Atos becomes 01Talent’s technology partner in Africa to identify, train and connect the digital talent of tomorrow to jobs

Praia (Cape Verde) and Paris (France) – October six, 2021

Atos and 01Talent announce the launch of a strategic partnership to aid the acceleration of the digital transformation in Africa, by enabling the dissemination of a significant-high-quality, innovative and inclusive coaching application on the continent.

01Talent’s ambition is to establish, train and link a single million significant-degree builders to the expert environment by 2035. By this partnership, 01Talent will be in a position to attract on Atos’ technological assets to aid the numerous tasks underway.

In buy to complete the pan-African marketing campaign intended to establish potential digital expertise, 01Talent, in partnership with the Didier Drogba Basis and UCLG Africa (United Cities and Nearby Governments Africa), will rely on a technological system formulated by Atos to host cognitive assessments.

These on line assessments will be mini-games accessible to all, demanding no prior coding encounter. They will deliver a measure of the cognitive competencies, creativeness and commitment of candidates, and to establish significant-possible profiles who could not have been spotted by standard schooling programs.

The students of the potential “Zone01”, selected this way by the assessments, will be properly trained for 2 many years to become significant-degree inventive “Complete Stack” builders, with a position at stake.

Zone01 Cabo-Verde, will be the initial “Zone01” collective intelligence zone on the African continent, and is scheduled to open up at Praia Techno Park in Cape Verde, early 2022. two hundred young expertise from Cape Verde and from 26 other African partner countries will be welcomed in this “Zone01”and will be provided with laptops by Atos. This initial “Zone01” will be the foundation for the deployment of the schooling application which aims to create more than two hundred “Zone01” on the African continent.

Atos will also mobilize its workers all-around the environment by way of a mentoring application to share know-how and give personalized advice to the students. This will give Atos an possibility to create ties with Zone01 expertise, and to employ numerous students in the course of and just after their coaching.

It has also been agreed that Atos will produce inside the educational system, a curriculum to improve and produce the competencies of its workers, in immersion with the students of the potential “Zone01”.

“With this partnership, we reaffirm Atos’ ambition to aid the dynamics of the economic, social and environmental transformation of the African continent by way of coaching in digital competencies. 01Talent’s notably inclusive and innovative educational give is a concrete expression of this ambition, and we are proud to be in a position to aid its deployment. This is an crucial phase in the growth of a digital sector in Africa” commented Nourdine Bihmane, EVP and Director of Developing Marketplaces at Atos.

“We are extremely delighted to give lifetime to a partnership that will let us to aid and combine the most promising digital skills into Atos’ groups. Atos and 01Talent share the same values and the same goal: to produce human capital by way of an inclusive and sustainable approach in buy to facilitate the digital and social transition of the African continent,” adds David Sultan, Vice President of 01Talent in demand of World Operations.

“Atos in Africa is absolutely mobilized to make sure the accomplishment of the university student collection marketing campaign and to carry on this collaboration above the lengthy phrase. At a time when the continent is heading digital, attracting expertise is becoming a significant strategic emphasis for our growth,” adds Alpha Barry, Director of Atos in Africa.

After Cape Verde, Atos and 01Talent will produce their partnership with the opening of new “Zone01” on the African continent, in individual in Senegal.

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About Atos

Atos is a world-wide leader in digital transformation with one hundred and five,000 workers and annual profits of above € 11 billion. European variety a single in cybersecurity, cloud and significant functionality computing, the Group presents tailored stop-to-stop options for all industries in seventy one countries. A pioneer in decarbonization companies and goods, Atos is dedicated to a protected and decarbonized digital for its clientele. Atos operates beneath the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the Subsequent twenty Paris stock index.

The function of Atos is to assistance style the potential of the info house. Its know-how and companies aid the growth of knowledge, schooling and analysis in a multicultural approach and add to the growth of scientific and technological excellence. Across the environment, the Group permits its shoppers and workers, and users of societies at significant to are living, work and produce sustainably, in a risk-free and protected info house. www.atos.internet

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About 01Talent

01Talent is each a Talent factory and a Talent agency which aims to establish, produce and link to the expert environment one million significant-degree builders in the environment by 2035 by way of the mix of a established pedagogical product and a sustainable and exponential business enterprise product.

01Talent deploys globally some Centers of Collective Intelligence named Zone01 which include teacherless coding faculties, IT Talent Agencies and Electronic Reskilling companies.

Its curriculum is dependent on 01Edu, the top improve of the “peer-to-peer” (teacherless) and gamified pedagogical approach formulated by Nicolas Sadirac and his group, a learning system intended to handle the rising world-wide shortage of IT builders.

This pedagogical product which develops entrepreneurial spirit, creativeness and collective intelligence has by now been deployed by our co-founder Nicolas Sadirac and his Alumni in more than 40 countries all-around the environment, coaching more than one hundred,000 digital Skills in the previous 10 many years.https://01-edu.org

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Valerie Gagliano | [email protected] | +33 six 33 seventy three 24 89 | @valeriegagliano

Photograph: remaining to appropriate: David Sultan, World COO, 01Talent Nourdine Bihmane, EVP and Director of Developing Marketplaces, Atos Deror Su
ltan, Co-founder & CEO, 01Talent.