How Social Coding Is Helping Rural Communities Leverage Technology. Social Coding is a registered non-profit company that helps rural communities leverage technology for a better future, by providing digital skills training programs for high school learners, as well as small business owners. It was founded in 2016 by Thembiso Lucil Magajana, who also serves as the company’s CEO. The company also provides scholarships, mentorship, and empowerment to young adults in low-income communities to help them leverage technology for a better future. This is done by hosting workshops in villages were the company finds, develops and helps its partners hire rural tech talent. Through their Tech-based digital training and career programs, the company can help these stakeholders to use their CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) to empower smart & sustainable solutions created and driven by rural talent.
The company is looking to empower youth between the ages of 14 – 25 from rural communities, by giving them digital skills that they can leverage for new opportunities. In order to do the work they do, they really depend on a network of incredible people that volunteer their time and effort to help them achieve their goal of bringing technology to a million rural households by 2045.
The world of work today is dynamic and constantly evolving into new and different modes, requiring skills and knowledge sets that may not yet exist. This changing environment requires young people to be creative, explore their options, and to develop a wide array of transferable skills, skills that are more and more finding their foundation rooted in Science and Technology.
It creates long-lasting, mutually beneficial relationships for their corporate partners and delivers sustainable impact in communities that have traditionally been on the fringes of technological developments. So far the company has 5355 beneficiaries from Gauteng and Limpopo engaged in digital training activities. “Our goal by 2030 is to achieve full and productive employment and decent work for 100 000 women and men, including youth and persons with disabilities; by providing digital training workshops that people with not only coding skills but small businesses with low-tech resources.” said the company in a statement on Twitter.
