Introduction:
Robo Co-op and Automation Anywhere are initiating a Global Gateway program for the digital inclusion of refugees, leveraging the strengths of both organizations to empower refugees with cutting-edge digital skills. This partnership aims to redefine the landscape of refugee inclusion, accelerating impact sourcing for expanding job inclusion opportunities for digital career development.
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About Robo Co-op:
Robo Co-op is a visionary refugee-led cooperative for the digital inclusion of refugees with its aspiration to co-create 100,000 job opportunities. This is an online community where anyone can join from anywhere in the world to develop a digital career.
Group learning fosters social capital and increases members’ resilience towards digital reskilling and upskilling. Digital projects via remote work enable members to work flexibly from anywhere they want or need to be.
Robo Co-op is committed to equality and democratic decision-making, helping refugees regain hope worldwide.
Robo Co-op is also a game-changer in the realm of job inclusion for refugees through its digital impact sourcing. It creates a new type of corporate engagement by successfully outsourcing their IT projects to impact sourcing vendors like Robo Co-op, creating job opportunities for refugees. This approach addresses challenges not solved by traditional impact hiring where corporates directly hire refugees, creating more open, efficient, and flexible options for job inclusion of refugees. Robo Co-op aims to bridge the gap between 100 million refugees globally and the growing demand for 100 million digital workers.
Partnership: The Global Gateway Program
Our initiative is named “Global Gateway Program”. In the age of intelligent automation with generative AI, the global job market is undergoing a significant transformation with improved productivity and large job cuts as tradeoff. Robo Co-op and Automation Anywhere are in partnership at the forefront of this challenge, offering refugees reskilling and upskilling opportunities.
Robo Co-op co-creates a curriculum to teach automation skills with Automation Anywhere’s social impact scholarship program that offers courses and certificates. Automation Anywhere will also provide on the job training (OJT) opportunities through test automation of new Automation Anywhere features, providing occasions for refugees to showcase their professional capability in delivering high quality software assurance. Automation Anywhere and Robo Co-Op’s shared goal for the Global Gateway Program is to upskill 100 refugees over the next three years.
The pilot is already going beyond borders. A Syrian member in Türkiye and a Burmese member in Myanmar are already training Ukrainian and Afghan female members who fled to Tokyo, opening a digital gateway for global pioneers. The partnership accelerates both social mobility and global mobility. Refugees would climb up the base of social pyramidal with digital skills, while enjoying the freedom of mobility to live anywhere they want with remote work opportunities.
Global Gateway Program