Amazon And Meta Announce Program Aimed At Empowering 50,000 Brazilians For Future Opportunities In The Metaverse

Written by Valdemar Medeiros

Published on 07/08/2022 at 09:49

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Amazon and Meta Are Developing a Training Program for Brazilians Over 18 Focused on Future Opportunities in the Metaverse, Prioritizing the Training of Women, LGBTQIA+, Vulnerable Individuals, and Others.

Meta, owner of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, announced a training project for 50,000 Brazilians in cloud technologies, digital marketing, and metaverse-related fields by 2023. The initiative will be launched in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) within a new program called Portal Tech.

Requirements to Participate in the Metaverse Training Program

The project by Amazon and Meta is aimed at individuals over 18, targeting those who graduated from public schools, with a priority for training women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and Black individuals in the states of São Paulo, Paraná, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Pernambuco, Amazonas, and Alagoas.

The initiative for the Metaverse aims to provide training for a large number of people and meet the demand for cloud computing talent across Latin America. The partnership between Meta and Amazon focuses on fostering a virtuous cycle by training individuals in social vulnerability, whether they are young people at the start of their career or experienced professionals seeking to relocate in the job market.

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The Metaverse Training Project Will Be Carried Out in Two Phases

The project by Amazon and Meta will be divided into two phases, with the first starting in August, aimed at training 25,000 people in AWS cloud fundamentals, provided free of charge by Ka Solution, a partner of Amazon.

The other 25,000 people will have access to free basic courses in digital marketing and augmented reality on Meta’s Blueprint platform.

The second phase will provide spaces for 2,000 students from 17 cities to use computers, where the professional school Proz Educação has physical units or partnerships.

As a requirement, students must undergo initial training and demonstrate interest in working with these technologies.

To participate, candidates must have graduated from high school at a public school, and criteria of gender and race will also be considered, prioritizing Black individuals and women as mentioned earlier.

Selected candidates will be trained in Introduction to Programming in an online and in-person course focused on technical skills such as introduction to programming in Javascript, Node JS, introduction to web services, and databases.

The cities benefiting from the units or partnerships of Proz Educação are:

Belo Horizonte;
Diadema;
Mogi das Cruzes;
Guarulhos;
Contagem;
Maceió;
Carapicuíba;
Sacomã;
Goiânia;
Juiz de Fora;
Recife;
Montes Claros;
Uberlândia;
Divinópolis;
Manaus;
Campo Limpo;
Curitiba.

Students in the Amazon and Meta training courses who do not have a computer at home can use equipment from Proz or partner organizations.

Get to Know the Portal Tech Program

Portal Tech is a program developed by Amazon and Meta to open a portal of access to knowledge about some of the fastest-growing technologies in the world, such as cloud computing, digital marketing, and the metaverse.

The aims of the program are to introduce these technologies to people unfamiliar with the sector and to provide free training to young people and adults graduated from public schools who have an interest in working in this market, focusing on increasing the participation of currently underrepresented groups in technology.

Amazon And Meta Announce Program Aimed At Empowering 50,000 Brazilians For Future Opportunities In The Metaverse

Amazon and Meta Are Developing a Training Program for Brazilians Over 18 Focused on Future Opportunities in the Metaverse, Prioritizing the Training of Women, LGBTQIA+, Vulnerable Individuals, and Others.

Requirements to Participate in the Metaverse Training Program

The Metaverse Training Project Will Be Carried Out in Two Phases

Get to Know the Portal Tech Program

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