Partner: Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Universidad Católica San Pablo Boliviana
In the project "ACQua - Assessment, Coaching and Qualification" the software company community4you carried out an extensive qualification program for the Bolivian IT junior staff in the field of Java programming. The project purpose was to promote the training and further education of Bolivian IT specialists in the form of blended learning courses in English. The integration platform open-EIS and the Learning Management System comm.lms served as the technical project basis. For this purpose, a service-based domain for e-Learning, e-Testing, Communication and Knowledge Pool was developed. Further focal points of implementation were an authoring system with an associated learning platform and a module for individualized assessments with flexible evaluation and testing options.
Challenge
The availability and usability of modern ICT are still severely restricted in developing countries such as Bolivia. Overcoming the "digital divide" - the digital divide between rich and poor countries - is thus the main task of international cooperation. The major obstacle is the limited availability of local IT specialists and lack of training opportunities. Large software engineering projects are often carried out with foreign software companies, which is very expensive and only allows large companies to outsource such projects. Small and medium-sized enterprises, in particular, are therefore excluded from technical innovation.
Solution
In a PPP project community4you sponsored over 24 months the training and further education of IT specialists through a comprehensive qualification programme in the field of Java programming. The programming language is worldwide on the rise and gives Bolivian IT companies and computer science faculties at universities the opportunity to develop modern software applications independently and to present their know-how to the Latin American market.
The project was carried out in cooperation with two Bolivian universities: Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) and Universidad Católica San Pablo Boliviana (UCB) as well as various companies in La Paz, Bolivia.
The project was funded by sequa gGmbH as part of the develoPPP.de programme of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The project was funded by sequa gGmbH as part of the develoPPP.de programme of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).