Cisco Highlights Legacy With Online Show
With less than 100 days until the opening ceremony, Cisco – the official network infrastructure partner of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games – is set to host a live WebTV show from Cisco House this morning, overlooking the Olympic Park, to highlight how the team is using education to build a brilliant future and legacy of London 2012.
Cisco hopes to demonstrate how technology can change the way we work, live, play and learn, providing an ongoing programme to accelerate skills, learning and innovation with the key focus on STEM (Science, technology, engineering and Maths) and Innovation.
The Networking Academy (NetAcad) programme aims to help fill the growing need for information and communications technology (ICT) and networking professionals, in order to improve education and career opportunities in communities around the world, as well as right here in the UK.
Through NetAcad, students who gain ICT knowledge and practical experience through the programme can earn Cisco career certifications and help fill an estimated eight million networking jobs around the world.
The show will be live and interactive and streamed at www.studiotalk.co.uk from 11am today (Monday).
With the first programme launching in 1997, Cisco now has 600 NetAcad programmes in the UK, in diverse places such as community centres, homeless shelters, football clubs, prisons and military bases as well as traditional schools, colleges and universities.
One man who has witnessed firsthand the benefits of the programme is Sean Kelly. During a two and a half year prison sentence, Sean decided to train in the Cisco Academy PICTA course, which he then continued upon release.
Log into the webTV show where Sean, alongside Ian Foddering, Cisco’s UK chief technical officer, will discuss how NetAcad forms part of the London 2012 Legacy programme and how others will benefit.
