amazon Web Services, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Mintic

The call is part of the ICT 2022 Mission, a program that seeks to train 100,000 young people and adults in programming

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The Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies announced that Amazon Web Services, CISCO, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle joined forces to train and certify 10,000 Colombians in programming for free.

According to the portfolio, the alliance was created within the framework of ICT Mission 2022, a government strategy that seeks to train more than 60,000 people during 2022 and benefit a total of 100,000 young people and adults in the country.

Likewise, he specified that “for 2020 and 2021, within the framework of alliances with these entities, free courses were implemented for the shortlisted and graduated from the ICT Mission in the Training Room, so that they could strengthen their knowledge, impacting around 15,000 Colombians with digital badges. As a team we seek to promote activities that allow the transfer of knowledge and the strengthening of programming skills to the general public.”

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Those interested in being part of the program can do so by filling out the registration form at: misiontic2022.mintic.gov.co/mt2022/

In this way, it will be possible to access the courses through an exclusive space on the program's website called 'programming courses', where the contents and courses on different topics that the student can choose and deepen will rest.

It should be noted that courses, which are 100% free, will be conducted virtually and, on average, last more than 150 hours.

The courses are aimed at Colombian citizens over 14 years of age, in some cases they may be over 18 years old, this depending on the terms and conditions of some of the allies.

It should be noted that people who were beneficiaries of the 2020 or 2021 cohort, or are part of the current ICT 2022 training who are already enrolled in public universities or are in the process of registering for one of the private universities, cannot register for this new call. However, this audience is invited to disseminate the call.

To date, Misión TIC 2022 has allowed 59,995 Colombians to start their programming training: 11,837 on 'Route 1' and 48,158 on 'Route 2'. Of the total, 45,382 have already received training certificates.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will provide programming fundamentals with an emphasis on fundamental concepts of cloud computing, application development, web development, and DevOps, using AWS cloud computing services.

Similarly, Cisco will provide courses on programming fundamentals in Python. For its part, IBM will give courses on Java Programming, React Native and Spring Framework development.

In addition, Microsoft will offer courses on programming fundamentals with an emphasis on Azure and Oracle will offer the course on programming fundamentals in Java.

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