To combat the shortage of programmers and engineers from underrepresented ethnic groups in the United States, Facebook announced Wednesday a new effort called Tech Prep.
Tech Prep is a portal that organizes digital and physical resources for learning computer science and programming based on the age of the person, their experience with the subject and student interest.
The Tech Prep site is available in Spanish and English, but the availability of resources in Spanish varies. Among the digital resources are Coursera, Khan Academy and Mozilla Thimble.
For the technology industry, in particular Facebook – which has set its sights connecting everyone in the world – to increase the diversity of its labor body could attract more diverse consumers
“. Cognitive diversity because we care to bring together people with different characteristics have the ability to develop better products to serve nearly 1,500 million people around the world, “said the director of global diversity of Facebook, Maxine Williams, in the official statement on Tech Prep , referring to the number of users who already have the social network based in Menlo Park, California.
However, according to figures from Facebook, Hispanics make up only 4 percent of its labor body in the United States and . All employees of the company in this country, only 3 percent work in areas of technology
This low figure may be related, according to research by consulting firm McKinsey & amp; Co., to 77 percent of black and Hispanic parents say children do not know how to help their children to pursue careers in computer science.
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One of the ways on how Facebook wants to publicize more Tech Prep on matters of science and computer programming is to provide one place for the parents, guardians and young blacks and Latinos in the United States to expose them to science and computer programming, Williams said.
Facebook is not alone in wanting to help parents and Latino youth find information online to learn how to program and enhance their careers.
In August 2014, the Carlos Slim Foundation launched in the United States Spanish Latino portal centralizing access free content with topics ranging from education, immigration, health and culture for Latinos living in the US Among the resources are the same as Tech Prep. Khan Academy, Coursera and the prestigious MIT university
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