SPONSORED | The lab provides previously disadvantaged youth with skills in software development and digital social innovation
The lab provides previously disadvantaged youth with skills in software development and digital social innovationSamsung SA and UWC officially opened the Samsung Future-Innovation Lab on campus in March 2020. Picture: SUPPLIED/SAMSUNG
Samsung SA in partnership with UWC launched the web and mobile software development training programme which focuses on building digital innovation skills for unemployed youth in SA. Aligned with Samsung’s global mission, “Enabling People”, aimed at helping people discover and develop their full potential, the lab will empower deserving, previously disadvantaged young people.
The first cohort of the UWC software developers will showcase their learning by solving social problems through digital innovation. During the course, there have been many success stories, including that of Sibusiso Labi from the Western Cape. At 18, he found a job as a packer at a supermarket distribution centre. A year later he resigned to pursue his dream of becoming a web developer. He has been recognised as the top student in the Samsung Future-Innovation Lab.
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