Feb 20, 7pm Learning Center Rm 28 (LC28)
Social entrepreneur and innovator Jessica Jackley will lead a conversation with Coders4Africa co-founder Amadou Daffe and CRCC Board Chair and C4A supporter, Woody Kerkeslager, about C4A’s Initiative on” Education for Innovation, Entrepreneurship
and Sustainability in Africa”
Coders4Africa is an organization that provides African programmers and developers a gateway to free high quality training and certification in the main technologies and platforms that currently dominate the software development industry. Their vision is to create and support a Pan-African community of internationally certified IT professionals focused on developing the IT tools for African Agriculture, Business, Education, Health Care, Government and general social needs, by leveraging the rapid development and evolution of the wireless communications and Internet access platform in Africa. Their goal is to educate, certify and continue to support a cadre of 1000+ Pan-African software developers utilizing mobile, web and database development platforms by 2016.
Coders4Africa is actively working to introduce Development Hubs across Africa, providing developers an open space to innovate and create solutions that solve problems their community faces. Ultimately, Coder4Africa aims to encourage the Pan-African community to become a catalyst, playing a prominent role in providing technology-based tools tailored to meet local needs. Visit the Coders4Africa website
Please join us Feb 20th, when social entrepreneur and innovator Jessica Jackley, the 2013 Barer Visting Fellow, leads a conversation with C4A co-founder, Amadou Daffe, and CRCC Board Chair and C4A supporter, Woody Kerkeslager.
This series is possible through the generosity of the Sol J. Barer Family
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