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Developer Training Fellowships

The Global Talent Acceleration Program Pays You to Learn to Code

— March 12, 2015 — Social Good
This talent acceleration program pays students in Africa to become software developers who work remotely. Andela offers paid training to young people and then find them remote jobs in developing in an effort to empower the disadvantaged with educational resources.

Students can apply for the four year paid fellowship at the Lagos, Nigeria Andela campus. The global talent accelerator involves a free two week boot camp and rigorous screening process. Not even 1% get in, but those who do receive full-time training that lasts three to five months (1000 hours). They learn about HTML, CSS, JavaScript and similar technologies, obtaining enough coding experience that they could work remotely for a global company. After four years in the talent acceleration program, they can stay on with Andela or apply elsewhere.
Trend Themes
1. Remote Software Development - Andela's talent acceleration program provides a disruptive innovation opportunity to enable remote software development by training students in Africa.
2. Paid Fellowship Programs - Andela's talent acceleration program offers a disruptive innovation opportunity to create paid fellowship programs promoting skill-building and job creation in disadvantaged areas.
3. Global Talent Acceleration - Andela's talent acceleration program provides a disruptive innovation opportunity to enable global talent acceleration by training underprivileged youth in Africa as software developers.
Industry Implications
1. Education - Andela's talent acceleration program provides a disruptive innovation opportunity in the education industry to offer free training and skill-building opportunities to underprivileged youth in Africa.
2. Technology - Andela's talent acceleration program provides a disruptive innovation opportunity in the technology industry by enabling the creation of a remote workforce of skilled software developers from underprivileged communities in Africa.
3. Employment - Andela's talent acceleration program provides a disruptive innovation opportunity in the employment industry to create job opportunities for talented individuals in Africa by connecting them with global companies looking for remote software developers.
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