AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Work
GOALS
Decent Work & Economic Growth
KEYWORDS
digitalization, employment, remote communities
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
Andela
WEBSITE
http://www.andela.co/about_us
Andela
a platform to give brilliant young people in Africa an on-ramp to the digital economy
Andela is a global talent accelerator that produces world-class remote developers and connects them with top employers. Andela finds the brightest young people in Africa and gives them the training and mentorship needed to thrive as full-time, remote developers for companies around the world. The company is backed by investors including Steve Case, Omidyar Network, Founder Collective, Rothenberg Ventures, Learn Capital, Melo7 Tech Partners, Chris Hughes and Susa Ventures. Andela has offices in North America and Africa. Andela developers are experienced in a variety of languages but specialize in the MEAN stack (Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node), a combination of front-end and back-end technologies that allow an individual developer to build scalable web and mobile apps.