Expanding opportunity, Empowering our future

Expanding opportunity,
Empowering our future

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Mission

TekSeries, a New York based N.G.O, was founded to contribute to preparing the next group of future-ready workers and innovators, amongst underserved segments of Nigeria’s teeming youth population.

The goal is to contribute to confronting perennial challenges of youth unemployment, re-skilling and expansion of access to jobs and entrepreneurial opportunity in myriad sectors of the local and virtual economy

Our core belief is that technology is largely a force for good and should where necessary, be deployed to disrupt business as usual. Our challenge to the young people we encounter, is to gain and maintain in demand skills for a rewarding career, but to also utilize said skills to create value-adding entities, that redress societal and economic inefficiencies around them.

Method

We have set out to achieve these goals by forming core industry partnerships and adopting a multi-pronged targeted approach to services. This includes free digital skills workshops for various ages and skill levels; Incubator program sponsorships; Annual Solution Prizes and Startup funding for viable products or services. Most recently, we have added Job Series, a platform dedicated to helping challenge Nigeria’s youth unemployment menace.

Africa needs digital skills across the economy,
not just the tech sector.

– World Economic Forum, Job Reset Summit 2020

Africa needs digital skills across the economy, not just the tech sector.

– World Economic Forum, Job Reset Summit 2020

Ecosystem Indicators

Services

Workshops
Sponsorships & Maker’s Prize
Job Series
Seed Investments

Workshops

Our services are modelled on live interactive, workshops, boot camps and webinars, with select local and foreign technology experts and enthusiasts. This includes free introductory workshops to basic digital skills in functional device use and internet communication; entry level coding for the elementary to secondary school segment, using junior building blocks.

Intermediate digital skills for Undergrads, Graduates and Workers on in demand coding series, Web design & Development, Mobile Application Design, CyberSecurity and Cloud Computing.

Upskilling Workshops for Developers, Workers, Practitioners; In continuing eduation programs, Certifications and Ideation.

Sponsorships & Maker’s Prize

We have established a program to sponsor promising, but underserved founders to some of the top business accelerator programs. In addition, TekSeries will be organizing an inaugural annual Maker’s Prize. This prize will reward the best Solution Innovation of the year, voted for on crowd sourced basis. This Prize is expected to be sponsored by a rotation of notable local and foreign corporations on an annual basis.

Job Series

Current data courtesy of Nigeria’s own National Bureau of Statistics, indicates the Youth unemployment rate in Nigeria is at all time high of 42.5%, with under employment at 21.5%. Clearly, this challenge deserves the urgency of now and can only be met by the collective contributions of the public and private sector.

In this regard, we have partnered with sister organizations to feature employers in need of interns to advanced level tech and related industry workers. The Internships are expected to be a gateway into building potentially long term industry and entrepreneurial careers.

Our new Job Series portal will afford employers the ability to post openings for free. Applicants can also create free profiles, post the CVs and Resumes, perform free job searches and attend periodic interview, assessment and CV workshops.

Seed Investments

Recognising the ever present funding challenge for startups, we continue to scout for impactful entities to invest in or syndicate funding for. We are resolved to make seed investments in stricly viable solutions and help kick start concepts we believe can evolve into mass appeal enterprises.

Workshops

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Our services are modelled on live interactive, workshops, boot camps and webinars, with select local and foreign technology experts and enthusiasts. This includes free introductory workshops to basic digital skills in functional device use and internet communication; entry level coding for the elementary to secondary school segment, using junior building blocks.

Intermediate digital skills for Undergrads, Graduates and Workers on in demand coding series, Web design & Development, Mobile Application Design, CyberSecurity and Cloud Computing.

Upskilling Workshops for Developers, Workers, Practitioners; In continuing eduation programs, Certifications and Ideation.

Sponsorships & Maker’s Prize

Icon signifying Sponsorships and Maker's Prize

We have established a program to sponsor promising, but underserved founders to some of the top business accelerator programs. In addition, TekSeries will be organizing an inaugural annual Maker’s Prize. This prize will reward the best Solution Innovation of the year, voted for on crowd sourced basis. This Prize is expected to be sponsored by a rotation of notable local and foreign corporations on an annual basis.

Job Series

Icon signifying Job Series

Current data courtesy of Nigeria’s own National Bureau of Statistics, indicates the Youth unemployment rate in Nigeria is at all time high of 42.5%, with under employment at 21.5%. Clearly, this challenge deserves the urgency of now and can only be met by the collective contributions of the public and private sector.

In this regard, we have partnered with sister organizations to feature employers in need of interns to advanced level tech and related industry workers. The Internships are expected to be a gateway into building potentially long term industry and entrepreneurial careers.

Our new Job Series portal will afford employers the ability to post openings for free. Applicants can also create free profiles, post the CVs and Resumes, perform free job searches and attend periodic interview, assessment and CV workshops.

Seed Investments

Icon signifying Seed Investments

Recognising the ever present funding challenge for startups, we continue to scout for impactful entities to invest in or syndicate funding for. We are resolved to make seed investments in stricly viable solutions and help kick start concepts we believe can evolve into mass appeal enterprises.

Events

Unlocking potential and transforming careers with our skills empowerment events in Nigeria!

Team

Anthony Ikeata

Anthony Ikeata

ed-tech

Anthony has been a Software and EdTech Instructor for over ten years. He has a master’s degree in computer science from Imo State University, Owerri, a Teaching Certificate from the University of Nottingham and a Cambridge Assessment Certificate in Information and Communication Technology. Anthony conducts TekSeries workshops and has instructed beginner to advanced level developers, using applications such as Scratch, Minecraft, Bee-bots and IDE’s to teach web authoring and design, [HTML, CSS, JavaScript] and Python.

Ogechi Oweziem

Ogechi Oweziem

talent/hr adviser

Rushabh Shah - Team member

Rushabh Shah

Tech Adviser

A Senior Software Engineer with COMCAST USA and RKS IT Services, Rushabh is a gifted developer and has participated in TekSeries workshops. He is well versed with all aspects of the software development life cycle. He has diverse skill sets in Ideate – Design – Code – QA – Performance – Deploy – Scale – Support – Iterate, Java (Desktop and Web) , Javascript, Android, node, React, Unix tools, Quality Assurance, Performance Testing, amongst others.

Board Members

Chijoke Metu - Board member

Chijoke Metu

founder

Metu has spent over twenty years, counselling and litigating on behalf of businesses and individual consumers. With graduate studies in Corporate, Commercial, Intellectual Property Law and a StartUp Executive Education, he has garnered extensive knowledge advising clients on varied aspects of transactional, idea protection and related matters.

Placid Aguwa - Board member

Placid Aguwa

Non-Executive Director

An experienced transactional attorney, Placid has spent several decades advising consumers, corporations and government agencies in Nigeria.

Foster Metu - Board member

Foster Metu

Country Manager

A veteran Network Engineer with Brookhouse, Shell and Computer People in the UK, Foster oversees TekSeries operations in Nigeria. He also serves as the CIO of Scalable Networks Nigeria Ltd, servicing projects in Server redeployment, backup and Exchange server migration. This in addition to production of detailed LAN/WAN migration plans, optimal use of network technology, LAN setup and configuration.

News

Welcome to 2022! 🎉

Welcome to 2022! 🎉

Our many thanks to all who supported our mission in 2021, from our kiddies' boot camps to webinars. Shout out to Anthony Ikeata, who ran our first...

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Summer of Code is here!

Summer of Code is here!

The TekSeries Summer Of Code is a follow-up to our Kiddies’ BootCamp held in February 2021. This virtual program is designed to sustain interest in...

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Memberships

VC4A - Venture Capital For Africa
NY Tech Alliance
CompTIA - Get IT Certified
Blacks in Technology