Google trains Central Asian youth with state-of-art IT tools
Central Asia got an unique opportunity to get themselves acquainted with state of art IT training. More than 1,000 young people from Central Asian countries completed the Google Cloud and Machine Learning training program in Almaty recently.
As a result, 20 students were offered an internship at the Kazakh-British Technical University (KBTU), according to the press service of Google Developer Groups (GDG) Cloud Almaty.
GDG Cloud Almaty is an independent group of software developers and a startup community supported by Google. Young IT specialists will have the opportunity to practice laboratory work and cases simulating real tasks of specialists in global technology corporations. Indian IT firms can also explore such training sessions in Central Asia.
Askar Aituov, the developer relations coordinator for Google Developers and Google for Startups in Central Asia and Mongolia, told Kazakhstan's leading paper The Astana Times that three specialists have already embarked on their internships at the KBTU data science lab under the guidance of Professor Iskander Akhmetov
The Google Cloud and Machine Learning training program aims to provide the participants with internship opportunities at IT companies in Central Asia. After each educational quest or laboratory work, the program issues a badge confirming the skills. It is necessary to collect five badges to obtain a final certificate.
The course is available for developers from Afghanistan, the Kyrgyz
