evidoria

← Back to browse

Good practice Imported

Connected African Girls Coding Camp — Robotics, IoT & AI Bootcamp in Niamey, Niger

Niger · Niamey · See the Niger profile · See the Niamey profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 58% 47/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

The 7th AGCCI coding camp, an eight-day bootcamp at Niger's Higher School of Telecommunications in Niamey, trained 108 young women (17–25) in robotics, IoT/AI, web development and 3D printing; ~4,500 more joined virtually, and 7 of 23 innovation-fair prototypes won awards.

108
In-person participants (Mar 2023)
25000+
Cumulative trainees, first six editions
Connected African Girls Coding Camp — Robotics, IoT & AI Bootcamp in Niamey, Niger

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
UN Economic Commission for Africa (West Africa Sub-Regional Office), UN Women, ITU & Government of Niger (Ministry of Posts and New Information Technologies)
Period
February–March 2023 (concluded 1 March 2023)
Keywords
girls education, AI literacy, robotics, digital skills, gender equality

Context

The 7th edition of the AGCCI Connected African Girls Coding Camp concluded 1 March 2023 in Niamey, Niger, an eight-day bootcamp for 108 young women aged 17-25 in person plus ~4,500 more participating virtually, covering robotics, IoT/AI, Scratch, web development and 3D printing.

Results

The bootcamp closed with an innovation fair where participants presented 23 prototypes; a judging panel selected 7 projects and 33 trainees for awards. AGCCI organisers report more than 25,000 trainees across the initiative's first six editions.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
UNECA West Africa Sub-Regional Office, UN Women and ITU programme staff

Conditions for success

  • multi-agency coordination
  • hybrid in-person/remote delivery

Commonly funded by

Philanthropic / foundation funding

Indicative funding routes for practices of this type — always check each programme's current calls and eligibility rules.

Do you run this practice? Claim it — verified implementers get a public contact pathway and can propose corrections.

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

Attachments

Similar practices you may find useful