The proposal of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology (CUTI) to allocate US$ 4 million from the National Institute of Employment and Vocational Training (Inefop) to generate a specific training program in tasks demanded by the sector received yesterday the endorsement of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.
CUTI's board met with Minister Ernesto Murro, Undersecretary Nelson Loustaunau and the Director of Employment, Eduardo Pereira. There they explained the project that aims to train about 4,000 people who will then access internships in companies in the ICT industry.
"We see this proposal with very good eyes from the government, with the adjustments that have to be made to (implement it in) the whole country," Murro said. CUTI must present the project in two weeks to the Inefop board of directors (representatives of the government, the Pit-Cnt and the business chambers). The president of the union, Álvaro Lamé, said that "the main challenge of the sector is the lack of human resources. We need to have more trained people to keep growing. The ICT industries employ 12,000 people and "if there are more people we will take them all," he added.
CUTI is researching among the companies "what (type of skilled workers) we are going to need in five years" and then focusing the program on those learnings.
"Many people think that if you are not an engineer you cannot work (in the industry) but we need different skills. Today there is a huge offer for many people with different skills without the need to be an engineer, but we need an educational offer that is much more focused," Lamé said.
On the other hand, at the meeting progress was made in another CUTI claim: to promote a law regulating teleworking - remote or non-face-to-face employment. In this regard, Murro said that "there are different forms" of regulation and that the experiences of other countries should be observed.
Source: El País
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