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Gaza Sky Geeks
Company typeNon-Profit Organization
Founded2011; 14 years ago (2011)
FounderAndy Dwonch, Iliana Montauk
HeadquartersGaza Strip, Palestine
Key peopleRyan Sturgill (Director)
ProductsTraining Programs, Start-ups Accelators, co-working space
Number of employees20
ParentMercy Corps
Websitegazaskygeeks.com

Gaza Sky Geeks is the first and only tech hub in Gaza, a program of Mercy Corps aiming to create a community of developers, freelancers and tech enthusiasts in hope of creating more opportunities for the people of Gaza. The non-profit organization was launched with support from Google in 2011, but has since then received the backing of other Silicon Valley big names such as Microsoft and also of international donors.

Due to the Blockade of the Gaza Strip, the unemployment in the Strip is one of the highest in the world at 80%.

A major obstacle for Palestinian freelancers is handling online payments as PayPal cannot be used by Palestinians. In March 2018, MasterCard to research e-payment solutions for Palestinians.

Programs

Gaza Sky Geeks runs three main programs.

Code Academy

Is a fullstack bootcamp program runs by a partnership with Founder and Coders, Founders and Coders is a free bootcamp program based in London, The program typically runs for 4 months of which the first 8 weeks is focused on training of new topics including but not incluise to API, testing, NodeJS. the rest of the weeks the studetns do projcets.

GeeXeleator

Is a startups accelators program runs for 16 weeks, before

Freelace Aacdemy

A program to teah

Geek Labs

Is the expansion plan of Gaza Sky Geeks mainly to to Suth Gaza Khanyounes, and to the west-bank.

Challenges

One of the main challenges facing

References

  1. ^ Alfarra, Jehan (13 April 2016). "Gaza Sky Geeks take flight in London". Middle East Monitor.
  2. "About Us - Gaza Sky Geeks". Gaza Sky Geeks. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  3. Knell, Yolande (1 October 2018). "Gaza: Coding in a conflict zone". BBC News.
  4. "Why does PayPal discriminate against Palestinians?". The Electronic Intifada. 30 May 2017.
  5. "MasterCard teams up with GSG to Overcome Online Payment Hurdles". Gaza Sky Geeks. 1 March 2018.

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