Microsoft and Zindi signed a Mou to equip 10 000 Africans with data science and artificial intelligence skills. (William Brederode/News24).
Fast-growing South African startup Zindi is recruiting over 1 000 people each month onto its AI and data science training platform, as demand for future-focused digital skills is skyrocketing on the continent.
Celina Lee, Zindi’s co-founder and CEO, explained that the company made use of a gamified, project-orientated approach to train people across the continent in data science skills.
Lee said that the company was started in 2018 as a passion project to build up data science skills in Africa, and has ballooned as demand for future-focused digital skills on the continent has soared.
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