Bhaskar Ghosh, group chief executive at Accenture Technology Delivery, and his team are going back to school to teach code to underprivileged students. The $31-billion IT firm believes that with software becoming core to every industry, coding skills have become as important as reading and writing. “Digital technology is invisibly embedded into everything we do, “says Ghosh. The new initiative is part of Accenture’s Skill to Succeed programme that aims to equip 3 million people globally with the skills to get a job or build a business by 2020. Accenture will teach basic coding to 1,400 students in classes 8 to 10 across 10 schools in 6 cities by 2016-end. Over 150 volunteers from Accenture have signed up for the initiative and they will collectively dedicate over 1,200 volunteer hours. It will begin in Bengaluru and then spread to Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and NCR.
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