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Code the Future – Cabo Verde Rising — SheCode.ai's National AI and Coding Programme for Secondary School Girls

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SheCode.ai's Code the Future - Cabo Verde Rising, endorsed by Cabo Verde's Ministry of Digital Economy in Sept. 2025, aims to train 500+ secondary-school girls on three islands in coding, AI and digital innovation, backed by Portuguese toolkits and teacher training.

500 students (planned)
Target number of secondary-school girls to be trained (not yet delivered) (2025-2026 (target))
3 islands (planned)
Islands targeted for programme delivery (2025-2026 (target))
Code the Future – Cabo Verde Rising — SheCode.ai's National AI and Coding Programme for Secondary School Girls

Details

Promoter
SheCode.ai / Cabo Verde Ministry of Digital Economy
Period
2025-2026
Keywords
education, edtech, nonprofit, gender equity, digital economy

Context

SheCode.ai, a women-led coding-education non-profit, and its partner Kryterion Limited launched the 'Digital Africa Corridor' at a high-level roundtable in Abuja on 1 September 2025. As part of it, Cabo Verde's Ministry of Digital Economy formally endorsed SheCode.ai's flagship programme, Code the Future - Cabo Verde Rising.

Objectives

To train more than 500 secondary-school girls across three of Cabo Verde's islands in coding, artificial intelligence and digital-innovation skills, supported by Portuguese-language STEM toolkits, teacher training for the schools involved, and a national youth showcase to close out the cohort.

Activities

Cabo Verde's Secretary of State for Digital Economy, Pedro Nuno Alves Fernandes Lopes, framed the endorsement as proof that African nations can lead their own digital future. A follow-up Nigeria-Cabo Verde Business and Innovation Mission to Praia was scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2025 to broaden the partnership into other sectors.

Conclusions

As of the endorsement, this is a launch commitment rather than a completed rollout: no student enrolment, completion or learning-outcome data has yet been published, and the announcement frames the initiative primarily in diplomatic and economic-partnership terms rather than as an evaluated education intervention.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
SheCode.ai delivery team (women-led coding-education non-profit), Kryterion Limited as programme partner, Local teachers in the three participating islands' schools receiving training to deliver the curriculum

Conditions for success

  • Formal government endorsement from Cabo Verde's Ministry of Digital Economy
  • Portuguese-language STEM toolkits adapted to the local teaching language
  • Teacher training preceding student delivery
  • A national youth showcase event to close out and demonstrate the cohort's work

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