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Ernestina Edem Appiah
Ernestina Edem Appiah (born c 1977) is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur. She founded the Ghana Code Club as an after-school program to teach children how to write computer programs. In 2015, she was named to the "100 Women (BBC), BBC 100 Most Inspirational Women" list for her work to promote computing in Ghana. Biography Appiah's passion for computing began when she was employed as a secretary for a local information technology company. Inspired by the work of her colleagues, but earning less than 10% of their salary as a secretary, she learned how to code in HTML on her own, teaching herself to build websites. She transferred her IT skills into a virtual assistance business, which would become her first company. Ghana Code Club In 2007, she founded her first social enterprise, Healthy Career Initiative as a means of sharing and mentoring girls in ICT. This gave rise to the foundations of the Ghana Code Club established in the same year. Ghana Code Club is a non governmental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghana Code Club
The Ghana Code Club is an After-school activity, after-school programme in Ghana that teaches children computer programming skills. The programme was founded by Ernestina Edem Appiah, and the programme is organized in various schools by Healthy Career Initiative, a nonprofit organisation in Ghana. Healthy Career Initiative was also founded by Appiah, in 2007. Ghana Code Club is a digital fun club that is being organized in schools in Ghana for children between the ages of 8–17. It is an after-school Extracurricular activity, extracurricular programme. As of January 2016 in Ghana, the present information communications technology curriculum in Ghana does not include learning activities for technology. The club encourages children to attain modern skills in computer technology to help them with future careers. Some of the activities include learning how to create websites, animations and video games. In January 2016, the programme began operations in five schools, and the organisat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
