Coded in Country

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Geography: 

Kenya

Status: 

Ongoing

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Coded in Country

Affiliated Organizations: 

DataDyne

Dimagi

Dates: 

2009-present

We believe that ICT capacity-building is more likely to happen when more of a project’s “coding” (ie, programming) is done in-country, by local developers. Our Coded in Country (CIC) initiative aims to increase awareness of this by encouraging programs to put more than 50% of their programming funding towards local coders. Towards this end, Dimagi and DataDyne have created a CIC office, or node, in Nairobi Kenya, where DataDyne Kenyan programmers will work in collaboration with Dimagi trainers and other organizations on collaborative projects including the JavaROSA project.