Samsung to launch schools to train youth in developing apps

NEW DELHI: Samsung Electronics India has entered into an agreement with the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) to open schools offering skill development courses based on the company’s Tizen operating system, the first such initiative in India.

To be called the Samsung Digital Academy, each school will train youth to develop apps that run on Tizen across smartphones, televisions and tablets and create a pool of talent that specialises in leveraging software development and testing on the operating system, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Samsung has pinned its success on the Tizen operating system-based smartphone – Z1 – in the affordable segment.