Leading telecom company, Safaricom has partnered with Kodris, a software company, to teach customers coding via M-Pesa.
Safaricom in its continued attempt to grow the technology side of the company has allowed customers to buy tokens for coding lessons on the mobile operator’s financial service platform M-Pesa.
But how does it work? Once customers successfully purchase a token, they’ll gain access to the coding lessons which will run for a year on their kid’s tablets, laptops, and desktop computers. Safaricom will be working with Kodris to make their new enterprise a success.
According to Safaricom’s CEO, Peter Ndegwa, “We are excited to partner with Kodris to expand access to learning solutions to more than 30 million M-Pesa customers who can now conveniently access the Kodris Mini App through our M-Pesa Super App”.
The Business Daily says that the deal between both companies was after the coding curriculum got approved by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, as the government is big on digital literacy for learners.
Even Kodris Africa CEO, Mugumo Munene believes that the partnership will encourage digital literacy in Kenya.
According to him, “the skills that students will learn will be relevant today and tomorrow and allow them to explore and unleash their creativity and innovativeness in a highly digitized and computerized world which offers growth opportunities”.
However, this massive step towards digital literacy isn’t limited to Kenya; the software company has decided to offer the syllabus to 49 other countries.
For those unfamiliar with coding or computer programming: it’s our way of commanding computers. It involves writing a set of instructions (code) that tells a computer what you want it to do.
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