{"id":30245,"date":"2015-01-06T00:55:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T19:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/?p=30245"},"modified":"2019-05-21T11:56:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T06:26:22","slug":"the-it-skills-gap-rise-of-the-citizen-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/the-it-skills-gap-rise-of-the-citizen-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"The IT Skills Gap: Rise of the Citizen Developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCitizen\u201d has evolved to refer to a consumer-level or informally trained individual who participates in the formal functions of a profession. The citizen developer will typically write programs and\/or modifications to existing programs and post the results on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Social network\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener noreferrer\">social networks<\/a> and various Internet-based forums.<\/p>\n<p>Corporations have been encouraging the citizen developers in their ranks by having their IT teams provide them with tools to develop new programs in an effort to stay ahead of their competition.\u00a0 As the potential of end-user application development is realized, the demand for citizen developers grows. There may come a time in the future when apps created by citizen developers make up the majority of programs used in the corporate world.<\/p>\n<p>This infographic (Source), created by the University of Alabama at Birmingham highlights the citizen developer from a corporate perspective as well as predicts the job growth outlook and demand for these skills.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30246\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IT-Skills-Gap-Citizen-Developer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30246\" alt=\"Rise of the Citizen Developer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IT-Skills-Gap-Citizen-Developer.png\" width=\"1000\" height=\"6043\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rise of the Citizen <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Real estate development\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Real_estate_development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener noreferrer\">Developer<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCitizen\u201d has evolved to refer to a consumer-level or informally trained individual who participates in the formal functions of a profession. The citizen developer will typically write programs and\/or modifications to existing programs and post the results on social networks and various Internet-based forums. Corporations have been encouraging the citizen developers in their ranks by&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/the-it-skills-gap-rise-of-the-citizen-developer\/\" title=\"The IT Skills Gap: Rise of the Citizen Developer\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The IT Skills Gap: Rise of the Citizen Developer<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1952],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/RiseOfTheCitizenDeveloper.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}