Cisco Launches Nation Digital Acceleration Program in Ukraine

Because the struggle in Ukraine started, Cisco has stood by the nation’s facet: serving to defend its important infrastructure towards cyberattacks, establishing Wi-Fi connectivity for Ukrainian refugees, and offering Ukrainians with IT schooling to construct their digital abilities and employability by way of  Begin IT. Cisco4Ukraine. Many of those initiatives have been spearheaded and punctiliously coordinated by Cisco’s Nation Digital Acceleration (CDA) program, in partnership with native ecosystem companions and supported by the Ukrainian authorities.

This summer time, we have been proud to broaden on our dedication by launching the following wave of Cisco’s CDA program initiatives in Ukraine. On the Ukraine Restoration Convention in London, CDA Vice President for EMEA Chris Reeves and I joined Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister for Innovation, Training, Science and Know-how Improvement Михайло Федоров/Mykhailo Fedorov and Deputy Minister for Eurointegration, Ministry of Digital Transformation Валерія Іонан/Valeriya Ionan to signal a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to assist additional safe the nation’s important infrastructure, promote ubiquitous web connectivity, and supply coaching in cybersecurity and networking by way of the Cisco Networking Academy.

Ukraine is now one among 49 nations taking part in Cisco’s CDA program, a strategic partnership with authorities management to carry to life components of a nationwide digital agenda and create new worth for a rustic, its industries, and residents. As a part of this system, Cisco and the Ukrainian authorities will collaborate on the next important areas:

Cisco Networking Academy and Expertise Bridge — Rising Ukraine’s Digital Workforce

At a time when the one fixed is uncertainty, at the very least two issues are clear: digital abilities are in demand in every single place, and when the struggle is over, Ukraine will want a workforce able to rebuild and defend its important IT infrastructure from day one. To assist residents reskill and upskill for the digital financial system regardless of the place they’re, Cisco Networking Academy coaching programs in networking, cybersecurity, information science and extra might be made obtainable on the Diia.Training platform, Ukraine’s free digital studying hub that connects customers to employers by creating individualized schooling roadmaps.

Cisco Networking Academy is likely one of the longest-standing IT skills-to-jobs packages on this planet, coaching learners in important digital abilities and enabling them to earn industry-recognized Digital Badges and certifications that unlock employment alternatives within the digital financial system. The Diia.Training platform may even hook up with the Cisco Expertise Bridge Matching Engine, a device that makes it simpler for HR managers to search out candidates in 190 nations and helps learners discover and apply for jobs that match their ability degree.

Training for CDTOs — Supporting Ukraine’s Chief Digital Transformation Officers

Working with the Ministry of Digital Transformation (MDT), Cisco will assist the technological growth of Ukraine’s Chief Digital Transformation Officers (CDTOs), the leaders of the county’s digitization efforts on the ministry and native authorities degree. Along with leveraging in-country sources, Networking Academy instructors, and native studying companions, Cisco will present CDTOs with entry to our places of work, labs, and briefing facilities the world over to be taught concerning the newest applied sciences, finest practices, and developments within the digitalization sector.

Collaborating with the Ministry of Digital Transformation — Serving to to Defend Ukraine from Cyberthreats

We are going to construct on our current commitments to serving to restore important telecommunications infrastructure and defending Ukraine’s communities from cyberthreats by way of Cisco safety applied sciences and our risk intelligence crew at Cisco Talos.

We’re All in This Collectively

Cisco’s CDA dedication is a testomony to the facility of working collectively, beginning with Cisco’s crew on the bottom in Ukraine, who, regardless of terribly tough circumstances, proceed to assist Ukrainian clients and dwell as much as their mission of constructing Ukraine “engaging, snug, and secure.”

Rebuilding Ukraine’s digital infrastructure and workforce requires that corporations, governments, and establishments from around the globe work collectively in new and revolutionary methods. That is what Cisco’s CDA program was made for. Collaboration throughout authorities, {industry}, and academia is in our DNA, and I’m heartened to see that our efforts are going down towards a backdrop of monumental worldwide assist.

The struggle in Ukraine will not be over, and the highway to restoration is tough. However Cisco, together with greater than 400 corporations from 38 nations who signed the Ukraine Enterprise Compact, is in it for the lengthy haul. Wıth hope and dedication, we stay up for rebuilding a stronger, extra related, safer Ukraine. Collectively.

“Cooperation with Cisco opens up new alternatives . You will need to take note of the event of human capital as nations compete for skills and specialists. The memorandum with Cisco is an funding in our future and a sign to the entire world to work with Ukraine. Collectively, we’ll implement technological instruments and revolutionary options in academic tasks, share experiences within the discipline of digitalization, and use the content material and finest practices of one of many high corporations globally.”

—Михайло Федоров/Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister for Innovation, Training, Science and Know-how Improvement

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