[{"jcr:title":"Black in Tech: inclusion of young black people in the IT market","cq:tags_0":"tipos-de-conteudo:acontece-no-insper/institucional"},{"richText":"Professor Raulison Alves Resende, project’s creator, speaks about the initiative that will provide free technical formation to 40 young people from the suburbs","authorDate":"18/11/2022 11h50","madeBy":"Por","tag":"tipos-de-conteudo:acontece-no-insper","title":"Black in Tech: inclusion of young black people in the IT market","variant":"imagecolor"},{"jcr:title":"transparente - turquesa - vermelho"},{"themeName":"transparente - turquesa - vermelho"},{"containerType":"containerTwo"},{"jcr:title":"Grid Container Section","layout":"responsiveGrid"},{"text":"To offer free capacitation and support funds to 40 suburb talented young people — ideally 20 boys and 20 girls. This is Black in Tech (BiT) project’s goal, a project to include black young people from suburb in the information technology market. The idea is to select kids from ages between 18 and 24 years old, with complete high school and knowledge on informatics, to attend to a classroom awareness course package of approximately 700 hours, during a period of 5 months at Insper.   Each participant will receive a scholarship, equipment and necessary data connection to ensure best performance on the course. “The course includes an individual coaching for career follow up and guidance, at a manner the kids have the opportunity to plan and get prepared to trail a successful professional path”, says Raulison Alves Resende, project’s creator and Insper’s professor.   The project already counts on technical support from tech companies  [SAP](https://www.sap.com/brazil/index.html) ,  [Microsoft](https://www.microsoft.com/pt-br)  and  [Amazon Web Services](https://aws.amazon.com/pt/) (AWS), as well as from  [Educafro](https://www.educafro.org.br/site/) , organization that promotes inclusion of black population in public and private universities, and from  [Brazil – United States Cultural Center](https://www.ccbeu.com.br/)  (CCBEU), to provide support on teaching English. The initiative is open for participation of other companies. “Partnerships are of fundamental importance to run the BiT and can take place in different phases”, says Resende, who gives more details on the project in the interview to follow.   How did the idea to create the program Black in Tech?   In February 2020, I finished a research called “Between labor perspective and the principle of dignity of human person: a proposal for Goias jail system’s egress”, from the public policy specialization course from Goias Federal University Social Sciences Faculty (UFG). The objective was to investigate the inefficiency or absence of public policies for young people in the peripheral regions where the population mostly composed of black and brown people presents social indicators lower from white people, clearly showing the reality of inequality and racial discrimination in Goiania, Goias State and in Brazil.   The results of the research were alarming. Among them, the super low performance of the education in Brazil regarding indexes from the Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA, as well as from the high level of violence and criminality, potentiated by inefficiency and absence of local infrastructure.   Those are inequalities that wildly generates profound unbalances on family systems, that lose their structures and succumb to other types and levels of atrocities. The amount of suburb women exposed to different types of vulnerability and violence is enormous, i.e. femicide. In other hand, we see the male population in jail at a scary number, getting to three generations of men in Goias’ jail system. As consequence, the intersection between suburb femicide and men jail population leads to the high criminality level of young orphans and, due to that, hostages from criminal world. A reality that affects suburbs from all Brazilian territory.   I was drowned of a latent hope that moved me to think and to build social intervention actions by finding a great amount of 18- to 24-year-old talented black young boys and girls from suburb who did high school. With some informatic skills, I saw that what they needed was any job opportunity to provide home subsistence.   This is how the Black in Tech Project – BiT was raised. It has the objective to offer excellence technical short-term IT formation to quickly employ these young people to prevent them to be attracted by organized crime world. This is an action to solve, or minimize racial and social inequalities originated on Brazilian slavery history. In order to achieve that, Insper is working to ensure psychological safety and mental health from these young people in every step of the project that have its essence aligned to the Program Cuidar – Lives Caring for Lives, which is an innovative and disruptive proposal from the school.   Why did you choose technology specialty to include young people to include the ones who will get benefit by the program?   Brasscom, Association of Information Technology, Communication and Digital Technology Companies, published a report presenting a projection that, in 2021 and 2015, tech companies will request 797,000 talents. However, with undergraduate number below the demand, projection is of an annual deficit of 106,000 people, completing a total amount of 530,000 in five years. These are number that reflect, as Brasscom, a fast growth on the IT sector clearly showing the urgent need that professional formation is also increased in the same rhythm. Analyzing Brasscom numbers, in addition to the countless press articles on the opportunities in IT area, I saw the opportunity of changing the social and economic reality of Brazilian young black people, who don’t have condition of investing to attending to undergraduation to even achieve the results after two, four or five years. Then the insight came from a fast technical excellence formation, in partnership with the great IT market players.   How will the selection process be?   Applications will be done through Insper website. All the process with will done in conjunction with the companies interested in hiring young people, who will be assessed mainly regarding human competence (soft skills) and their vocation in informatics area. Mandatorily, in order to participate, the main requirement is to be black young person from suburb, in ages from 18 to 24 years old, who completed high school.   How will their capacitation be? What will they learn?   The youngsters will attend to a hybrid mode capacitation, meaning classroom and remote learning, from Monday to Saturday, completing a total of 36 weekly hours (6 hours a day). In total, the program will last for 20 weeks, with a 695-hour total workload.   In addition to a technical formation to be chosen by the students, among Microsoft, SAP and AWS trails, the course will include logical thought and programming logics. design thinking and agile methodologies classes. Participants will also have soft skills development, racial awareness, in addition to Portuguese, Mathematics and English lessons to reinforce contents comprehension. Insper professors and external market mentors will also teach Effective Troubleshooting (ERP) methodology, the one used in university’s Business undergraduation.   The course includes an individual coaching for career follow up and guidance, at a manner the youngsters have the opportunity of planning and getting ready to trail a successful professional path.   What will happen to them after concluding capacitation?   One of Black in Tech – BiT’s highest impacts is the rupture with the historic and discriminatory practice of underemployment for black population. We will prepare and include these youngsters in the market with the greatest IT players. allowing the social and economic ascension of countless suburb black families, historically left aside the society.   I feel the youngster attending the BiT will be a liberty lighthouse to give the opportunity of shining to many other Brazilian black young persons of current and further generations.   This initiative counts with the support of partner companies. Speak a bit on the importance of those partnerships and how this support will be.   Yes, these are companies who have been partnering since the conception of this innovative and bold idea, developed within one of main superior education and research institution, developed. With EQUIS certification — quality recognition issued by the European Foundation —, we started to belong also to the top business schools in the world, less than 1% who have the so-called triple crown, with world’s three most respected recognition in the market (AMBA, AACSB and EQUIS). The accreditation reinforces our commitment with internationalization and reflects out teaching high level of excellence among the best schools on the planet.   I mean the companies who already came and the ones who will join Black in Tech will make part of a select group of Insper partnerships and will have global visibility as companies who act and engage with diversity, equity and inclusion policies, such as Microsoft, SAP, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CCBEU, Educafro, Brasscom, and others.   Insper is committed with world’s diversity and inclusion, thus BiT, with all its magnitude of proposed objectives, suffice at least seven of the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs): poverty eradication; health and wellbeing; quality education; decent work and economic growth; industry, innovation and infrastructure; reduction of inequalities; partnerships and implementation means.   In this way, the partnerships are of fundamental importance to execute BiT and can be held in different stages. For every step, we need a group of companies cooperating in the project. In the first one, to find the youngsters. In the second one, to instruct them and, in the third, to include them in the companies (on-boarding).   For the last stage, we are making a joint venture of companies committed to change the economic and social reality of suburb black youngsters by means of short-term technical education of excellence. Each company is committed of supporting the selection of a minimum of four youngsters, follow them during formation with provision of scholarship to ensure best performance in the course, following by their hiring.   Technical support is done by Microsoft, SAP and Amazon Web Services (AWS), and is open to other interested companies."}]