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Africa Code Week 2017: Over 1.3m Young Africans learnt Coding across 35 Countries

Ade Adewale — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 11:52:47 +0000

With an ambitious target of training half a million African youth between 18 and 25 October, Africa Code Week again this year exceeded all expectations by empowering 1.3 million youth across 35 countries with basic coding skills. This is also a 203% increase over the 2016 iteration, which saw nearly 427 000 youth trained across [...]

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SAP Africa Code Week 2017 launched in Tanzania to cater for Half a Million Young Coders

Ade Adewale — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:42:45 +0000

Africa Code Week (ACW) officially kicked-off in Tanzania today in the presence of Government officials and hundreds of pupils from surrounding areas kicking off the first series of live coding workshops. Hon. Prof. Joyce Ndalichako Tanzanian Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Vocational Training, joined SAP alongside Hon. Ciaran Cannon, Irish Minister of State for [...]

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Future of Insurance Very Near, Digital Transformation Imperative – Orsmond

Ade Adewale — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:42:02 +0000

The Financial Services Industry Head at SAP Africa, Darrel Orsmond, has opined that the future of insurance is very near and the digital transformation in the sector is imperative. The insurance industry is facing its very own Kodak moment. Forty years after the once heart-warming 1970s ad slogan became part of popular culture, it now reminds [...]

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SAP Skills for Africa: First East African Chapter launched with Participation from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda

Ade Adewale — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:46:06 +0000

SAP Skills for Africa today, 19th July 2017 launched its first-ever East African programme at an event held in Nairobi, Kenya. Skills for Africa is a skills development initiative between SAP Africa, its customers, and various public and private sector partners. It focuses on training and certifying graduates in a broad spectrum of SAP software [...]

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SAP Sponsors Africa Code Week 2016 to Tackle Continent’s Digital Skills Gap

Ade Adewale — Wed, 11 May 2016 19:10:18 +0000

According to the release from WALLDORF, Germany today, SAP will train more than 150,000 youth in 30 African countries this year to foster digital literacy and equip the continent’s rising generation with job-relevant digital skills. SAP’s Africa Code Week 2016 will run from October 15 – 23, 2016, with thousands of free coding workshops and [...]

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