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IBM India in partnership with the Indian government is planning to design and introduce courses that will define the future of jobs.
IBM’s Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty at an event, Think Forum, said that the company in collaboration with the Ministry of Skill Development will be launching two diploma courses to make the next generation skilled enough to take up future jobs that will be dominated by augmented intelligence, cognitive intelligence, cloud computing and blockchain.
She said the courses, a two-year diploma, will be introduced in the ITIs in Bengaluru and Hyderabad to start with this year and later on would be expanded to other towns and cities.
Rometty also met Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier in the day today in this regard.
“We are certainly the world leader in Artificial Intelligence but I believe Augmented Intelligence is the future,” Rometty said, adding that 100 per cent of the current jobs will change and hence there is an immediate need of re-skilling required with public-private partnerships.
New-age technologies
She further added that all the companies need to focus on the new-age technologies since every company in the world is eventually going to be a technology company.
“We all have a role to play in re-skilling this world. The companies are at an inflection point,” she said, adding that the companies really need to adopt AI and blockchain in a big way.
On data security, which is the biggest concern for the Indian government at present, Rometty said that no government should or is required to access data inappropriately and that no one company should own all of the data.
Last year, Rometty had said that IBM will pick 50 universities in India in a bid to ensure that they impart curriculum suited to the changing needs of the technology industry. The US tech major is also ramping up research & development in India to customise and localise its flagship cognitive technology platform Watson.
The IBM chief had also said that IBM was also looking at how to adapt its Pathways to Technology (Ptech — a programme launched in the US) to India.
“This was developed for US schools so we are looking at how we can bring it to India. There are six other countries adopting this approach. You tell a school this is what the industry is looking for, so teach that curriculum,” Rometty had said during her India visit in February last year.
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