- The Didier Drogba Foundation and 01Talent Africa signed a strategic partnership in Abidjan to meet the challenges of the continent’s digital transformation through an inclusive and sustainable approach to the development of human capital.
- The Didier Drogba Foundation reaffirms its mission of promoting the fundamental right to education for all without distinction and more specifically for the most vulnerable populations (unemployed young people, women and girls, migrants, etc.)
- 01Talent Africa, co-founded by Nicolas Sadirac and Deror Sultan, is committed to the identification, development and professional support of more than 1 million digital talents in Africa by setting up inclusive business schools (“Zone01”) without any financial or academic barrier, real catalysts and accelerators of opportunities for youth and innovation.
- Didier Drogba and his foundation become international ambassadors of 01Talent
- Starting in the fall of 2021, in partnership with the organization United Cities and Local Governments of Africa, an ambitious pan-African campaign will be launched to identify and reveal the digital talents and entrepreneurs of tomorrow, drivers of the continental tech ecosystem.
The Didier Drogba Foundation and 01Talent Africa have formalized the signing of a strategic partnership to carry out actions to transform the educational landscape and the African tech ecosystem.
The values of sporting success and surpassing oneself to achieve a level of excellence which are carried by Didier Drogba and his Foundation, are found perfectly in the educational model promoted by 01Talent Africa.
It is because the Didier Drogba Foundation and 01Talent Africa share this vision of a fairer, more inclusive world in which diversity is a resource that they have chosen to build this partnership.
By this agreement, the legend of African football, Didier Drogba and his foundation become international ambassadors of 01Talent co-founded by Nicolas Sadirac and Deror Sultan.
This commitment is perfectly in line with the primary mission of the Didier Drogba Foundation, which is to support local, sub-regional and continental economic development initiatives and to contribute to improving the living conditions of populations in general but more specifically of people. vulnerable populations.
01Talent Africa, like a football club, aims to identify, train and connect to the professional world 1 million young talents in the next 10 years, by setting up more than 100 Intelligence Zones Collective (“Zone01”), real Talent accelerators which include in particular:
- An institution for learning coding, computer engineering and innovation, without a teacher, without courses, without tuition fees and without academic prerequisites, following the pedagogy invented by Nicolas Sadirac who has already trained today more than 100,000 very high-level collaborative talents
- A vocational training zone intended to support the digital transformation of businesses and local authorities via “reskilling” & “upskilling” programs
- A Talent Agency that will support the careers of “01Talent” from coding learning areas with companies in the partner ecosystem
The continent’s first Zone01 will be inaugurated in Praia, Cape Verde in September 2021 and will host 300 young talents from Cape Verde and 26 other African partner countries.
These talents will be selected on the basis of their potential and motivation and then follow a 01Edu peer-to-peer educational course, training in 2 years in the professions of code and digital innovation
The Didier Drogba Foundation and 01Talent Africa are committed in partnership with the umbrella organization of African local governments UCLG Africa, to support the growth of the digital economy through the development of exceptional entrepreneurial skills.
Our initiative makes it possible to profoundly change the methods of identifying talent and digital education in Africa, by detecting local talents, especially among vulnerable populations often neglected by traditional education systems which do not sufficiently reduce social disparities.
For young people and companies alike, we are creating new perspectives and future ambitions to meet the growing needs of talent in the labor market in the midst of the post-Covid digital revolution.
From the fall of 2021, the partners will jointly launch an ambitious pan-African campaign to identify and reveal the digital talents of tomorrow, drivers of the continental tech ecosystem.
The objective is to provide each African country with a cognitive testing platform accessible from any mobile phone or computer (private or public).
The identification of candidates will be done through online tests, accessible to all and requiring no prior computer knowledge. In the form of games, these tests make it possible to identify and measure the cognitive skills, creativity, and motivation of candidates in a perfectly meritocratic way, and thus to identify the best digital talents who could not have been spotted by traditional systems. .
Each participating country and city will thus be able to identify its best candidates who will join the first Zone 01 program in Praia, Cape Verde.
The Didier Drogba Foundation will naturally support the various talent recruitment campaigns for 01Talent’s Collective Intelligence Zones around the world, such as 01Founders in Great Britain for example.
