Kola Aina - Serial Entrepreneur and Founder of Ventures Platform - wrote a vision essay on the importance of upskilling the youth especially in tech and how Ventures Platform's latest initiative - Digital Explorers - is contributing to the quest of moving Nigeria from an oil-dependent economy to a digital economy. This presentation tells the story using visuals.
You can find the essay on medium here: http://bit.ly/DEbyKolaAina
5. Percentage of organizations that acknowledge that demand for a hard digital skill is high in their organization today and
percentage of employees who are proficient in that hard digital skill
Source: Capgemini Digital Transformation Institute survey, June–July 2017, N=501 employers; N=753 employees; ranked by employer demand.
6. Andela Case Study
180M
Strong Network of Developers
In languages such as Ruby on Rails,
Javascript, Python, Ruby, and React Native
5 Active Recruitment Cities
Lagos, Nairobi, Kampala, Kigali,
Accra, and Cairo.
Major Global Clients
Global partners including Cloudflare,
Percolate, and InVision.
In venture Funding
7. “Nigeria is the fourth
fastest growing developer
community on GitHub”
-GitHub October 2018
8. “6 out of 7 of the African Startups in Winter
Class of 2019 are in fact Nigerian”
