The Emergency Response Technology Policy Research Center at Dong-A University has signed a business agreement with the Digital Content Council of the Korea Internet Corporations Association, an ICT industry organization, regarding the "Training of Local Outstanding Developers."
The Korea Internet Corporations Association counts major members such as Naver, Kakao, Coupang, Gmarket, Nexon Korea, SK Communications, NCSoft, Meta Korea, Woowa Brothers, Dunamu, Netflix, ByteDance, and Yanolja.
This agreement aims to jointly discover and nurture outstanding local developers by training talents specialized in "digital therapeutics" in a super-aged society and giving them priority recommendations for employment.
Through this business agreement, the Digital Content Council of the Korea Internet Corporations Association will also support the operation of the "Gerontechnology-based AI Platform Developer Training Course" promoted by the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation and the Emergency Response Technology Policy Research Center at Dong-A University.
Specifically, experts from various game companies will participate as judges in the specialized training contest to provide students with evaluation feedback, and Dong-A University’s unique mentoring system, the "Dongjwamundo (同坐問道) Program," will be implemented to motivate them.
Officials from Dong-A University Emergency Response Technology Policy Research Center and the Korea Internet Corporations Association Digital Content Council are taking a commemorative photo after signing a business agreement.
Director Lee Dong-gyu said, "Through this relay business agreement, we will strive to ensure that trainees do not merely receive training but can successfully enter employment or start-up paths planned by the center," adding, "It will be a great opportunity and credential for young people to propose solutions to the problems of the super-aged city of Busan."
A representative of the Digital Content Council of the Korea Internet Corporations Association said, "We think it is a good opportunity to nurture talents specialized in digital therapeutics through the specialized training and contest conducted by Dong-A University."
They continued, "We will cooperate to nurture outstanding local developers by utilizing the expert pool," and added, "It would be great to find ways to utilize Busan’s various infrastructures and to exhibit digital therapeutics projects planned by students at major expos."
Dong-A University was selected as the operating institution for the "2023 2nd Specialized Training for Responding to Industrial Structure Changes" project and is running the "Gerontechnology-based AI Platform Developer Training Course." The course is designed to allow learning in website creation, Python, Java, big data, and more.
Those wishing to complete the course can apply through the Emergency Response Technology Policy Research Center website at Dong-A University.
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