SAP Africa Begins Code Week in Nigeria

SAP Africa has commenced its pilot phase project for the training of secondary school students and their teachers in software coding, beginning with Ojodu Grammar School in Lagos. Africa Code Week is being driven by SAP along with partners such as Simplon from France, the Galway Education Centre from Ireland and the Cape Town Science Centre. Its purpose is to empower youth, teachers and parents with the language of software programming using a freely available scratch system. According to the President of SAP Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Mr. Franck Cohen, Ojodu Grammar School is part of the pilot project, with an initial plan to cover 11,000 secondary schools in Nigeria. The vision of SAP, according to Cohen, is to train Nigerians on relevant technology skills and equip them with skills that will make them become employers of labour. He also added that 100 children between the ages of 8 and 11 years will be taught software coding skills in a fun-filled, hands-on workshop, facilitated by SAP in primary schools, while an estimated 20,000 students ranging between the ages of 8 to 24 years from various schools will be participating in software coding workshops in South Africa, Angola, Cameroon, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo and Tunisia. The principal of the school,  Mrs. Victoria Kolawole, thanked SAP Africa for the initiative and for extending it to Africa, beginning from her school. She said the initiative would further expose the students and teachers to new technology skills.       Source: ThisDay Newspaper Photo Credit: openideo.com

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This article was first published on 3rd July 2015

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