Facebook to unlock digital training hubs in Europe

As it stated in "People are worried which the digital revolution is leaving people behind and we want to make sure which we're investing in digital skills to get people the skills they want to fully participate in the digital economy," Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, told Reuters. The society hubs going to offer training in digital skills, media literacy and on-line security to groups with limited access to technology, involving old people, the young and refugees. Through its society Boost European program, Facebook going to work with small businesses and start-ups to help them grow and hire. It told it would conduct in-person training for 100,000 small- and medium-sized businesses with 2020 and on-line training for 250,000 businesses. The European Union's executive has stressed the want to boost Europeans' digital skills to help bring drop unemployment and able Europe to innovate its own digital giant.

Facebook expands 'Community Boost' digital skills training programme to Europe

Facebook has reported it's expanding a toll free training programme that teaches Internet-skills, media literacy and on-line security to Europe. Facebook operates this digital skills training programme under the brand name "Community Boost". To deliver the program, Facebook is partnering with digital upskilling company Freeformers that going to supply the training across the 6 European countries. In the UK Facebook specifies that the programme going to reach 12,500 people out of in-person training and 37,500 online. Our Boost Your Business programme has trained hundreds of thousands of small businesses globally, and further than one mn small businesses have used Facebook's toll free on-line learning hub, Blueprint.

Facebook to offer digital training to one mn Europeans

as informed in Dominic Lipinski / PA Images / GettyFacebook is opening 3 centers across Europe to train further than one mn people in digital skills over the following 2 years, the firm told Monday. The sites going to be based in Spain, Italy and Poland and going to focus on training in media literacy and on-line security for underrepresented groups, Facebook told in a blog post. The social network too reported ten mn euros ($13.5 million, £9.7 million, AU$16.8 million) of investments in France out of its AI study website there. The investments come amid Facebook's crises in suppressing fake break news and hate speech on its platform. They're too an international expansion of the "Community Boost" programme which Facebook released in the US in November.

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