Corporate Vice President and Global Leader of Microsoft Philanthropies meets with Ministries of Labor and Employment and Communications to strengthen partnership and analyze possibilities to bring training and access to new technologies
This Wednesday (23), Kate Behncken, Corporate Vice President and Global Leader at Microsoft Philanthropies, the Minister of Labor and Employment, Luiz Marinho, and Juscelino Filho, Minister of Communications in the current government. The meeting celebrated the mark of around 1 million registrations on the Escola do Trabalhador 4.0 platform, an initiative of the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MTE), in partnership with Microsoft, which aims to offer training in digital skills to improve the employability of Brazilians in all states of the country.
On the occasion, Microsoft and government representatives discussed opportunities to expand and improve partnerships with ministries and use the potential of technology to train the population for the current world of work, based on digital skills. “Having the digital skills to leverage new and existing technologies such as generative AI is increasingly becoming an imperative for workers across a range of industries. Everyone needs the opportunity to learn these skills so they can secure new jobs and be more productive in existing ones. The private sector, government and non-profit organizations need to work together to ensure that technology and training are available to everyone, especially in a country that faces a scenario of social inequality like Brazil. Our role is to work together to build an egalitarian reality with opportunities for all” explains Kate.
From the perspective of the public sector, the partnership with private institutions, such as Microsoft, represents a way of uniting efforts and resources so that the population is prepared for new employability opportunities. According to Luiz Marinho, the way to reduce the unemployment rate in the country is also to open up the range of opportunities for the social and professional qualification of male and female workers. For this, it is necessary to invest in digital literacy and in mastering digital tools and solutions through projects accessible to the population.
Juscelino Filho, on the other hand, states that “a complement for these trainings to reach the population is to provide access to the digital environment for those who do not have it or who have difficulty staying connected. At this meeting, we were able to discuss Microsoft's global perspectives to address these issues. In this sense, the Ministry's programs such as Internet Brazil, which aims to bring the Internet to up to 700,000 young people, and the connectivity initiatives of Public Schools, have a lot to add”
“Microsoft is committed to the social, economic and sustainable development of the country and we look forward to exploring ways to expand our collaboration”, concludes Kate. The courses at Escola do Trabalhador 4.0 are available to Brazilians across the country and continue to be expanded. The remote teaching platform has 25 knowledge trails in various areas such as digital literacy, productivity, data analysis, artificial intelligence, how to prepare a curriculum, among others. All courses include certification after taking a test. The objective of the program is to train the workforce and promote qualification of young people and adults with a focus on increasing employability. The target audience is workers, over 18 years old, who are looking for a job and want to reinvent themselves and prepare for the new demands of the world of work, especially with a focus on the digital environment.
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