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Google recently held a virtual graduation event celebrating the first
cohort of graduates from its inaugural Google Cloud student developer
program in Pakistan.
Called
CloudSeekho, the initiative by Google is aimed at helping students
learn cloud skills at home at their own pace and prepare themselves with
job-ready skills.
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The initiative consists of self-study online labs provided by Google’s
QwikLabs platform for student developers in Pakistan where they are able
to learn cloud skills and technologies on
Google Cloud
Platform.
Launched in June, the first season of the initiative saw more than 5,000
registered student developers from across Pakistan of which 350
completed the program after a total of 22,500 Developer Hours learned.
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"These past six months have been a period of adjustment and recovery for
Pakistanis, and we at Google are glad to be able to help folks get
authoritative information around COVID-19, assist e-learning to continue
with free tools and resources, and help upskill Pakistanis through our
Grow with
Google initiative,” said Farhan Qureshi, Country Head for South
Asia, Google Asia Pacific.
"CloudSeekho is the most recent example of how leaned-in we are to help
with the country’s economic recovery and people’s skills development to
cater to rising levels of digital sophistication," he added.
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The second season of CloudSeekho is set to launch in September. For more
information regarding CloudSeekho visit
https://events.withgoogle.com/cloudseekho/.
In addition to CloudSeekho, Google is supporting students in Pakistan
through its Developer Student Clubs program through which 43 students
leads have been chosen from across 13 cities to create technology
learning clubs. University students join these clubs to build leadership
skills, connect with experts and to enhance their skills.
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