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| Promise Nkosi |
South Africa: Tapping technology to help people all over the world
In the small town of Belfast in northeast South Africa, Promise Nkosi loved to study science, math, and technology. She was accepted to CIDA City Campus, a nonprofit institution of higher education in Johannesburg. Promise found her way to the Global Technology Acceleration (GTAP) program, an intensive five-month program that prepares people age 18 to 24 with an aptitude for technology to become network consulting engineers, project managers, customer support engineers, system engineers, and account managers.
Promise is the first born of five and the only girl. She is the first in her family to go to university and find a job. She encourages her siblings to stay in school and consider careers in technology. “I will take them around to see the places where technology is used and where technology comes from. If they understand that, they will feel that they can help other people. Because with technology you are not just helping yourself, you are also helping people all over the world.”
From 2008 to 2012, GTAP recruited 239 candidates who achieved a total of 653 Cisco Technical Certifications; 198 have Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) written certifications, on their way to full certification.
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