African Blockchain Alliance in partnership with ConsenSys Academy is inviting application for the 2nd cohort of the Africa Blockchain Developer Program.
The three-month Africa Blockchain Program aims to give African developers the opportunity to gain the skills necessary to become industry-ready blockchain developers that can add significant value to their organisations, businesses, or make them marketable to top blockchain companies across the globe.
In addition, the initiative equips developers with the tools they need to use blockchain to solve some of the pressing problems in Africa and the world.
The Alliance is looking to increase the number of developers, as well as a country representation within the next cohort.
To this end, the alliance will award scholarships to a number of developers, thanks to a $10 000 grant from ConsenSys Grants. The funding was announced in May during the 2019 Ethereal Summit in New York.
The alliance said the programme — which is mostly delivered online with in-person sessions in select cities — gives developers in Africa access to ConsenSys Academy’s developer course at a “significantly discounted rate”.
The program currently costs developers in Africa $450, this while a similar ConsenSys Academy online course goes for $985.
Developers on the course will have access to dedicated mentors who will have weekly office hours with them for one to two hours per week and answer their questions daily.
In addition, developers will also have unlimited access to an online forum with over 2000 developers who are all current and past developers trained by Consensys Academy.
On successful completion of the program, graduates will be issued certificates on the Ethereum blockchain and given the opportunity to work on blockchain projects in Africa and around the world.
Click here to apply and for more details about the program, click here.
