Filipino software developers may get MIT certification

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By Lawrence Casiraya
The Philippine Daily Inquirer

Outsourcing firm Accenture is running a training program that would allow its Filipino software developers to be granted certification by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

MIT's Professional Education Programs (MIT-PEP) will help design the Accenture Solutions Delivery Academy, a worldwide initiative that targets to train some 20,000 of the company's workers.

The local Accenture office is enrolling around 100 Filipino software professionals into the program, the company said in a statement.

Employees who successfully complete the program are awarded "application developer" or "application designer" certifications by Accenture and MIT-PEP.

The certification gives recognition to software engineering, system integration and application delivery skills.