The seminar took place within the framework of the regional IPDC project, Strengthening Media as a Platform for Democratic Discourse through TrainingandApplication of ICT Tools.
NIACE's research into digital learning has been able to inform the way that we have devised and delivered national programmes of staff trainingand organisation-wide application of technology.
While COBOL has not gone away at the banks, more and more of the technical staff spend their time programming new features and interfaces in modern languages and web application frameworks that provide highly applicable and transferable skills to startups only too happy to hire them for their technical trainingand domain experience.