{"id":211216,"date":"2017-11-16T11:34:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T09:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=211216"},"modified":"2017-11-16T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T09:34:13","slug":"telkom-to-invest-r250-million-into-coding-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/211216\/telkom-to-invest-r250-million-into-coding-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom to invest R250 million into coding fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom will invest R250 million over the next three years in a technology fund focussed on coding training for young people, said CEO Sipho Maseko.<\/p>\n<p>Maseko said they think of programming as a future 12th official language of South Africa. One in which fluency will be essential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do we make sure that everyone between the ages of 17 and 25 has the opportunity to learn how to code?\u201d said Maseko.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is only the beginning, and a focus on teenagers is also being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a world of the Internet of Things\u2026 where everything is connected, if you don\u2019t understand and speak that language [of coding], you will really be left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Telkom subsidiary BCX launched a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business-telecoms\/210098-bcx-launches-r60-million-partnership-with-wethinkcode.html\"><strong>R60-million partnership<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with WeThinkCode \u2013 a programme to educate software engineers.<\/p>\n<p>The funds will be used to expand WeThinkCode\u2019s Johannesburg office and open a new campus in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>WeThinkCode said it will have more than doubled the number of entry-level coders in South Africa by the end of 2018, thanks to this investment.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/210365\/goverment-has-found-potential-buyers-for-telkom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goverment has found potential buyers for Telkom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom will invest R250 million over the next three years in a technology fund focussed on coding training for young people, said CEO Sipho Maseko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":90052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-211216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211220,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211216\/revisions\/211220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}