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GET-IT programme extended to e-learning portal and new centres

Today, we officially launched the latest component of our Graduate Entrepreneurship Training through IT (GET-IT) programme, which is a web portal called GET-IT City! We also announced our 2009 plans to extend the programme to an additional 30 training centres in Africa, the Middle East and Russia to help address the high levels of youth unemployment in these markets.

If you have followed our latest blog entries you will know that GET-IT is one of our major social investment flagship programmes in EMEA. Briefly, GET-IT aims to help young people enter into professional life and, in many cases, it helps them launch their own businesses. Collectively, this helps to reduce youth unemployment. Working with our non-profit partners, we have trained 8,755 students since launching the programme in 2007. Approximately 60 per cent of students attending the GET-IT training have been able to find a job as a result.

Our newly launched virtual city provides young unemployed people and graduates with a fun way to learn IT and business skills through online games and video clips. You can find out more about the GET-IT City in our interview with Jelena Godjevac, CEO of Micro-Enterprise Acceleration Institute (MEA-I), our partner for the GET-IT programme.

At the moment, we deliver GET-IT training in 70 centres across 25 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and we have another 30 centres in the pipeline. The new centres and online portal combined will serve to enhance those trainings, enabling us to reach as many as 500,000 students by 2010.  We are also considering to integrate the games from the portal in other initiatives, e.g. our HP Responsible Business Competition, which is another social investment flagship programme developed with JA-YE.

Let me know what you think of the online portal and the games.

Daniela Opp, Social Investments and Economic Development, HP EMEA

 

Posted 11-13-2008 9:05 AM by Daniela.Opp
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owen wrote re: GET-IT programme extended to e-learning portal and new centres
on 11-13-2008 6:34 PM

in these challenging times GET-IT is  a wonderful demonstration of HP's commitment to the market and our efforts to be a good corporate citizen. especially emerging markets will appreciate our efforts and pay it back in full when the markets recover. I am proud that HP is extending its commitment to reach half a million people...

Jan Pierrel Mikkelsen wrote re: GET-IT programme extended to e-learning portal and new centres
on 11-14-2008 9:42 AM

How does one contribute to this beyond giving money?

Edward Kwaw wrote re: GET-IT programme extended to e-learning portal and new centres
on 11-14-2008 11:22 AM

Regarding the following statement: "In 2009, we are expanding the programme to include 30 new training centres in Africa, the Middle East and Russia...", I'd be interested to know which Countries in Africa are currently on your list.

Jo Levitt wrote re: GET-IT programme extended to e-learning portal and new centres
on 11-16-2008 12:51 PM

Great idea, but why does the project have the same name as HP's internal IT support system?

Daniela.Opp wrote re: GET-IT programme extended to e-learning portal and new centres
on 11-17-2008 3:16 PM

Dear Edward, thanks for your interest. We plan to launch 10 Centers in the Africa , 10 in the Middle East and 10 in Russia in the coming year. Together with our deployment partner UNIDO we are currently investigating possible partners in several African & Middle Eastern countries. As soon as it’s finally decided where exactly these centers will be, I’ll be sure to inform you on this blog.

Daniela.Opp wrote re: GET-IT programme extended to e-learning portal and new centres
on 11-17-2008 3:18 PM

Hello Jo, yes, it’s an unfortunate coincidence. We had our naming agreed before the internal IT programme was as visible as it is today. Best regards, Daniela

Daniela.Opp wrote re: GET-IT programme extended to e-learning portal and new centres
on 11-19-2008 4:04 PM

Dear Jan,

thanks for your interest in our GET-IT programme. We are always looking for volunteers in any of our GET-IT Centres. Please contact our partner, the Micro-Enterprise Acceleration Institute under our GET-IT homepage: www.graduate-training-through-it.net . We would be happy to welcome you in our volunteer team. Kind regards, Daniela

Audrey Potter wrote re: GET-IT programme extended to e-learning portal and new centres
on 11-19-2008 6:52 PM

HP South Africa has already invested heavily both in terms of corporate funding and man hours in our quest to develop IT skills across a broad-base in order to develop SMEs, our reseller channel of tomorrow.  Our graduates are put through a rigourous programme of 12 - 15 months.  Will the Get-IT initiative tie in with this in order to leverage resources and local know-how?

Dumi wrote re: GET-IT programme extended to e-learning portal and new centres
on 12-08-2008 11:04 AM

Please can you advise on how do I go by applying for the graduate programme

Daniela.Opp wrote re: GET-IT programme extended to e-learning portal and new centres
on 12-08-2008 12:41 PM

Hello, thank you for your interest in our GET-IT programme. On our homepage (www.graduate-training-through-it.net) you find information where we have GET-IT centres where you can participate. From 2009 we will particularly focus on Russia, Africa and Middle East. On the homepage you find all needed information. Kind regards, Daniela

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