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    Twitter Boss, Jack Dorsey Donates N2.35m to Nigerian Non-Profit Tech Talent Accelerator, DevCareer

    Oluwadamilare AkinpeluOluwadamilare Akinpelu
    February 25, 2020
    Twitter Boss, Jack Dorsey Donates N2.35m to Nigerian Non-Profit Tech Talent Accelerator, DevCareer

    Jack Dorsey, the founder of microblogging site Twitter, has donated £5,000 ($6,437) to support Nigeria’s nonprofit developer accelerator, DevCareer 2nd cohort.

    This was made known on Twitter by the startup’s founder, Sultan Akintunde, a Nigerian software developer and advocate.

    I know there's a quote about setting goals and smashing it. I just don't know what it is.

    A big thank you to @jack for supporting the growth of budding developers in Africa through @dev_careers

    The entire tech @twitter community is amazing 😢🙏🙌

    THANK YOU
    #Laptops4Developers pic.twitter.com/KmjaFWal0O

    — Name cannot be blank (@hackSultan) February 20, 2020

    Started in 2019, the accelerator was established by Sultan Akintunde when he rallied the developer community to raise N1 million ($2751) to buy laptops for 10 developers in its first cohort.

    The initiative which began just to buy the laptops evolved into an accelerator that partners with tech hubs to give developers a learning environment and mentors to learn from and become good developers.

    In fact, most of the participants in the 1st cohort have secured jobs in developer positions at various companies.

    Jack Dorsey Donates N2.35m to DevCareer

    Now for its second cohort, DevCareers plans to train 50 developers from Nigeria Ghana and Kenya over the next few months. With a GoFundMe page, the startup planned to raise £10,000.

    But now, it has received a massive boost of £5,000 (N2.35m) in donation, from the Twitter boss that has seen it cross its proposed mark. Now, the startup has raised about N8 million (£16,800), about 68% more than it projected to raise.

    All the developers now getting connected to foreign coys, please do us a favour and give it your best shot. You will be representing the entirety of the Nigerian Tech Space and your success/failure may affect more companies seeking out Nigerian developers.

    — Aniekan Offiong (@aniekanoffiong) May 31, 2018

    The Nigerian software developer space is growing fast. And this is resulting in more solutions being churned out, with some going on to make the big waves.

    And these efforts are beginning to reflect on the global scene, one that has seen the space play host in recent times to prominent techpreneurs – like Jack Dorsey of Twitter himself, Mark Zuckerburg of Facebook, Sundar Pichai of Alphabet inc (parent company of Google) among others.

    Startups like Andela, until recently, have always been instrumental in the growth. Others like Semicolon and Decagon are also major players, however unlike DevCareers, they are not offering free services.

    A donations like this one Jack Dorsey made to DevCareers is just another testament to the fact that the space is poised to disrupt the global tech ecosystem.

    I have to say I share @js_tut s enthusiasm for Nigerian Developers .

    I've had tons of CVs from you guys and damn you are hustling for those Dev jobs on a huuuugee scale, I expect big things in the Nigerian tech space in the future!

    — Jordan Cooper (@jordanjoecooper) January 13, 2020

    And according to Akintunde in an interview with Nairametrics, DevCareer will continue to play its part. “We have a sustainability plan but it can’t be related to business models like Andela and others. Short term and long term. We will continue to be a non-profit,” he said.


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