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Founded in 2011 by Mercy Corps and Google, Gaza Sky Geeks trained thousands of coders a year and helped nearly 30 startups raise funding, until its Gaza offices and feeder universities were destroyed in the 2023-24 war, forcing a fragile rebuild.
Gaza Sky Geeks (GSG) began in 2011 as the Arab Developer Network Initiative, launched by Mercy Corps with a $900,000 seed grant from Google.org, growing into Gaza's leading tech hub and startup accelerator, with a second site opened in Hebron, West Bank, in 2018.
The programme ran a six-month Code Academy bootcamp (about 16 students per cohort, roughly half female), a GeeXelerator startup accelerator (34 teams in 2018) and freelancer training, hosting up to 140 people a day.
By 2022, roughly 5,000 coders and developers had graduated across Gaza and the West Bank. The organisation helped nearly 30 startups secure funding, created more than 100 jobs, generated $91,000 in programme revenue, and freelance-training graduates collectively earned over $400,000.
The October 2023 war devastated Gaza's tech ecosystem: the Mercy Corps building housing GSG was left 'standing but blown out', fibre infrastructure was destroyed, and all three Gaza universities producing its computer-science graduates were levelled. As of 2025, GSG is described as rebuilding, but its continuity remains fragile and unproven.
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