The Power Learn Project Africa (PLP) has graduated 9,000 young software developers, strengthening the continent’s fast-growing tech workforce and pushing its total number of trained learners past 20,000. The milestone aligns with the close of a regional hackathon co-hosted with UN Women East and Southern Africa, spotlighting both digital skilling and gender-safe innovation.
The programme’s latest cohort reflects PLP’s expanding footprint across the continent, where demand for entry-level developers continues to surge. The partnership with UN Women has placed strong emphasis on creating safer digital ecosystems for women and girls, from responsible AI development to gender-sensitive product design.
The hackathon drew participants from multiple countries, challenging teams to build solutions that tackle social challenges while embedding safeguards against gender-based online harms. Organisers say the collaboration demonstrates how tech training and social protection frameworks can evolve together.
As Africa’s tech sector attracts global interest, the addition of thousands of newly trained developers signals growing capacity and a widening pipeline of talent equipped to innovate responsibly.
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