{"id":3480,"date":"2013-02-01T07:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T07:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2013-02-01T07:30:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T07:30:27","slug":"kenyan-universities-work-ibm-develop-leaders-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/?p=3480","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Universities Work with IBM to Develop IT Leaders of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya &#8211; 31 Jan 2013:\u00a0<\/strong>In an effort to meet growing demand for highly skilled IT professionals, three of Kenya\u2019s leading universities are teaming with IBM (NYSE:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/\">IBM<\/a>) to create an advanced educational and training environment. These partnerships will help students develop critical Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) skills in areas such as analytics, cyber security, big data, social business and cloud.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As part of the collaboration, Riara University will have access to the latest enterprise software and systems. Faculty will have no-charge access to an extensive library of IT curricula for computer science, business and other degree programs and be able to participate in ongoing training opportunities. Students will also have access to IBM experts and real-world case studies from a range of industries.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">For more information about\u00a0IBM&#8217;s academic\u00a0&amp;\u00a0skills initiatives see:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/press\/skills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.ibm.com\/press\/skills<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Adopted from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strathmore.edu\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pressrelease\/40255.wss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IBM<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Contact(s) information <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Vera Rosauer<\/strong><br \/>\nIBM Media Relations<br \/>\n+254-737-537-030<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:VERAROS@ke.ibm.com\">VERAROS@ke.ibm.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"resource\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya &#8211; 31 Jan 2013:\u00a0In an effort to meet growing demand for highly skilled IT professionals, three of Kenya\u2019s leading universities are teaming with IBM (NYSE:\u00a0IBM) to create an advanced educational and training environment. These partnerships will help students develop critical Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) skills in areas such as analytics, cyber security, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}