February 04, 2010
New project funding will enhance ICTC’s Workshops Online for internationally educated ICT Francophone and Anglophone professionals in Canada
Based on the success of its recently launched Workshops Online: Immigration to Integration,
an online e-learning tool for internationally educated professionals
(IEPs) and immigration stakeholders, the Information and Communications
Technology Council (ICTC) is proud to announce the next phase of this
project that will further enhance its goal to help integrate
French-speaking as well as English-speaking IEP talent into Canada’s
ICT workforce.
The Enhanced Online Learning Workshops: Francophone Edition and New
Language/Communications Module for Newcomers in Information and
Communications Technology project will extend ICTC’s Workshops Online to include a francophone audience, with the help of funding from Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
The current Workshops Online,
available only in English, provides ICT sector-specific information and
resources for newcomers and those organizations serving newcomers to
boost awareness and knowledge about ICT in order to improve newcomer
integration and employment in the ICT sector.
In the next phase of this initiative, ICTC will be translating Workshops Online
into French as well as adapting the tool to include new learning
material based on consultations with ICT francophone newcomers and
immigration stakeholders along with pilot testing across Canada in
francophone communities and overseas in French sourcing countries. In
addition, a new workshop will be added on Online Enhanced Language
Training for newcomers in ICT. The new online learning workshop module
extensions will address language training and labour market integration
in both English and French.
“This project is complementary to ICTC’s current Immigration
Initiatives’ work and will help to ensure that IEPs can be better
integrated into the ICT sector in Canada,” said Paul D. Swinwood,
president of ICTC as the project was announced today.
If you would like to be part of the consultation process, contact ICTC at: immigration@ictc-ctic.ca
ICTC’s Workshops Online (in English) can be accessed free of charge from the ICTC website at:
http://workshops.ictc-ctic.caFor more information, please contact:
Tammy Bokhari
Communications Manager, Immigration Initiatives
Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC)
(613) 237-8551 ext. 129
t.bokhari@ictc-ctic.ca