Leapfrog e.V.

Leapfrog e.V.

Czarnikauer Str. 14, 10439 Berlin, Germany

ActivSpaces Buea

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Katrin Jullien

English

Leapfrog e.V. (a German based NGO) and ActivSpaces entered into a year long cooperation agreement to improve the ICT Entrepreneurial Capacity of some 210 youths in Buea (Heart of Silicon Mountain) by organizing a series core technical workshops and hackathons. The goal is to improve the ICT capacity of youths in Buea for better access to the job market. The main project objectives are:

• Improve the incomes of young developers in the startup community.
• Increase the share of female developers and entrepreneurs.

At the end of the project, we expect:

• At least 50% of trainees to be able to leverage the skills acquired to secure jobs or startup businesses/projects of their own.
• The women share or involvement in project activities within the startup community increased to at least 30%.

Leapfrog e.V. is an internationally working, non-governmental and non-profit organisation with its seat in Berlin Germany. Leapfrog aims at contributing to close the digital gap between the global South and the global North by technically and financially supporting IT education in the global South with a regional focus on East Africa. Leapfrog draft IT training programmes and support its implementation at non-profit, community based education centers, schools etc. Leapfrog supports young people in IT education to enable them take their lives into their own hands. That’s why the organization was named “Leapfrog” – a children’s game where one child jumps over the other. Leapfrog want to support young people to master the way on their own. In Kenya, Leapfrog has helped more than 250 young people obtain computer literacy. Leapfrog e.V. is member of Berliner Entwicklungspolitischer Ratschlag (BER), the regional network of NGOs in Berlin.