Personalities from the business and social world add their support to code.org, the movement that promotes the learning of programming in schools
The Code.org movement, which promotes programming learning at an early age and integrated into the school curriculum, continues to gain support. In this new stage, the project has been promoted by leaders from the business world such as Luis Enríquez, CEO of Vocento. “It is difficult to find the right programming profiles because it is a highly demanded market,” reflected the CEO of the communication group, who relates this circumstance to the difficulty companies have in retaining talent “because the opportunities they have (the programmers) are infinite. A project that interests them and investment in the means required to carry it out are, according to Enríquez, key so that they do not lose interest and leave the company.
His vision of the opportunities that open up for those who handle what will be ‘the language of the future’ from childhood joins that of other names such as Francisco Riberas, executive president of Gestamp; Cesar Cernuda, president of NetAPP; Beatriz González, founder of Seaya Ventures, José Damián Bogas, CEO of Endesa and the journalist Ana Pastor (Newtral).
All are collected in a video, the second in a series that began last January and aims to mobilize families, teachers and politicians to take action. “We understand the language of programming, as a tool that will help them solve the future challenges that we will have to face, such as climate change, diseases, cleaning the ocean, etc.”, they explain from the organization
In line with Luis Enríquez’s reflection, César Cernuda, from NerAPP, pronounces: «The greatest demand for talent that exists in all companies, not only in technology companies, is around data scientists, developers, of people with technical knowledge because more and more, all companies are becoming technology and software companies».
Regarding the employment opportunity, Beatriz González, from Seaya Ventures, leaves no room for doubt with the data: «In all the investments we have made in the last 8 years, more than 7,000 direct jobs, more than 50% are in the environment of programming and the demand is enormous».
Before reaching the stage of employability, Code.org is committed to bringing this language of a digitized future from childhood, and at school. For this they have created a platform with free access content and translated into more than 60 languages.
This movement arose eight years ago when Ali and Hadi Partovy, entrepreneurs and philanthropists, realized that the American and global education system was not training children in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) skills. Currently, more than 55 million students and 2 million teachers have accounts on the Code.org platform, and more than 1.1 billion Hour of Code workshop hours have been taught worldwide.