Douglas Mbiandou, the entrepreneur who wants to train 10,000 coders in Africa
Douglas Mbiandou, a 41-year-old Cameroonian entrepreneur, wants to train 10,000 coders in Africa. Since 2005, its learning center, OBJIS, has already contributed to the continuous training of more than 3,000 people in France.
Forming “10,000 coders” in Africa, is one of Douglas Mbiandou’s biggest projects, whose objective is to make the African continent the first developer supplier in the world, taking advantage of the “demographic dividend” (2 billion inhabitants 2050).
Douglas was born in Yaoundé and arrived in France at the age of 7, where he attended INSA LYON (school in Lyon). After his studies, he worked for 5 years for a multinational of the software sector as an engineer Studies and Development. He subsequently decided to start his own company, and created Objis, a training company at the service of the development of the African continent.
Objis
The website objis.com is visited by half a million visitors each year, who benefit from open access tutorials. The company has an annual turnover of nearly 500,000 euros, a network of 20 independent professional trainers, and an African team of 8 people.
Among its 250 clients are companies such as THALES, AXA, IBM, BNP PARIBAS, HSBC, EDF and the French National Assembly. In Africa, Objis has as clients the BCEAO, ECOBANK, Customs of Mali and Benin and more recently the National Social Security Fund (CNSS) of Togo.
Objis serving young Africans
Douglas wants to have a positive impact on the lives of young people in Africa by bringing operational knowledge to them in a digital sector. Objis currently trains the top 100 beneficiaries of the 10000 Encoders project, and finds the necessary funding for the rest of the program.
The 10000coder program
“Funded to date by the Objis training center, the 10000codeurs program currently deployed in Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon provides its beneficiaries with a qualification that is highly sought after by the global software industry: Developer Designer Java Web Mobile applications.”
The program encourages beneficiaries to create software that meets real and local needs. For an overview of the 10000coders program, see: the 10000coders beneficiary handbook
Source: Forbes Afrique
