November 5, 2019

About Partners

The 4IR Skills Initiative is a registered trademark, registered in South Africa under G-CITI Campus. The trademark serves to create an awareness of 4IR Skills in South Africa, and across Africa.

The 4IR Skills Initiative aims to create a world class community of talent skilled in the most desirable skills. The unique learning platforms ensure that you receive best in class training and development, preparing you for employment or entrepreneurship on completion.

Genesis CITI / G-CITI Campus, Masterskill and Certiport has partnered to roll out 4IR Skills in South Africa, and also across South Africa. The 3 dimensional partnership is a strong force that will enable ups killing to take place in a continental approach.

G-CITI Campus is a registered for profit company that focuses on Academia Training / Training College & Digital Skills Accelerator within the IT & Business sector in South Africa. It focuses on offering global vendor certification to impact the potential digital workforce. G-CITI Campus has a social arm, called Genesis Community IT Initiative, which has a partnership with Western Cape Government. The public-private partnership called the I-CAN Centre, focuses on access to technology, adoption of technology and the empowerment of digital skills.

Masterskill, founded in 1995, is one of South Africa’s leading providers of IT and Business educational content and services to training centres, tertiary education institutions and corporate organisations.

Through strategic partnerships, we strive to deliver a quick turn-around time when the latest courses, technologies and examinations are released into the market. This is due to our solid agreements with courseware and certification partners who are closely aligned to international vendors.

What sets Masterskill apart as an industry leader, is our unremitting dedication to providing a comprehensive suite of services based on the specific learning requirements of the learner. In addition to generic courseware titles, we offer services that allow clients to create customised training material from a combination of collective titles. Our courseware is renowned for its ease of preparation for facilitators, and is strategically made up of hands-on activities and practical labs that are accessible, relatable, engaging and learner-focused.

Since our inception, Masterskill has been distributing courseware content into the market to assist in educational empowerment, allowing clients the opportunity to provide quality training initiatives. We continue to grow alongside the industry, expanding our services and providing advanced learning solutions.

Certiport, a Pearson VUE business, was established in 1997 and is now the leading provider of certification exam development, delivery, and program management services.  Certiport exams are delivered through an expansive network of over 14,000 Certiport Authorized Testing Centers worldwide.

Certiport delivers more than three million exams each year through the secondary, post-secondary, workforce, and corporate technology markets in 148 countries and 26 languages.

The 4IR Skills Initiative will focus on the following vocational areas through global vendor certification: