Nonprofit Bootcamps: Coding Education Develops Economies
We have partnered with La Juventud del Mañana to teach computer coding skills to high school students in Ecuador, with a focus on female empowerment.
Investment in technology education helped turn India into one of the fastest-growing developing countries in the world. In the 1980s, India received significant foreign investments into its technology industry, which helped its citizens achieve two essential economic development goals.
The first purpose was to give residents of India access to the technology education that they need to succeed in 21st-century jobs. The second objective was even more crucial: Supply paying jobs in exchange for those skills. After all, the newly trained talent needs income opportunities as a complement to the education to benefit from the newly acquired expertise.
Today, India is still galvanizing its economy through technology outsourcing.
In Ecuador, not all youth have the chance to go to college. When they do, there are frequently fewer career opportunities available upon graduation than peers in more developed nations. That is why we have partnered with La Juventud del Mañana to teach computer coding skills to high school students in Ecuador.
With the advent of computer coding boot camps and the internet, youth all over the world have access to quality education and career opportunities. Código Ecuador aims to teach Ecuadorian high school students how to leverage these resources to begin fulfilling careers in technology.
More often, companies are now throwing out old requirements of the traditional college degree and are currently looking for employees with the technology skills they need to incorporate artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science into their business operations.
The scarce labor supply in technology is an excellent opportunity for Ecuadorian youth to learn highly in-demand skills without the high cost of a college education. The demand for coding skills is projected to grow 50% faster than the rest of the job market. Recruiters now demand programming talent more than any other type of employee.
Because low-income females typically have fewer options than men, we want to focus our resources on empowering Ecuadorian women to use the internet to become tomorrow’s technology entrepreneurs.
By teaching them how to code and how to use the internet to start meaningful businesses online, we believe that Ecuador can achieve higher economic growth while preserving its current culture.
