With the world facing a shortage of technology professionals, global tech conglomerate Cisco has committed to equip 6.7 million Asia-Pacific students with digital and cybersecurity skills over the next 10 years. | philbizwatcher /PDI
The briefing was held at RMIT University, one of Cisco’s partner-universities, where new technologies to improve healthcare are being developed.
“Our purpose is powering an inclusive future for all, and how we do that manifests itself in different ways around the world. But everywhere where we operate, we try to have country impact strategies that are aligned [with] the national agenda and allow us to be partners with the governments,” said Dominic Scott, Cisco vice president for Asia-Pacific government affairs.
Cisco Networking Academy leverages the firm’s industry expertise to deliver information and communications technology, cloud-based curriculum alongside tools focused on technologies shaping the future such as security, networking, collaboration and internet of things . Courses are designed with a learning science foundation, integrated with gamification, assessments and problem-solving to support learner success.
Vishaal Kishore, professor of innovation and public policy at RMIT University and a former Australian deputy health secretary, said the lab was fast becoming the place where Australian and healthcare systems across the region “come to be provoked to think about their hardest problems at the interface of the human and the technological and at the borderline of today and tomorrow.
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