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Open standards initiative from IBM

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NEW DELHI: IBM has launched an academic initiative to collaborate with educational institutions and teach students open standards based skills necessary to compete and keep pace with changes in the IT space.






With the help of this initiative, IBM envisages reaching out to over 300 academic institutions in India, training over 75,000 students in IBM and open standards based technologies by the end of this year.





"There is a dearth of trained manpower in the area of open standards, so this initiative is our way of making sure that there would be enough resources when it comes to dealing with open standards based technologies and applications. With the help of this initiative, IBM will work with universities supporting open standards and seek to use open source and IBM technologies for teaching purposes — both directly and virtually via the web," informed IBM Global Services India MD Shankar Annaswamy.





As per IBM's strategy, content development will occur in close co-ordination with various engineering and technical institutes.





IBM has three key objectives with the program - training a workforce to fill new kinds of jobs, providing right skill sets to the next generation of workers and ensuring that universities have the most current, relevant curriculum.





"We will be providing more than 40 software technologies at no charge for integration into college curricula to help teach students in mastering fast growing open technologies like Linux, Java and XML. In addition to this we will also be providing our hardware products at special rates," Annaswamy added.








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