Google EMEA head: There's a 'tremendous opportunity' to modernize education

"Much like the crisis has accelerated the use of technology, technology can now accelerate the exit from the crisis." With this optimistic message, last month President of EMEA Business & Operations for Google Matt Brittin announced the company's ambitious new initiative called Grow Greece with Google: an overarching public-private partnership that aims to support the country's recovery through the use of innovative technology.

In the program's first phase, digital skills take precedence. Through a memorandum of cooperation recently signed between Google and the Greek Manpower Employment Organization, more than 3,000 young unemployed Greeks will cultivate their digital skills by participating in Google's cutting-edge training programs free of charge. During the second phase of the programs, the participants will be paired with a number of companies and gain paid work...