{"id":61130,"date":"2017-10-21T17:52:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T21:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=61130"},"modified":"2017-10-21T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T21:53:00","slug":"google-unveils-job-training-initiative-with-1-billion-pledge-wakabayashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/10\/21\/google-unveils-job-training-initiative-with-1-billion-pledge-wakabayashi\/","title":{"rendered":"Google unveils job training initiative with $1 billion pledge [Wakabayashi]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google unveils job training initiative with $1 billion pledge\u00a0<\/strong><\/a> — from\u00a0nytimes.com by\u00a0Daisuke Wakabayashi<\/p>\n

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SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Google unveiled an initiative on Thursday to help train Americans for jobs in technology and committed to donating $1 billion over the next five years to nonprofits in education and professional training.<\/p>\n

The new program, Grow With Google, will create an online destination for job seekers to get training and professional certificates and for businesses to improve their web services. The company\u2019s goal, executives said, is to allow anyone with an internet connection to become proficient with technology and prepare for a job in areas like information technology support and app development.<\/p>\n

Google detailed its job training program as Silicon Valley faces increasing criticism over what some say is an unchecked influence over business and society. Google is also among a number of companies facing scrutiny over the role their internet services played in Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n

Sundar Pichai, Google\u2019s chief executive, unveiled the initiative<\/a> during a speech on Thursday in the company\u2019s Pittsburgh office, far from the search giant\u2019s Silicon Valley headquarters. He noted the city\u2019s transformation from an industrial manufacturing center for steel to a hub of robotics and artificial intelligence engineering.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand there\u2019s uncertainty and even concern about the pace of technological change, but we know that technology will be an engine of America\u2019s growth for years to come,\u201d Mr. Pichai said. \u201cThe nature of work is fundamentally changing, and that is shifting the link between education, training and opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Google unveils job training initiative with $1 billion pledge\u00a0 — from\u00a0nytimes.com by\u00a0Daisuke Wakabayashi Excerpt: SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Google unveiled an initiative on Thursday to help train Americans for jobs in technology and committed to donating $1 billion over the next five years to nonprofits in education and professional training. The new program, Grow With Google, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,174,112,343,63,44,269,480,310,118,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-career-development","category-corporate-business-world","category-education","category-google","category-pace-of-change","category-professional-development","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-training-corporate-universities","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61133,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61130\/revisions\/61133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}