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Specialists in companies technology point out that there is a high demand for technological developers in the country.
Companies such as Google, Meta, Crehana and Revelo have invested in the certification course for technological developers.
Mexicans and technology they get along quite well, although they rarely talk about it. Mexico has long been considered a country with medium potential in terms of technological development. This is because for many it does not have the digital infrastructure, nor the necessary workforce.
Nevertheless, different analysts and several brands of technological development have begun to understand the potential of Mexico in this section.
Brands bet on the training of Mexicans in technology
In an exclusive interview for Merca2.0, Jorge Tellez, Chief Community Officer of Revelocommented on the potential for technological development existing in the Mexican territory, due to the fact that the demand in the United States has begun to exceed the number of applicants, and since this is a time when the distinctions between technological companies and normal companies no longer exist. , the Mexican and Latin American markets are beginning to be the solution to this.
“Given that programming is an area of great demand, the salary growth of developers represents a unique social mobility opportunity for millions of people in Mexico and LATAM. Therefore, it is important that governments relax their regulations and allow accelerated programming education programs, also called coding bootcamps, to be able to issue degrees and professional licenses endorsed by governments”, he commented then.
But it has not been only Revelo who has noticed this growth niche. Companies like Google constantly offer scholarships through their collaboration with Inroads of Mexico, AC The delivery was recently offered to 25,000 people, without the need to have previous studies, with the intention of promoting study and generating work with Mexican labor. Something that supports this initiative are the statistics recorded in the ENOE from INEGIwhich highlights that until January 2022 in Mexico there were about 7.9 million economically inactive people.
In the same way, Meta, a leading company in social media, at a press conference in the Gustavo A. Madero mayor’s office, stated that he would invest in the Code Schools, the educational program organized by the Government of Mexico City. This program has the objective of teaching people aspects of programming and managing databases; Likewise, it seeks to help students develop key skills for their professional development. These courses have already had a strong acceptance with a first generation of 2,789 people with knowledge and solid programming foundations in Java or Python..
A study by the World Economic Forum notes that in Mexico there is a high demand for professionals specialized in the development of artificial intelligence, and interested in digital machine learning and data analysis. In the same way, he shares that based on this type of initiative, the country could be on a direct path to understanding the development of future technologies such as digital spaces and the extensive ecosystems of the metaverse.
In the same way, sectors such as the e-learning or digital learning They have managed to gain important ground in the Mexican and Latin American territory. Coursera, Crehana, Platzi and Domestikaamong many others, are some of the platforms that are in a competitive boom through this new interest.
In an exclusive interview with Marc André Ourgant, Communication and Public Relations Senior Manager at Crehana, He pointed out for Merca2.0 that there has been an increasingly high interest by Latin American users in technological development and in the interest of online courses.
The analysis made by these brands yields potentially equal results: the Mexican and Latin American markets have a promising future and, for some reason, the investments are becoming obvious.
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