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A Global Village
Vision, objectives and goals:
The project was designed to facilitate or achieve the following:
- Give the successful talented students the opportunity of the part time job, paying high eNough to facilitate their
studies and even create some additional income for their families;
- Give them full time Internet access and access to the various most modern computer equipment for doing their
homework as well as professional studies;
- Give them real hands-on programming experience in various fields of software development, corresponding to the
main field of their studies as well;
- Give them the good professional guidance of more experienced colleagues in a "real project" environment;
- Give an additional incentive for them to study languages, because the company caters mostly to the customers
abroad
- Offer the best of the trainees an opportunity to see the world, working with the on-site company teams all over the
world;
- Have the best of that pool of talent as potential future full time employees of the company
How ICT contributes to the organisational objectives:
The Talent Nursery gave the opportunity to the talented programmer students from low-income families to learn their
trade from more experienced colleagues in the real software development company environment. It also gave them a
chance to make their living while improving their major skills and learning new. Thus, it Not only fulfills user needs in
better education, but also gives them a chance to earn while they learn!
User needs:
At the time when the company was small and could Not afford to dedicate material resources and time of the qualified
programmers for Non-productive applications, there was a situation, when one programmer student - a relative of the
company owner - was
Summary:
At present, an average monthly family income in St. Petersburg is No more than $70, monthly state stipend for the
students is equal to $5. Thus, the talented youth from low-income families is placed virtually into the situation of
survival, with the only options either to give up their hopes for the higher education or to look for the full time job that
gives them the means to sustain themselves, but distracts them significantly from their main occupation. Not to mention
that they canNot afford to buy the computer equipment they need for their homework, neither they can afford to pay
for the Internet access, which is priced $0.39/hour the least ($50/month for the unlimited access).
The project was conceived in early 1999 to attract the most talented programmer students into the Talent Nursery
department of Arcadia, Inc., where they work as part time software developers on the real projects of the company,
guided and lead by the experienced project managers. Since the language of operation of the company is English,
Talent Nursery participants also receive the extensive "at work" language training.
Competition year:
2000