Sao Paulo — Facebook unveiled its first training centre in Latin America for coders and entrepreneurs, encouraging technology careers for young Brazilians saddled with staggering unemployment after a deep economic crisis. The company’s regional vice-president, Diego Dzodan, said the space in midtown Sao Paulo, known as Estação Hack, would bridge the gap in Brazil between a tech sector hungry for skilled talent and an eager, but untrained, generation with time on their hands. "Imagine the opportunity," Dzodan told Reuters in an interview at Facebook’s Latin America headquarters. "You’ve got people without a job, so they can’t afford training. And yet there’s so much demand for positions that the market can’t fill," Dzodan said. One in four Brazilians aged 18 to 24, most of whom have more formal education than their parents, were unemployed at the start of 2017, as the country’s worst downturn on record stunted the careers of a generation of young workers. Facebook’s 1,000m² space on ...
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