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.
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
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
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.
Events
Unlocking potential and transforming careers with our skills empowerment events in Nigeria!
🚀 Hey Future Leaders! Ready to Supercharge Your Job Hunt? Imagine a future where your dream job isn’t just a wish, but...
This will be an interactive learning program, designed as an introduction and supplement to current school level...
Introducing JobSeries by TekSeries™ Job Action Day introduces the latest product addition to TekSeries called...
As Women’s history month draws to a close, join us to discuss, taking stock and expanding opportunities for women in...
As a Senior Technical Recruiter for Amazon, Mr. Swindell has recruited Software Developers, Frontend/Backend...
Helping both entry-level and experienced techies develop strategies that will enable them land both remote and onsite...
Our free annual summer coding camp for 8 - 16 year old juniors is here. Designed to introduce and reinforce entry to...
In this two-day virtual interactive session, your instructor will respond to live and submitted questions, while...
Learn how to obtain new work skills through MOOCS [Massive Open Online Courses] and get paid from the global...
Free kiddies virtual coding camp. This program is a much-demanded follow-up to our last in-person boot camp. It is...
Early coding concepts and building blocks for the future. This will be a two-weekend interactive session, designed to...
Immerse yourself in the introduction of Web Design using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Save the date: Tuesday, March 26,...
Team
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
talent/hr adviser
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
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
Non-Executive Director
An experienced transactional attorney, Placid has spent several decades advising consumers, corporations and government agencies in Nigeria.
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
Thank you to all our organizers and attendees at the recently concluded Eziama Junior Programming Bootcamp. After several online and in town...
Our many thanks to today’s speakers at the Women, Work & Tech event. Thank you Zigwal, Yetunde, and...
Much thanks to Mr. Ravon Swindel of Amazon for sharing his extensive knowledge on how to how to Prepare, Plan and Pass Technical Interviews. ...
Many thanks to our attendees and presenters at the September 24, 2022, Tech Jobs Session. It was two and half hours of insightful engagement on the...
Thanks to all the kids that attended our 4th annual summer code camp, including some returnees from previous workshops. Thanks to our lead...
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...
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...
A big thank you to all the participants & Instructors at the Kiddies BootCamp 2.0, held on February 20 and 27, 2021 in Owerri, Imo State...
With the exponential increase in virtual traffic over the last year, Cyber Security has become an even hotter topic. On December 4, 2020, TekSeries...
We congratulate Oscar Onuoha on his TekSeries sponsorship and acceptance to the Founders Institute Startup Accelerator Program. This will be a...
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