BALA Comfort. Age: 18, Miss.Africa Seed Fund Beneficiary Q1: Give us a general experience with Miss Africa sponsored AboCoders training and how your digital skills were enhanced Comfort: Through the help of Miss.Africa Sponsored AboCoders Training, I can now operate a computer, I can code and use Microsoft excel for calculation. Before I came to AboCoders, I didn’t know anything…
Ms. Mercy Chege spoke to Miss.Africa Voices about her mobile coding training experience at Miss.Africa. She was among the 25 women selected for a fully funded training. 1.Give us a general experience with Miss.Africa sponsored, eMobilis training basing a bias on women in tech in Kenya & how your digital skills were enhanced. The experiences with both Miss. Africa and…
ABUBAKAR Zuwaira Age 20 Question 1- Give a general experience with Miss.Africa sponsored AboCoders training and how your digital skills were enhanced Zuwaira: Well, Formally I wasn’t a computer literate person but since I started attending the AboCoders training, I have learnt a lot. Now I know about computers, its uses and its benefits. I can code now! Thanks to AboCoders.…
Linda Wawira narrates to the Miss.africa voices about her internship experience at DotConnectAfrica Trust. Working at DCA was a challenging and exciting experience. The emphasis on meticulous research and international standards of work motivated me to be the best I could be. During my tenure, I was able to pick up handy skills such as content scheduling, archiving and reporting.…
”The whole experience was phenomenal & given the same chance again, I would take it wholeheartedly”- Juliet
Ms. Juliet Awuor recounts how the Miss.Africa Seed Fund Sponsorship enabled her attain one of her dream and greatest goal in her ICT career. (a.) General experience with Miss.Africa sponsored, eMobilis training basing a bias on women in tech in Kenya & how your digital skills were enhanced. The whole experience was phenomenal and given the same chance again I…
Twenty Five (25) women selected from over three hundred applicants benefited directly by receiving 3 months training at eMobilis which was selected DCA Trust’s partner. eMobilis emerged as the grand prize winner of the inaugural Miss.Africa Seed Fund. The two other winners were a Madagascar based Tech start-up MDG/Pyladies Antananarivo and Pycon Cameroon, a start up that teaches computer coding…
“We are doing it again” #STEM4girls NAIROBI, Kenya – July 21, 2016 — In a #STEM4girls Pan-African campaign, the Miss.Africa program is mobilizing a Round II Seed Fund for Tech initiatives in Africa that will avail small grants to support women and girls in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields to launch or expand their own initiatives that…
March 15, 2016, Mauritius Africa: The Miss. Africa Initiative, a pan-african trust program of DotConnectAfrica (DCA) announces its winner of the Miss.Africa 2015 USD 5000 Seed Fund as eMobilis. DCA Trust received an overwhelming number of applications of over 90 applicants from more than 18 Countries in Africa across the African continent to apply for the Miss.Africa Seed Fund. In…