Rackspace : Looking to fill your IT skills gap ?
Rackspace : Looking to fill your IT skills gap ?
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53 Lee James , EMEA CTO at multinational tech company Rackspace , is of the opinion that the tech industry itself has a responsibility to demonstrate the connection between technological work such as coding and the real-world output by reaching out to the community . “ We need to do more of that . It can ’ t be a token gesture and I don ’ t think it is . It should be part of the fabric in terms of what you do and what you feed back . That ’ s where absolutely tech companies need to drive and take that lead . We ’ ve done work in local schools and colleges to go in and do coding for the day – to help them understand what coding can achieve . What is it ? What does it deliver ? Why is it important ? Why is it exciting ?”
For Rackspace , demonstrating that importance has taken the form of a number of different partnerships . “ We partnered with the British Heart Foundation , VMware and Amazon and we went into a college to teach students . We helped them to create some Amazon Alexa skills – simple
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