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World Robot Olympiad’s local hosts celebrate growth in STEM talent

Projected to create 230 million digital jobs by 2030, Africa’s future workforce is being prepared today through initiatives like the World Robot Olympiad (WRO)….

South Africa’s digital nomad visa: Opportunity or threat to local coders?

South Africa is on the cusp of rolling out a new digital nomad visa aimed at attracting remote workers and highly skilled professionals from…

How women could solve the technology industry’s talent drought

The technology industry is facing a severe talent crunch, with an estimated 85.2 million unfilled software developer job vacancies projected by 2030, according to…

Teach technology skills at all education levels, plead experts

Technology literacy and digital literacy are crucial for Africa’s future. And while we are making progress with the introduction of coding in primary schools…

HyperionDev and UCT partner to teach lawyers to code

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are existential threats to the law profession. In 2016 a famous Deloitte report predicted that 114 000 legal jobs…

GirlCode partners with Amazon to upskill unemployed women

GirlCode South Africa has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create a free joint learnership training programme targeted at 30 unemployed women for…

South African edtech WeThinkCode launches Durban Campus

South African edtech startup WeThinkCode has opened a campus in Durban and is encouraging interested locals to apply for its maiden cohort software programme…

Tech scholarship programme worth R3.5-million to launch

Local edtech startup HyperionDev plans to launch R3.5-million worth of coding scholarships for locals with the assistance of an impact investment opportunity that encourages the…

Coding bootcamps: The end of an era

Lets face it. Developer training has become boring. We see the same training programmes doing the same things with each using fancier words to…

Applications for LaunchLab coding school close this Friday

Stellenbosch based incubator LaunchLab in partnership with the University of Botswana has launched a coding school and is calling on students to apply as…

This Google-backed startup from SA is training thousands of coders

If South Africa is to really become a knowledge economy, it seriously needs to develop the youth’s Computer Science skills. That’s a no-brainer. But…

Brothers for All: the inspiring school teaching underprivileged people how to code

This week, Brothers For All is starting its first pilot project in two of South Africa’s Western Cape prisons, equipping underprivileged people with valuable…

Meet iXperience: the startup that’s teaching US college kids how to code in Africa

When you think about Africa, foreign kids traveling to the continent to learn how to code isn’t the first thing that comes to mind….

Wanna build a startup from scratch? Why not learn Ruby on Rails

Daniel Kehoe is the author of Learn Ruby on Rails — a book that comprehensively covers the programming language from Git to Gems. We…

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