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Large cheering group of Ukrainian women at a Garage48 Empowering Women programme, hands in the air

kood/Garage48 Empowering Women hackathons come to Kenya, Uganda and Ukraine

This December, //kood and Garage48 run free 48-hour hackathons in Nairobi, Kampala and Zhytomyr, where young people – with girls and young women at the centre – turn problems from their own communities into first digital prototypes.

Speaker opening the kood/Empower coding bootcamp in kood/Jõhvi, screen reading “Welcome to: kood/Empower”

kood/Empower bootcamp is under way in Jõhvi – next stop: the Garage48 hackathon

From 6 to 9 October, women from Ida-Virumaa are writing their first code at kood/Jõhvi. Next up: the Garage48 Empowering Women hackathon on 16–18 October.

Cheerful kood/Garage48 bootcamp participants waving from their laptops

Reflections from kood/Garage48 Empowering Women coding bootcamp

What happens when women who already manage projects, teams, businesses, and chaos decide to look under the hood of the systems they use every day?...

Laura (left) and two kood/Empower participants working together on a laptop

“There might be a secret coder inside you” – Reflections from kood/Empower bootcamp

Earlier this month, we wrapped up our third and final kood/Empower bootcamp of the year, welcoming another group of curious, bold and brilliant women who...

The kood/Cast logo, a microphone on yellow and dark backgrounds

Empowering women to explore tech, AI in banking, and expanding tech education with kood/Järva – kood/Cast ep 8

In this episode of kood/Cast, we explore how kood/Empower helps women take their first steps into coding and tech, how AI is shaping banking at...

A large group of kood/Empower participants cheering in the kood/Jõhvi study room

“Could I actually code?” – reflections from kood/Empower bootcamp

We spoke with Eliisa, Kadri, and Esther – three participants in the kood/Empower second bootcamp – to hear what motivated them to try coding, what...

Four smiling women with laptops at a shared table at the kood/Empower coding bootcamp for women

First kood/Empower bootcamp: reflections from women trying out coding for the very first time

What does it feel like to step into the world of coding for the very first time? We sat down with six remarkable women —...