The digital divide ("fracture numérique") is defined as the gap in training between the people with low IT skills and the people with high IT skills.
The vision of the DDH social startup (Digital Divide Healers") is that this gap will grow due to the massive growth of IT devices and applications.
Brussels is a beautiful area to live in but facing big challenges, including a rate of unemployment near 20%. The paradox is that about IT jobs, there is a shortage of manpower in the same area for many organizations. There is a clear need of IT training to bridge the gap between some of these unemployed persons and some of the job profiles required by many companies.
So the DDH social startup is providing internships and jobs to IT students with few diplomas (further education school, self study) but eager to work for private and business customers.
However, new ways to learn Information Technology are required, specially for that category of persons. A key way to effectively learn is "by making" so the underlying activity of the Digital Divide Healers is "Information Technology Training by making", working for real customers and supported by IT senior experts.
