Google has launched 40,000 new developer scholarships in Africa-The programme targets developers spread across mobile and cloud development tracks. Google is partnering with two other companies, Pluralsight a technology workforce development company and Andela an engineering talent network to offer the scholarships. In a statement released by the company, Google will ...
Gebeya has launched Gebeya Talent, a Pan-African online talent marketplace for freelancers across the continent and around the globe. The talent marketplace aims to help connect African talent to freelance work by automatically matching them with work opportunities in seconds, other peers in their sectors, provide mentorship and free upskilling ...
Andela is doing away with full-time developer jobs, as it transitions its workforce into gig workers. Current engineers/developers will be transitioned into contractors, afterwhich they will only be paid when they are staffed. A statement from the company read, “We announced last week that we would be allowing engineers to ...
Software talent company Andela could be closing all of its offices to go completely remote in Africa. The news comes barely a month after laying off 135 employees due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Close sources have revealed that the software development firm has already sold off its equipment to a ...
Andela and Microsoft 4Afrika have partnered to up-skill developers in Kenya and Nigeria where selected developers will learn basic skills in Azure, via the LinkedIn Learning platform. Andela says the program, dubbed the ALCwithMicrosoft Azure Training 2020, will train software engineers in the basics of Azure. The engineers will build, ...
Andela, a Pan-African software engineering talent startup, has just announced that it has laid off 135 staff across the four countries it operates in including Uganda and Nigeria. Rwanda and Ghana have been spared in the layoff which will be effective from Friday, May 8th. Also, engineers will not be ...
Andela, the company building distributed engineering teams with Africa’s top software developers, today announced the completion of a $100M Series D funding. The round was led by Generation Investment Management with participation from existing investors including Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GV, Spark Capital, and CRE Venture Capital. The most recent financing ...
Andela, the Nigerian founded pan-African company training software developers has launched in Kigali, Rwanda, its fourth African market in partnership with the Government of Rwanda through the Rwanda Development Board. Through the partnership, Andela will open applications to candidates from any African country looking to jumpstart a global career in ...
Moringa School has launched a women’s bootcamp program in November 2017 with a 50% subsidy to help it graduate over 100 women and test the effectiveness of coding bootcamps on women's outcomes. Dubbed Moringa Prep, the bootcamps are targeted at students who want access to world-class coding content. According to Audrey Cheng, ...
Andela has secured $40M in Series C funding to launch offices in two additional African countries over the next year, doubling its developer base from 500 to 1,000 to meet growing demand. Andela is present in Nigeria, Kenya and recently launched in Uganda. We don't want to speculate but the ...
Powered by Google and Udacity, the Andela Learning Community (ALC) launched in Nigeria in February 2017 as ALC 1.0 and attracted over 4500 applications and with 2000 learners successfully going through the program. Andela has today announced that the online Android course is now available in Kenya as ALC 2.0 ...
Pan-African software services and edtech platform Gebeya, has launched its developers marketplace in London, UK in a move expected to increase the accessibility of software developers in Europe at competitive market rates, being the first African-based platform to do so ahead of its US-based Nigerian founded competitor Andela. The Addis ...
With global organizations such as Dell, Microsoft, Expedia accepting bitcoin and other blockchain-based cryptocurrencies such Ethereum, ZCash among others, trade and mining of cryptocurrencies is becoming an everyday activity around the world. However, in Africa digital mining of cryptocurrencies is not a mainstream activity and ponzi schemes like OneCoin are ...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is visiting Nigeria this week on his first trip to Africa, using his time in the country to visit the Yaba technology hub in Lagos, meet with developers and partners, and explore Nollywood. Zuckerberg is in Nigeria to listen and learn and take ideas back ...
Why can't Women stay the course in the tech industry? is a common question most people have asked themselves at one point or another. Wambui Kinya, chief strategy officer, Andela and a woman in the tech industry herself tries to answer this question. https://youtu.be/Qs-ywYjUhsc
Jeremy Johnson, CEO AndelaImage credits:YouTube Jeremy Johnson, Co-founder and CEO, Andela has been named among the 32 top tech people to watch in New York, where he and his co-founders started the knowledge sharing startup. With students in Nigeria and Kenya, Andela finds and trains African software developers ...
There are few women in tech in Africa and globally, with reports blaming education for the imbalance. According to a report women obtain 24 percent of all science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degrees. And only 20 percent of them obtain computer science and engineering degrees. Hours after celebrating International ...
Just a day after it announced it had partnered with CodeMentor, Andela today had another first by partnering with Big Data University, an IBM initiative to spread big data literacy to Africa. “Our mission at Big Data University is to democratize access to practical skills for working with data. To ...
TechStars and YC-backed Codementor, a marketplace for on-demand one-to-one programming help and long-term mentorship from expert software developers has partnered with Andela, to mentor developers across Africa. This deal will enable Andela team up its four-year Technical Leadership Program graduates entry-level developers will be paired with a seasoned Codementor programmer ...
Founded on the idea that brilliance is evenly distributed around the world but opportunity is not, Andela, the most selective technology training program in Africa, today announced a Series A funding round. Led by Spark Capital, the funding will help meet the growing demand for Andela’s world-class remote software developers ...
Andela, has partnered with Stack Overflow in a move to take education beyond borders creating impact across the continent just as they have done on the web. The deal will see six of Stack Overflow’s developers based around the world are provide one-on-one mentorship to six new Andela developers in ...
Yeah, you heard it right! Andela has just recorded that it's Nairobi applications have surpassed over 1,000 just a week after they started accepting applications in the country. Founded by Jeremy Johnson, Christina Sass, and Iyinoluwa “E” Aboyeji and Ian Carnevale, Andela aims to give brilliant young people in Africa ...
The Andela Fellowship for developers is on; presenting a 4-year, paid opportunity to master the craft of professional software development while working remotely for leading technology companies around the globe. Based on the quantity and quality of applications, successful applicants may be invited to participate in a free, two-week-long Boot ...
