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Re:My Improbable Graduation: From a Tiny Village in Ghana to... by throwthisawayt on Saturday June 03, 2017 @04:40PM (#14478372)
My anecodatal experience is they don't because I had friends in South Africa, DRC, and Nigeria who came from more privileged middle class backgrounds and still struggled due to a lack of education. They were never recruited by tech firms due to the issues the author faced. One asked me to refer them into some of the firms here but I was unable to get them in.

I don't know if it would have been cheaper to recruit them but I do know they had no chance here in America. They have hustled their way to a living but have worked 10x harder than me because I have an American citizenship and degree.

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Re:My Improbable Graduation: From a Tiny Village in Ghana to... by JPLeRouzic on Sunday June 04, 2017 @03:08AM (#14480237)
Sometimes I wonder if it would be possible to graft a form of certification by huge companies on a MOOC curriculum for countries like CAR/CDR/etc. After all big companies do something close in IT (CISCO/Microsoft certifications). Indeed there are some eDx professional certificates but they that are really costly as they are aimed at a western audience.

What about a similar certificate at $100 (one month revenue in Kivu) but in Kinyarwanda (for targeting the right students)?

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