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IBM Skills Initiative Programs for ACE Project
IBM–WB pilot phase for ACE Faculty training on New Technologies
IBM announces the training
sessions to the ACEs (Done)
ACEs nominates faculty who will
attend the training, and ready to teach students
once certified (Done)
Eligible Faculties who attended the minimum required
training session, will have to pass a
certification exam (Done)
Certified Faculties needs to train and
certify their students in their respective universities (not
implemented yet)
Assessment phase
(not done yet)
Pilot period: Objectives Training Track Number of Faculties
Number of ACEs
April to July 2020 Train the faculties Artificial Intelligence, Cloud and Internet of Things
100 + 8+
AAU and ACEs IBM and ACEs IBM, AAU and ACEs
Faculty training Student Training
IBM, WB, AAU and ACEIBM , WB and AAU
Faculty Training Report for West Africa
Cloud Application Developer
Number of faculties Senegal Burkina fasso Benin Niger
ivory coast
Number of faculty nominated 23 2 1 9 4 7
Number of faculty that participated 15 2 3 3 7
Faculties who attended the Final exam 12 2 2 1 7
Faculties who did succeed the Mastery award Exam 12 2 2 1 7
AI Analyst
Number of faculties Senegal Burkina fasso Benin Gunea
Number of faculty nominated 27 12 2 3 10
Number of faculty that participated 7 7
Faculties who attended the Final exam 4 4
Faculties who did succeed the Mastery award Exam 4 4
Total
Attended Number of faculty nominated 50
Number of faculty that participated 22
Number of faculty certified 16
- *ACE participation in IBM Trainings planned since April 2020 (AI, Cloud and IoT)
French speaking countries English speaking countries
Cloud Application Developer
Number of faculties Nigeria Ghana
Number of faculty nominated 32 26 6
Number of faculty that participated 26 20 6Faculties who did succeed the Mastery award Exam 13 11 2
AI Analyst
Number of faculties Nigeria Ghana
Number of faculty nominated 25 23 2
Number of faculty that participated 19 19Faculties who did succeed the Mastery award Exam 15 15
IOT Cloud developer
Number of faculties Nigeria Ghana
Number of faculty nominated 39 34 5
Number of faculty that participated 31 26 5Faculties who did succeed the Mastery award Exam 6 5 1
Total
Attended Number of faculty nominated 64
Number of faculty that participated 50
Number of faculty certified 21
Next steps
Faculty members are highly recommended to train their students based on IBM Skills Academy tracks that they were certified in.
IBM will support the university gathering access for students to courses, labs and Exam certification.
Next Faculty Training :
Period : November 2nd
to November 20th
Topic : Blockchain Developer
New Project: IBM RESEARCH LAB INTERNSHIPS FOR STUDENTS UNDER ACE ProgramObjective: To provide opportunities for ACE students (MSc and PhDs) to shadow IBM Research Scientists on topics that are important for Africa such as Healthcare, Water Management, Agriculture, Climate Change etc. This will also allow the students to harness their research skills and leverage technology in the advancement of their research.
Location: Nairobi (Kenya) and Johannesburg (South Africa) Duration: 6 months (Kenya) and up-to 12 months (South Africa)
Career Oriented Curriculum
Portal and hands-on lab
Academic Exams
Open Badges Recruiters tool
Job role curriculum focusing on latest open source technologies (such as Hyperledger, Apache, Node-RED, etc.) and hands-on labs on IBM tools such as Qradar, SPSS, IBM Cloud, IBM Watson, Mainframe, IoT, and others.
Portal with LMS functionality that includes all the learning assets. Educational cloud to host hands-on lab. The Educational cloud can be either installed public (IBM Cloud), or Private (Data center, NREN, and IBM Client center). Provides flexibility with various internet connections.
Skills Academy provides two exams: a practice test to help students prepare for the final exam. Then, the final exam which is proctored by instructors, where students can prove their expertise on subjects learned.
Students receive an Open Badge that is accredited by Credley’sAcclaim. Badge contains all the metadata to show skills learned. Students can share badges on Social Media such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook to increase employability.
Expose certified students, who obtained a badge, to the employers such as IBM, Business Partners, and IBM customers. This tool helps grow the IBM ecosystem for the skills on emerging technologies. This tool is GDPR compliant.
A career oriented classroom based training for Academia, that focuses on IBM technologies and tools in Cloud, Analytics, Cybersecurity, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, IoT, Mainframe, etc. The program helps students prepare for the job market, through IBM Digital Badges and Recruiters’ tool.
IBM Skills Academy
Train-The-Faculty (T3) Model
To achieve employment we focus on top careers
Business Intelligence
Analyst
Predictive Analytics
Modeler
Artificial Intelligence
Analyst
BigData
Engineer
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Careers
BlockchainDeveloper
Security Intelligence
Engineer
Cloud Application
Developer
IoT Cloud
Developer
IBM Mainframe Foundations