SAP SE will train more than 150 000 youth in 30 African countries this year to foster digital literacy and equip the continent’s rising generation with job-relevant digital skills.

SAP’s Africa Code Week 2016 will run from 15-23 October 2016, with thousands of free coding workshops and online trainings offered to children and youth aged 8 to 24.

Jean Philbert Nsengimana, Rwanda’s Minister of Youth and ICT, states that, “Today literacy should go beyond just knowing how to read and write, even beyond digital literacy – knowing how to use computers. Basic literacy for the next generation should be about coding.”

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