• Share Code.X’s vision and desire to impact the local technology ecosystem

• Proper infrastructure, funding, and staff for program execution

• Relevant organization and staff experience in Computer Science, Human-Centered Design, youth education and management

• Local staffing of Program Coordinator(s), Teaching Assistants, and local Yearlong Instructor(s)

• Local marketing and news coverage to promote the program’s reach

• Collaborative program execution with Code.X team, including operations and impact reporting

• Instructor hosting and cultural immersion, supported with a Code.X program coordinator

• Student recruitment, skills assessment, and discipline

• Provision of local facilities for student learning and instructor room/board

• Core funding of the program in your locality for the above items

• Bespoke program design informed by local community, student, and partner needs

• Program marketing across competitive U.S. and Canadian universities and tech companies, with marketing of partnership with your organization

• Provisional licensing of cutting-edge program curriculum, including but not limited to Computer Science and Human-Centered Design

• Sourcing, training, managing, and coordinating travel of volunteer instructor cohort from competitive U.S. and Canadian universities and tech companies

• Collaborative local execution, classroom management, and impact reporting

Our flagship programs are designed for sustainability, promoting local involvement and meaningful, long-term capacity-building.

To support our theory of change, our expert team offers U.S. tech sector insight, cutting-edge curriculum, and a network of experienced instructors. Finding a strong local partner is crucial for program success and a requirement for our program design, outreach to exceptional prospective students and the generation of broader community support.

Community impact: By successfully collaborating with Code.X, a partner provides world-class technical education and self-empowerment to promising students. Program alumni leave with links to Silicon Valley via exposure to top-performing university students and industry mentors. These connections alongside strong technical training usher in a local culture of innovation and create strong showcase models.

Significant positive press: By working with world-class universities and organizations, Code.X partners emerge as leaders in their local technology ecosystems. Code.X differentiates from existing offerings through its intense focus on Human-Centered Design and personal growth, leading to students becoming ardent program advocates in their schools and communities.

Talent pipeline: Technical and applied understanding of Computer Science and Human-Centered Design create a more capable local workforce that can be gainfully employed and is capable of innovating. Our flagship program graduates have gone on to study at top universities such as Stanford University and MIT, launching startups and creating local jobs. Partners will have access to a deeply committed pipeline of top-tier local talent through Code.X.

World Bank releases an annual assessment of Fragile and Conflict-Affected Regions, updated each year on July 1.

The list distinguishes between countries based on the nature of issues they face. The classification uses the following categories:

• Countries with high levels of institutional and social fragility, identified based on indicators that measure the quality of policy and institutions, and manifestations of fragility.

• Countries affected by violent conflict, identified based on a threshold number of conflict-related deaths relative to the population.

World Bank’s 2024 FCA List

Conflict: Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Iraq, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Ukraine, West Bank and Gaza, Republic of Yemen

Institutional and Social Fragility: Burundi, Chad, Comoros, Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Solomon Islands, .Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Venezuela, Zimbabwe

1) Technology and education eco-systems in developing countries involve a variety of stakeholders (NGOs, government, private sector) which may lack the expertise and exposure to technology leaders to execute their visions — expertise that our team provides via our wide range of tech skills and leadership within Silicon Valley.

2) The majority of existing initiatives are focused on inputs rather than outcomes and subsequently fail to deliver the desired impact. Many of these projects operate on short-term timelines with excessive red-tape (i.e., are unsustainable). We understand that outcomes take time and are willing to invest in our students throughout their growth as young adults.

3) The “Aid Industry” disincentivizes innovation due to entrenched participants (e.g., sub-contractors, outside consultants) that rely on a steady stream of projects, leading to the promotion of programs without much concern over quality. We have a targeted approach in areas that request our services and work carefully with local partners to ensure quality and accuracy with our program delivery.

Code.X flagship programs are more than just coding camps. Beyond Computer Science, our curricula has a focus on problem solving and human-centered design in order to foster critical thinking skills and empower students – which requires in-person interaction and project-based learning.

More significantly, our low student–teacher ratio allows for individual attention and comprehensive mentorship that shapes students beyond academics. We believe that these students will grow to become change-agents in their communities.

Local organizations partner with Code.X to improve the standard of technical education, leading to significant and deliberate secondary effects. As we do not rely on paid teaching professionals or contractors to implement, the relative cost to operate is low.

The Code.X team will provide a sample budget during the program design process to help you calculate budget requirements specific to your location.

Code.X’s partnership model is designed to be de-centralized, our on-the-ground partners co-owning our educational programs and sharing in Code.X’s vision from Day 1.

Code.X focuses on knowledge transfer and building up the capacity of our local partners to rely less on Code.X over time. The core organization does not need to significantly grow in size to expand operations to new markets.

Code.X believes that technology is the future, and that all voices deserve to be a part of that future, no matter the circumstances of one’s life.

Among students, Code.X programs are expected to achieve both gender and socioeconomic diversity, with a 50:50 ratio of girls to boys as well as two-thirds of students from underserved communities.

Code.X instructors model this diversity, with an equal gender ratio and socioeconomic/racial diversity. To prevent socioeconomic status from being a barrier, all expenses are paid for both students and instructors.

To provide world-class instruction, we need to attract world-class instructors. Being selected as a Code.X instructor is a prestigious achievement and covering all expenses is one component of that. Most volunteers take time off from their summer internships or jobs to travel for our programs, and we would like to remove as many barriers as possible for their participation.

As mentioned, this also enables socioeconomic diversity of our instructors, which benefits students. We strongly believe that the return on investment is significant.

Code.X started recruiting solely with students from Stanford University in order to focus on program execution. This allowed for streamlining recruitment and building a community of Code.X volunteer alumni. Demand at Stanford significantly exceeds available Code.X volunteer positions (by a ratio of 5:1).

As we expand, we have opened recruitment to students and alumni from other top universities and tech companies while maintaining our standards of teaching and quality of brand.