Partner: Universities of Technology in Havana and Santa Clara
For small and medium-sized IT companies with products requiring explanation and complex projects, entry into international markets is only possible when they have partner companies with the relevant market expertise and regional wage levels.
Considering these aspects, a qualification programme was undertaken as a public-private partnership project for Cuban software developers. Furthermore, the Cuban e-learning platform "AprenDist" based on Delphi was migrated to the open-EIS technology and the Learning Management System comm.lms.
Considering these aspects, a qualification programme was undertaken as a public-private partnership project for Cuban software developers. Furthermore, the Cuban e-learning platform "AprenDist" based on Delphi was migrated to the open-EIS technology and the Learning Management System comm.lms.
Challenge
In Cuba, there is a great demand on well-trained Java programmers, as so far only proprietary programming languages have been used. This is a good starting point to bring the economic interests of a company together with the development policy interests of the country. In order to ensure the greatest possible developmental benefit for Cuba and a permanent availability of human resources for the implementation of open-EIS projects, the PPP project was carried out by community4you together with the Cuban universities TU Havana and TU Santa Clara.
Solution
The participants' training organized in the form of a concrete project. The existing Cuban e-learning platform "AprenDist", a Delphi based in-house development, was migrated to the open-EIS platform and thus to the most modern Java technology together with open-EIS experienced developers over several months of on-site working. The result is a web-based virtual university in which students can not only retrieve learning content, but also work on projects together, research in virtual or real libraries and exchange information on relevant topics with professors as well as with each other.
The project was funded by sequa gGmbH as part of the PPP programme of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).