Google To Train 2 Million Indian Android Developers (thestack.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Stack: Google has announced its new "Android Fundamentals" training program, which aims to train and certify up to two million Android developers in India. The course, soon to be available online and at schools country-wide, is focused on training, testing, and certifying Android developers to prepare students for careers using Android technology. Google is currently working to update the skills of its existing trainers to prepare them to teach the Fundamentals course, as well as updating course materials to provide students a solid foundation in Android development. The new program works with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Skill India' initiative, launched in 2015 with the intent of training 400 million Indian citizens with new vocational skills by 2022. Caesar Sengupta, VP Product Management for Google, said that while India is forecasted to have the largest developer population in the world by 2018, with almost four million developers, only a quarter of them are currently building for mobile.

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Re:Is this available to the US also?

[angel'o'sphere]

Wake up! ... I think they started the whole "designed in America" ...

The economy, world wide, is transforming into a "knowledge" economy since decades.

Smart workers are "knowledge workers". Obviously manual labour gets outsourced. Was always that way, or where does your oil, coal, minerals, even food come from?

Colonialism and Imperialism was nothing other than somehow getting cheap wares from "cheap countries".

I for my part have no problem teaching dozens of Indians how to "code". To get my experience they have to work in the job as long as I did ... so probably 35 years to go for everyone I teach. And as long as they produce Apps, Applications that are useful for me, what is the damn problem?

Obviously none of you are producing useful Apps/Applications for me. Hm ... or are you?

Where does this Angst come from?

India is a great back packer tourist area. They are for some reason a completely underdeveloped country regarding tourism (sure some big travel agencies organize you round trips from hotel to hotel to sight seeing spots) ... why don't you try a win win? Go there, live cheap, work via internet, help them with education, earn some money meanwhile, buy some property, settle down.

Oh, in your perception a third world country is stealing your jobs ...

You know, Europe has an "immigration problem" with millions of refugees coming from the "middle east", especially german neo Nazis, unemployed (half their fault), no education (their fault) ...

There is an advertizement, on TV sometimes, by EU human right groups:

-- If you think --
A refugee from a third world country:
Who does not speak your language
Who has no money
Who has no friends here
Who has no family here
Who has no right to have a job here ...
is stealing your job
is stealing your wife
is stealing your girl friend ...
then you probably have to accept that you are "just shit"?

Yeah, that was a bit off topic. Concerns Europe as well as the USA.

On the other hand, even more off topic:
You can't adapt to slightly change in global economy? Designing HW in the USA, manufacturing it in China? buying german cars? However /. is full with comments, mainly from americans when we talk about global warming: mankind will adapt!!

As far as I can tell: to an economical change everyone can adapt. Just join the "winning side". To environmental changes it is much much more difficult.

BTW: I really wonder how spotify and pandora make money when you can listen to www.protonradio.com/ all day and night long.