Portland is on track to support 300 jobs in Palestinian small and medium sizeds IT outsourcing firms, based in underserved regions of the West Bank through a ground- breaking intensive three-month bootcamp that combines cutting edge technical skills, business acumen and soft skills to accelerate Palestinian developers and ready them for employment.
The programme has an 88% placement rate and includes trainees from East Jerusalem and Gaza, as well as a 67% female participation rate. The programme is part of a broader initiative, scaling up in 2022, to inspire and empower talented college graduates and professionals to develop innovative solutions for real-world problems through advanced technologies, all to help catalyse exponential growth in the sector, leading to the employment of thousands of developers, engineers and others, making a significant contribution to GDP. Learn more here.