The high demand for programmers and software developers in Latin America is once again in the news Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) by 2025, the information technology industry will need to employ 1.2 million programmers in the region. However, achieving this will be a challenge for various Latin governments and companies.

For example, In Colombia, the gap for professionals in the technology sector, especially IT, is 53,000, but by 2025 it could increase to 200,000 unfilled positions in programming. The above are analyzes conducted by Fedesoft IT Observatory and the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies.

The situation seems to be no different between different Latin American nations, and it also extends to other technological sectors beyond communications, for example in the cyber security industry The information is distributed by the company Mnemo The labor shortage is a million vacancies who could not occupy the entire subcontinent.

Likewise, this is not a situation that only affects the technology industry, because just as more workers are needed every day in programming and software development, those interested in working in these fields must evolve as consumption habits change. Human society, as the World Economic Forum (WEF) has predicted that more than 42% of all jobs in the sector will change significantly by this year, and Professionals will need to acquire new skills such as the use of advanced analytics, co-creation tools and design thinking.

developer series

TV show called Cod3rs ChampionshipProduced by technology company IBM, marketing agency Ogilvy and content production company StoryLab, and We present to you the life experiences of several people working as developers from Latin America and the motivations that led them to specialize in this discipline.

It should be noted that the 20 people who tell their stories as programmers and show their projects in the series were the finalists of the competition organized by IBM in 2020, where the participants faced various challenges of the working life of developers.

Creating this type of content can help many people who don’t know what to do professionally, make a decision and clarify their questions, because this project is an initiative that encourages people to specialize in this type of work that is in demand. .

Tony Martins, general manager of IBM Technology for Latin America, noted that “the labor market continues to evolve by leaps and bounds, and there is an ever-increasing need for completely disruptive talent and skills to create a new world.”

The series is available Amazon Prime Video.

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