In a ceremony led by Governor Maximiliano Pullaro, the Government of Santa Fe and the firm Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced this Friday an alliance to implement in the province the programme "AWS Trains Argentina: Developing Argentinian talent and driving the digital transformation of companies through knowledge and the cloud" where all Santa Fe residents will be able to access free of charge from http://http://www.santafe.gob.ar/impulsa.
The activity took place in the coworking room "La maquinita" in Rosario, where the president was accompanied by the vice-governor Gisela Scaglia; the Minister of Labour, Rolad Báscolo; the Secretary of Cooperation, Cristian Cunha; the Secretary of Coordination of Digital Transformation, Mauricio Basso; the Secretary of Education, Carolina Piedrabuena; the Secretary of Employment, Hernán Franco; the AWS Public Sector Leader for the Southern Cone, Lorena Zicker; the AWS Massive Training Leader for Latin America, Carolina Piña; councillors; provincial and municipal authorities.
The initiative is part of the Impulsa provincial programme, led by the Productive Cabinet of Santa Fe. This plan focuses on the synergy between the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Productive Development and the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security, to coordinate job training and vocational training for people.
AWS Trains Argentina seeks to train more than 100,000 people across the country for free by the end of 2025, with the aim of developing talent and driving digital transformation through knowledge in businesses and public sector organisations.
Santa Fe, a pioneer in the new world of work
In this context, Governor Pullaro pointed out: "The Government of Santa Fe has understood that we must work strongly together with the private sector to generate the necessary tools to be able to solve the fundamental problems that exist in Argentina. That is why we are carrying out many programmes such as Impulsa, which has already provided almost 2,000 courses throughout the province. At the same time, he encouraged us to "adapt to the world of work that is going to come and in this sense we are working on the digitalization of the government and thinking about public policies for the new reality that is going to come in Argentina and the world" and stressed: "We feel that from this place we will also generate an immense opportunity for Santa Fe to be a pioneer, but fundamentally, the engine that drives Argentina to transform itself and move forward".
For Scaglia, the initiative "is to change the focus of training and the way in which we train people who have to enter the world of work, which is changing and requires new skills and human resources". Therefore, "we are going to work with our new generations because the change is to understand that we have children who need to be adapted and flexible to a world of work that requires skills and therefore we have to make the entire state available for this change".
Minister Báscolo then acknowledged that "as a province we have to be prepared with our workforce to meet the new demand for employability. That is why this agreement is aimed at SMEs and entrepreneurs who may not have the resources that large companies have to adapt to new technologies", and stressed that the Impulsa programme "is worked on with three ministries: Education, Productive Development and Labour, and is one of the strongest bets of the Government of the Province".
New technologies for new jobs
AWS Public Sector Leader for the Southern Cone, Lorena Zicker, acknowledged that "we are proud to be part of Argentina's digital transformation and the training of the Argentinean professionals of the future", while highlighting: "We know that one of the main economic impacts of cloud adoption in Argentina will be the generation of 1.2 million new jobs by 2038, according to the FTI study".
Finally, AWS Massive Training Leader for Latin America, Carolina Piña, said that "according to data from the World Economic Forum, by 2027, 22% of the jobs that will be required in Argentina do not yet exist. This is why we must start today to develop the talents and skills of tomorrow".
