Teaching Youth to Code with UNESCO

Supported By:

UNESCO

Period:

OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2015

Location:

Cambodia

Summary

This initiative, implemented under the project supported by United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), trains students to learn to code and create mobile applications.

Mobile phone coverage is widespread throughout Cambodia including across rural and lowest income beneficiaries, making this channel particularly prone to support the promotion of social impact programs to beneficiaries. This initiative, implemented under the project supported by United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), trains students to learn to code and create mobile applications. As part of this program, InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia (iLab SEA) provided training and coaching on mobile phone application development to a selected group of youth. The training was based on a technology called Phonegap. The program incorporated social use cases to enable the direct application of youth participants’ knowledge to the development of social solutions for Cambodia.

Announcement

InSTEDD would like to express our sincere appreciation to all of our partners for the years of exceptional collaboration with the InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia and for your contribution to its success in providing important solutions for social good.

Our original vision when we established the iLabSEA was that it would ultimately become a separate entity, locally owned and operated, in a model that provides social benefit and fits within the local economy. After 13 years of service to our local community, we are thrilled to announce that InSTEDD has closed our iLabSEA and the team from the LabSEA has now established an independent social enterprise organization, Kawsang.

We are confident that Kawsang will continue to provide the excellent service that has become their leadership team’s standard.

We are excited to have you join us in celebrating the success of realizing our vision for the iLabSEA and we very much appreciate your participation in this success and continued collaboration with Kawsang.