Bandung, Indonesia – Today Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) together with Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) strictly non-stop a BlackBerry® Innovation Center during a university’s executive campus in Bandung, Indonesia. The BlackBerry Innovation Center will broach ITB students a horde of educational and investigate programs focused on mobile app development. The ultimate idea of a BlackBerry Innovation Center is to accelerate a mobile computing attention in Indonesia by providing students with a skills, preparation and knowledge they need to get jobs and build businesses in a sector.
Hastings Singh, Vice President and Managing Director, South Asia during RIM commented, “RIM is committed to Indonesia, and underlying a estimable investment we are creation to settle a BlackBerry Innovation Center, it is a idea to maintain and accelerate mobile focus growth from a talent within Indonesia. Today’s rite will strictly symbol a commencement of a successful collaborative bid with a Government of Indonesia and ITB – a interjection goes to all those concerned in ancillary this pioneering initiative.”
RIM has been operative with over 50 universities, colleges and schools opposite Indonesia by identical initiatives underneath a BlackBerry Academic Program, that provides materials and calm to teach students on BlackBerry mobile app development.The module has laid a foundations for a BlackBerry Innovation Center, that will supplement additional resources, support, technical expertise, and unsentimental knowledge to capacitate students to allege their skills and pursue a career in a mobile computing sector.
Professor Suhono Supangkat, Chairman of a ITB Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development said, “We are gay to see that this beginning has been brought to life. ITB students have positively shown their fad towards a programs, that is clear in a high series of applications we have perceived from impending students. We wish a BlackBerry Innovation Center will furnish destiny entrepreneurs and leaders for a Indonesian mobile computing industry.”
As partial of RIM’s partnership with ITB, any year for a subsequent 5 years, 30 students will be awarded with investigate scholarships in Mobile Computing. This year, 16 scholarships have already been postulated by a university to Masters and Postgraduate students, with a remaining 14 awards shortly to be awarded to gifted undergraduate students that are now completing their final year.
The grant recipients for a Masters Program are Firman Azhari, Muhammad Najib, Gradytama Elkana, Atmaji Rangga Adinugroho, Adi Bhasyudewo Kawi, Mirza Adipradhana, Yohanssen Pratama, Gitarja Sandi, Ardhian Ekawijan, Dicky Arinal, Puspoko Ponco Ratno, and Rizky Ario Nugroho. The recipients for a Postgraduate Program are Iqbal Rahmadian Pamungkas, Oktariani Nurul Pratiwi, Susetyo Bagas Bhaskoro, and Iksan Nur.
Scholarship awardees will have their fee fees paid and also advantage from a investigate bursary for their duration of investigate during a BlackBerry Innovation Center. Many of a students will also be versed with a laptop mechanism and a BlackBerry smartphone to foster mobile learning. During their time during a BlackBerry Innovation Center, any grant target will accept in-depth training on a BlackBerry growth environment, assisting ready them for endeavour a investigate plan travelling one to 3 years in length.
Referring to a grant process, Professor Suhono Supangkat from ITB commented, “The students are comparison by a routine of talk and evaluation. We are unapproachable to acknowledge a intensity of any one of them today, and we acquire them to a BlackBerry Innovation Center.”
For some-more information about a BlackBerry Innovation Center, greatfully visit: http://id.blackberry.com/ITB/.
Information about scholarships can be found on ITB’s website: http://www.itb.ac.id/en/
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