Good practice Imported

The Code To Change

Netherlands · Amsterdam · National · See the Netherlands profile

The mission of The Code To Change is to achieve gender equality and economic empowerment of women through digital inclusion. We are proud to share that our last year’s digital skills bootcamp graduates and mentees have since started new tech projects; they are building new apps a

500

Women technologists in community

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: The Code To Change — website
Type: Policy
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Migrants
People reached: 300
Period: 2015-02-10
Region (NUTS): NL32
Keywords: women, technology, digital skills, employment, gender divide

Context

The Code to Change, based in Amsterdam, runs a 2-day digital-skills bootcamp followed by 5 months of online mentoring for professional women — including career switchers and people of refugee/migrant background — to reintegrate into technology roles, replicating a model first run in Argentina and Afghanistan.

Results

The organisation reports a community of close to 500 women technologists, with graduates going on to launch tech projects and pursue new employment opportunities.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

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.

MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
Information source — accessed 2026-06-14

Quality score: 76/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 33% in this catalogue (610 scored practices)

Scores cluster high, so position within the catalogue is often more telling than the number alone.

Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level4/5

How novel the approach is, from the source innovation rating (graded 0–5).

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Whether the initiative is still ongoing rather than ended.

Evaluation evidence0/1

Whether a substantive evaluation of the initiative exists.

Demonstrated reach1/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning1/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

Cite this

Evidoria. The Code To Change. Persistent ID: f04940bf-9e96-4c6b-b22f-29e69c95b693.

Export as decision brief (PDF)

Similar practices you may find useful

★ 32

Digital Skills Partnership

United Kingdom

The aim of the DSP is to improve digital capability across the whole skills spectrum - from the essential skills …

★ 76

Cisco Networking Academy

United Kingdom

AIMS: NetAcad aims to equip students with applied digital skills, so that they can enter the job market ready to …

★ 72

Creative Coding School

Germany

The "Creative Coding School" seeks to engage refugees and other socially disadvantaged people in learning how to create digital products. …

★ 72

ReDI School of Digital Integration

Germany

AIM: The aim is to provide our students with valuable digital skills and a strong network of tech leaders, students …