Mark Zuckerberg-led social media giant Facebook’s India arm has launched a startup and digital training hubs to help entrepreneurs start and scale up businesses besides allowing digital skills to job seekers.
By the online hubs, the firm points to train more than half a million people in India by 2020. The cores, which are billowed out in the country with help from local organizations, will give digital skills and training for those who are looking for work. The service will also advise managers on how to get started and help existing companies leverage the internet.
We worked with local organizations, including Digital Vidya, EDII (Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India), DharmaLife and StartupIndia, to develop the learning curriculum, which is available on mobile in English and Hindi. The curriculum involves skills for tech managers, including how to protect ideas, how to hire, how to go about gaining funding, what ordinances and legal difficulties one needs to consider and how to build an online report, the firm said in a statement.
This could mean developing a small business partner how to create an online presence, helping a non-profit range new communities and possible contributors or helping a tech entrepreneur turn his/her product idea into a startup through practical business advice, it said.
The digital training hub will provide free social and content marketing training for anyone – from students to business owners who are looking to develop digital skills. The curriculum covers social media basics, how to build and create an audience, how to create content, how to measure online activity and how to stay leading of the trajectory. It will also help people learn skills such as personal branding, digital storytelling, consumer behavior and reputation supervision.