Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2023 Winner

Africa Teen Geeks


Description

Africa Teen Geeks has taught 49000 children from disadvantaged communities with 23000 of those being girls. December 2018 it entered into a partnership with the department of basic education to develop and implement a coding and robotics curriculum to be taught from Grade R-9 to public schools which will reach 9 million learners every year. This means that every child in SA irrespective of gender, race & socioeconomic background will have access to tech education and create a pipeline of girls and people of color closing the gender gap and bring racial parity in tech.

Project website

https://www.africateengeeks.co.za/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C4. Capacity building
  • AL C8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content 2023
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 1: No poverty
  • Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

Coverage
  • South Africa

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2000

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • The poor
  • Remote and rural communities

Replicability

Yes it is being implemented in South African schools and there are plans to introduce the curriculum in Lesotho schools


Sustainability

Every child in SA irrespective of gender, race & socioeconomic background will have access to tech education and create a pipeline of girls and people of color closing the gender gap and bring racial parity in tech.


WSIS values promotion

• Disadvantaged and vulnerable groups • Indigenous peoples • Access to scientific knowledge• ICTs for all• Gender • Youth• Combating illiteracy • Life-long learning • Education/training


Entity name

Apodytes

Entity country—type

South Africa Civil Society

Entity website

https://www.africateengeeks.co.za/

Partners

Department of Basic Education City university of New York Facebook