How Ingressive For Good is impacting African tech ecosystem

In the last 3 months, Ingressive for Good, a non-profit organisation equipping young Africans in need with tech skills to help them impact and contribute to the development of Africa, socially and economically, has aided the training of over 20,000 African youth, built a community of over 17,000 youths, provided tech tools and resources for over 10,000, and placed over 100 in jobs.

Two key indicators of a country’s GDP are the economic power of citizens and the percentage of gainfully employed youth. A report by the United Nations revealed that Africa has the largest concentration of young people in the world. However, 30 percent of African youth are unemployed, and Ingressive for Good (I4G) is looking to change that with their mission to increase the earning power of African youths through technical training, job placement, and community.

According to a report from the World Bank’s IFC and Google, Africa is on course to add $180 billion or 5.2 percent of aggregate GDP by 2025 thanks to the rapid growth of its internet economy (IGDP) and the key to growing that internet economy will be the tech talents that build the products on which it runs. In a report by Payscale, a tech employee earns 2x more salary than a peer in a non-tech role. However, access to tech, tech training, and resources are expensive. This series of discoveries has led Ingressive For Good (I4G) to commit to training 1,000,000 African youths in need and placing the high flyers in jobs.

To test the viability of the I4G program, they launched a pilot phase (July 1, 2020 - October 1, 2020) to train 5000 people, deploy $4000 in scholarships and build a network of 10,000 African youths passionate about technology.

During these pilot phase, I4G partnered with Coursera, Facebook, Datacamp, HNG, Semicolon, Tekedia, CareerBuddy, Findworka, Live Your Dreams, Covenant University, Enye, Babcock University, Studentbuild, Bankole Williams, and so many amazing organizations to reach the Africans in need and provide training, scholarships, job placements.

“The I4G community collectively has the strategy, the network, and most importantly, the passion to change Africa.” Sean Burrowes, the COO and co-founder of Ingressive for Good said. “The more our community grows, the less I4G feels like a charitable foundation. It feels more like a Pan-african talent development revolution, powered by Africa’s tech-enabled youth.”