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Tech Without Frontiers: Empowering displaced talent with skills, opportunities, and choice...
Tech Without Frontiers: Empowering displaced talent with skills, opportunities, and choice...
Over the last decade, the number of international migrants has grown consistently, from 221 million people in 2010 to 281 million in 2020. This year alone, millions have moved across borders due economic hardship, conflict, and instability.
Climate change poses an additional challenge: with 200 million projected climate refugees by 2050, the World Economic Forum is now calling for stronger action by governments, policy makers, and industry leaders to support the international flow of people.
But migration brings great opportunities, too: it mobilises knowledge, skills, and cultural perspectives that have considerable benefits for economies.
At Sparta Global, we are taking action to support displaced talent.
Our Tech Without Frontiers internship programme — in partnership with Migrant Leaders and Migrant Help — offers free technical and business upskilling, advice, and mentoring to migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. In turn, the participants in the programme bring something very special: their diverse journeys, determination, drive, and potential.
We believe that businesses play an important role in advancing civic integration. By taking collective action, we can engage and develop incoming talent, increase workforce diversity, and drastically reduce existing gaps in social mobility.
Talent does not have frontiers, and neither does tech: if we empower diverse minds with digital literacy, we will reap the benefits of a stronger, more resilient tech workforce in the years to come.
Natasha Fasanotti has always had an interest in technology, pursuing a degree in Computer Science to turn her passion into a career. But when it came to leaving university and picking a path - the options were overwhelming, unclear, and Natasha wanted to find an opportunity that could help her specialise in something that utilised her skills through and through. Joining Sparta Global in February this year, Natasha upskilled in test automation and is now an integral part of a mult-Spartan project team operating in the public sector.
When Ekaterina (Kat) McNeill began her Psychology studies at University, she wouldn’t have predicted a future working in Data and a successful career kickstart working in the public sector – but that’s exactly what Kat has achieved. In fact, her line manager told us how Kat got to grips with complex code with little to no documentation, worked out how to access data that was previously thought inaccessible, and modelled it through a workflow. Her skills have already made an impact on site and we can’t wait to see what Kat does next…
After initially forging a career in Mechanical Engineering, Bradley Woods found himself searching for an opportunity to change careers and pursue an interest in technology. With a firm determination to find training opportunities in DevOps, Bradley joined the Sparta Academy in early 2023 and quickly secured his first role working in the public sector. Nominated for Spartan of the Month for his “dedication and hard work” that have been “instrumental in the smooth execution of high-profile project”, we spoke to Bradley about his time in tech.