 Mae'r cyflym cyncaf, ddweud hynny, ddim yn ddim i chi gyd yn fwyaf i'r ffordd ar adre Fernog Ardweithydd yng Nghaerwedd Ynwyth Girt. Mae'r fan hyn yn ardig o'r esbygau lleol yng ngyfridgwr Llywodraeth eich Lŵw dda. A i'r ffawr eich obs slangolfol â'r ffordd ar gyfer y Rosglynydd Arnau Afri. Yr Rosglynydd Afri yw oes yn ymwyfn iawn ac yn gwybod i'r wneud bod yn i'r hanffordi, there's no better way to build a future for this continent than to develop and invest in the talents and futures of the youth and the young population. So delighted with that in mind to be here moderating this press conference on how we can foster digital literacy as a basic skill for African youth. Learning more about Africa Code Week and other efforts as well that have been ongoing by our panel. I'm delighted to be able to be joined by Andrew Ycheety, the managing director SAP East Africa. Next to Andrew Joffield-Bair in Sengymanna, Minister of Youth and ICT here in Rwanda, and I believe a young global leader, a member of one of our global agenda councils, a great constituent, a great friend of the forum, Arnold Kamanzia, trainer Africa Code Week. No better way of figuring out how it is, what are the difficulties, what are the challenges of imbuing these new skills when asking the people who are training, the people who are being trained. Aphrodite Muthangana, my friend, the head of the general manager of KLAB here in Kigali. You may know KLAB this week, they launched their FABLAB, the Future of Distributed Manufacturing, a very, very key component of Africa's digital transformation. Lastly, Sinal Genes, SAP's Africa Government Affairs and CSI Director, who will be hopefully telling us a bit about the future plans for this. So, with this in mind, we don't have a huge amount of time. I'd very much like to hand the floor to Andrew to introduce the concept of Code Week. Thank you, thank you very much, and welcome again. So, I'll get straight to the point. I think it starts with a point that was made yesterday by the President of Rwanda, his Excellency President Kagame, around the import of ICT as an investment, as a base for investment for the development of Rwanda, where many people may have questioned why ICT. I think he saw the future of ICT in creating the basis for the growth of the entire economy. So, as SAP, we share the same vision, and we feel that the Africa Code Week is a small seed to plant in providing the youth of tomorrow with a choice as to defining what their destiny is. In a very short space of time, we can provide them access and tools to start learning about developing programmes through coding, and what this does is allow them to then determine their own destinies in ways that they probably didn't have before. So, in short, that's what Africa Code Week is. It's something that we are doing across the continent. Last year, we were able to touch over 80,000 kids across this continent, and this year, we hope it will even be bigger. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Mr Minister, I'd love to hear why you got involved in Code Week, but I'd also like to hear maybe some wider context as to what you're doing here in Rwanda. A lot of people are asking me, as the media space person here, why are we here in Rwanda? One of the reasons, of course, is it's investing in its youth. Thank you so much. I think this has to go with our overall development strategy. We are a country in a hurry. We are a country that is on a journey to transform its people and its economy. We are moving from a culture-based economy to a knowledge-based economy. Investment into ICT is critical. We've been investing heavily into infrastructure. We invest in an environment that is able to attract private sector investment, but most importantly, we've been investing in our people. There is no way that anybody can achieve this digital transformation that everyone is talking about if it's not driven by the people. Here, we are looking at two types of people. There are people like us on this panel, except probably Arnold, who are the digital migrants. Somebody was saying yesterday that they had their first driving licence before touching a computer, but nevertheless they are leading big multinational IT companies. But also the young generation, who are the digital natives, who I believe have even a bigger opportunity to play a bigger role in this digital transformation. It's about their future. In Davos, somebody said, I think it's Professor Shabu who said that nobody knows what the 60% of the jobs that are going to be here in 20 years will look like. No one knows because the people who are going to create those jobs are not yet born. For those who are born, the young people of Rwanda, having an opportunity like the Africa Code Week, really learning this new skill at a very tender age, so that it becomes the new standard of basic literacy. I think it's an opportunity that is unprecedented and I'd like to recognise SAP for taking the lead for your leadership on this one. Thank you. Thank you. Arnold, you're the only digital native here, so the burden falls on you to tell us more about the work you're actually doing, the challenges and the uniqueness of the work that you're doing, training people during Cogwee. Thank you. I joined the Africa Code Week, which started in Rwanda on October 2015, where we trained about 800 students. Being also from a background of being a computer scientist and programmer, I myself and the vision of Africa Code Week is being teaching these young kids and these young generation the basics of programming as it is where the world is moving. So I took interest in it and I joined the Africa Code Week. So my experience has been a good one given that these kids, some of them whom we are training is their first time using the computer. So, as he has been saying, some have had their first driving license before they even touched a computer, I think I experienced this within these trainings. And not only giving them the basics of programming, also we are teaching them how to use computers and opening up the amount to the world of programming. So in these trainings we are using a program called Scratch, which is designed by MIT in a very simple way that kids could understand, be introduced to the world of programming and everything. So I think it has been a good experience and we are still equipping these kids to the basics of programming, yes. How has it changed? How has it affected you going through this process? What have you learned from this process? Personally, I have been touched actually, knowing that I have skills that people could use actually. And also in the past I have been thinking, how can I pass this also to the younger generation as to where it's going? And I didn't have a clue, but actually by joining the Africa Code Week I saw how we could pass this out to the kids. And also it's a good actually to help the community with the skills you have and to get these kids where they need to be with this digital world we are moving in. And what kind of impact do you see on the kids after they've been through at the end of Code Week? Yes. The impact is firstly they are now open to the computers. First you can find the kids being fear of even touching a computer and then after the sessions they are now like we can do anything with the computer now with the basic skills. So it's impacting them also as we will be going on and teaching the trainers. I think it's going to be a good impact to the kids and given that also they are introduced to the computers. So I think it's a big impact, yes. Thank you. Afrodaisie, we met back in February of course around that time you were involved in rolling out Code Week in Rwanda. Tell us about your experiences here on the ground and what you've been able to achieve. Thank you very much. In October as Anna said we trained more than 800 kids using ICT buses. You know is teaching something new in different environment. And we saw that it was kids like it so much. We decided to organize another one in December to reach out to students who were in holidays. And we trained more than 400 kids at Calab. And in March also we trained trainers because we saw that it's we will be training many kids in Rwanda and our target was so high and we said why not train trainers who will be helping to spread the knowledge. And in March we trained more than 30 trainers. And then last month in April we said you see there is a more like he for she movement and we said why not involve gender. Last month we trained more than 8107 teenager refugee girls in different camps in Rwanda. You know we introduced these computer skills to even to refugee guns. Thank you. Thank you. And Sunil you've been involved very much in the genesis of this plan. What are your future? What are we going to expect in the future? Thanks very much. So we launched Africa Code Week here during the World Economic Forum. And people like FODs were involved in taking some of our teams out into the rural areas up in the north. And just standing there with the young children looking at them, touching for the very first time a computer and going through a process of digital literacy at that level was quite incredible. Other tagline of Africa Code Week is coding is a new language and every child deserves to learn this. Our plans are focused on increased partnership with multilateral agencies with the Africa Union in particular with governments across South Africa to ensure South Africa and the rest of Africa to ensure that we have a strong partnership and that this program can grow across the entire African continent in the years to come. As Andrew mentioned last year we had a target of 20,000 youth to be trained and we hit a target in excess of 80,000 in 10 countries. The focus for the year coming up, this is year 2016, is to go into 30 countries with a lofty number of 150,000 youth to be trained in three categories, 8 to 12, 13 to 17, 18 to 24. And essentially the younger groups will be trained on MIT Scratch, which is a freely available software. And the older group will work on web-based programming which has been developed and is readily available on the SAP MOOC, as we call it. Now the United Nations has worked on the sustainable goals and it's our firm belief that in order to achieve this we need to create digital natives that are able to take advantage of the global economy while sitting in any part of Africa. They could be in rural areas programming and essentially in time to come we could expose them to markets out there through some of our supplier bases that we have, through our partners and our customers to then program applications which would be worthwhile for the utilization for commercial enterprises. And this essentially ensures that we address a number of things, matters of population migration, matters of ensuring that the rural areas of the world and in particular Africa are given its rightful place on the global map. In the future we will see changes that we've never seen, unprecedented changes. The only way we can take care of the future is to plan for it. And by enabling these young people to be empowered through digital programming we are giving them skill sets which will determine the future from space travel, from matters of digital robotics to education and e-learning. So I'll pause at that point. Thank you Oliver. Thanks so much. I'm happy to take any questions from the floor. Lady here, can we have a microphone please? My question is... Mum, can you remind us your name please? Okay, my name is Maggie Mutesi from Rwanda TV and my question goes to Janice. I hope that's the right pronunciation and why it's true. With Rwanda exceptional put aside, all these people we're thinking of training across the continent, we are looking at solutions but not looking at the challenges. Is it realistic for us to think we are going to transform the continent when some countries don't have the right infrastructure and policies in place to enable the innovators to use the technology to transform the continent? Thank you. Maybe Andrew, if I could start by addressing that. Thank you very much for that question and it's a pertinent question. This is about covering the bases. What we've seen in recent past is that there is increased focus on the African continent by big blocks, G7, the African Union itself, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. More particularly now you are seeing the evolution of the SMART Africa program, which has been initiated in recent times to create a digital Africa into the future. That collaboration we've been talking to key players within that organization, works very closely with African presidents, in fact they have 10 if not 11 African presidents on the board. And it's our intention to work very closely with governments to create a partnership for the creation of the public good, not the commercial good. And I believe in private sector and governments across the world, together with the NGO sector and other stakeholders, social entrepreneurs, collectively work together. There is no reason why Africans cannot take the rightful place on the global stage. There is no reason why we cannot supersede and take advantage of bleeding edge technology, which other people have gone through repeatedly to get to an optimum solution. In regards to connectivity, we are talking about transforming the continent through digitalization, but we have 650 million Africans who do not have access to electricity. 68% are not connected, mobile broadband connection. So isn't this a challenge? Give me the feasibility, give me your view on this. Sure, and thank you very much. It is a challenge and I think through challenges such as this, this is where you find some of the most innovative ideas. There are a number of organizations who have met even in this world economic forum, who are doing new and different things in terms of creating access to data and broadband access, using things like Whitespace. I believe there is one organization, Microsoft, the For Africa Foundation that is driving the use of new methods of getting Wi-Fi access very, very cheaply. This is at less than the cost of a dollar a month to people anywhere in respect of where they are. Power, of course, is going to be another challenge, the secondary challenge, but the way this is being addressed, not just by providing new sources of energy, is working also with the people who create the devices that we use. So it's not about looking at computers in computers per se. If you look at what is happening, for example here in Rwanda, when you went out to digitize your schools, the devices that were created were specific to the needs of the environment. And these are the kind of partnerships that we need to challenge ourselves. We cannot take what is working in, let's say, a more developed country and say that the same thing is going to work here in Africa. So we have to look at our particular challenges and then with the partnerships that we can build in forums like this, really address those challenges. Can I ask a third question, the last one. We'll go to Honourable Minister Sange Manor and the two gentlemen from the initiative. Yes. A lot of people would say that the solutions or the innovations come up with now are not tailored for the African solutions. I want you to challenge that. Well, I think that's, as you say, it's a position that needs to be challenged because, you know, where are these young men finding problems to resolve? It is in their community. They're not dreaming about a problem that might exist somewhere in the US and design a solution for that. So when you look at what, for this, for instance, himself, who could have said it himself, the kind of challenge he's trying to resolve in the health sector, in the pharmaceutical industry. People not being able to locate the drugs that has been prescribed to them and get quick access to those life-saving medicine. This is not a foreign problem. It's an African problem, but also could be a global problem. So in fact, let's depart from that idea that there is something called African problem that is not a global problem or a global problem that's not an African problem. And what you've been even encouraging our young people to do is to think global and act local. Comansi, these innovations, including you, Honourable Minister, should be able to get our people out of poverty. However, most innovators, I would love to hear from the young men, though, would say that innovation should be, you know, it's interpynioship. Is this going to get our people out of poverty? Is it bringing money to you? I would say... And thank you. Excuse me. I think a nice way of looking at this is what impact do we see from kids and young people who go through this? Is it helping them to find game for employment today? Are they improving their livelihoods after training initiatives such as this? If you look in the context of Africa Code Week, we are training kids from age of 7 to 14, actually. So, regarding... Let's put aside the kids. Actually, I myself, I have a startup called TakeAvenu137, and we are trying to solve, I mean, issues regarding this creative, I mean, digital world. So, we are currently, and actually we have started like making a living out of it, so I'm a living example of it, and currently we have like two products on market. So, which says we are trying to create solutions for our society. So, if you... When I get back to Africa Code Week, the kids you are training, this is not the kind of thing we are preparing them actually for this digital creation. Because if we train the kids from age of 7 to 14, I think they will be... They will get to the age of 18 while actually trying to create this innovation. Because if you look in the context of other world like European kids, and you see the kind of games they create with this program you are training with kids, it's really quite amazing. So, I think if we try... If you are preparing these kids to get there, they certainly make money out of it. Yes. Did I answer your question correctly? I would like to see what about yourself. Thank you very much, Maggie. About the issues. I started my own business in 2012. I was working at FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization. Then I decided to leave. And now I have my own business. And apart that, I'm also managing Caleb. When I joined Caleb, I was just a tenant. I just had an idea. And so... Why did I start business? Because I had a dream. I wanted to solve some problems. And yes, I have official reasons why I started business in the health sector. I have official reasons and unofficial reasons. They are unofficial and I wanted to be a medical doctor, but I didn't get the chance. I decided to create my own way to be who I wanted to be. And the other thing, the official reasons, in 2011 we had 191 specialists in the country of 10 million. And mobile penetration now is more than 78%. So I decided to create a linkage between doctors and using the infrastructure and the materials available. Let me give you another example of initiative we started. Inchick initiative to help the survivors of genocide. Once I visited... I visited... I'm used to help needy people and poor people. Once I visited a mum called Caritasie. She's 86 now. She had nine children. Eight of them were killed during the genocide and the surviving one was raped and contracted HIV. In 2000 she passed away. Now that mum cannot walk, cannot do anything. So I said, we have technology here. What can we do? I created a mobile crowdfunding. We'll just take your phone, your dial 654 and I deduct that amount on your airtime. 50, 65, 100. You see, we are not only looking on money, but we are also looking to solve problems. Then in 2014 we managed to raise 1.7 million Rwandan francs, which is about $2,000. And last year we managed to raise more than 5 million. So you see it's something increasing. We are using technology to solve some problems we are seeing in our community. Thank you. Maggie, if I may, I've got a couple of questions. Can I go ahead? I exercise my writer's moderator. Andrew, one for you. To what degree is this CSR and to what degree is it core business getting these kids trained? And Mr Minister, if I may ask you a question, which is inspired by one of the co-chairs comments this morning about business driving education and training, and I'm wondering if you could give us some thoughts on where we're at in terms of forging true public-private cooperation, collaboration, a meaningful education for young people, maybe Andrew first. Thanks for that. As far as SAP goes, education and entrepreneurship, the basis of what we do from a CSR perspective and it ties back very well from a strategic perspective because if you think about it, if we develop the entrepreneurs and businesses of the future on a digital platform, which is what we as SAP stand for, these are most likely going to be our customers. This from a business perspective, we have more people who are coming into the economy understanding the impact that digitalisation can have in not just what they do, but how they solve problems in the social areas in which they operate. So from an SAP perspective, it lines up 100%. The question on PPP, I've been part of different discussion panels already during this conference and I realise that one thing that I find in common in every one of those discussions, I find a strong belief that the power of technology to really shape a better future for everyone, everyone believes in it. Second thing that is, I find an excitement, really almost palpable excitement that we in fact can tap that potential that technology presents today and close all sorts of gaps that we've been seeing, whether it is gap in access to technology infrastructure, education gaps in rural versus urban areas, men versus women, you can feel that people now have come to this point to believe that we in our lifetime in our generation can eliminate those gaps. Thirdly, I find a conviction that only partnerships, effective partnerships can do this. Even on this panel, when Sunir spoke and then Andrew, everyone from the private sector is speaking a language of creating public good. But if you listen to the heads of the president and the president of the African Development Bank earlier on today, you find that the private sector is speaking about the public sector is talking about having the private sector do good and do well and make money and make profits but at the same time uplift people's lives. So is this the first time that we are seeing now these two sectors exactly speaking the same language and in fact getting this sort of empathy where everyone speaks about the good of the other, I think we are on a very good way and we will make these challenges history. It's the first time we're talking together, talking the same language. Sunir, would you have any comments on that from your side as a business leader looking to talking and working with governments? Absolutely and we must commend our minister for ICT here in Rwanda who has been working tirelessly with his colleagues, the minister of education and I believe he is also touch base with President Kagame about this and how all of these little facets contribute to the ultimate vision that President Kagame has said for Rwanda some time back. Now SAP is a company that started almost 45 years ago by five entrepreneurs and that entrepreneurial spirit has remained in the company for years and years including up to this stage. Ultimately the minister spoke about creating public good. SAP, its partners and its customers through collaboration are committed to creating this public good and to ensure that Africa rises to its rightful place on the globe. We've heard Howard Buffett yesterday, a global billionaire philanthropist, somebody who has a big interest in Africa talk about this in other terms, in terms of what he's doing in terms of conservation. Technology is pervasive in every facet and in every industry and if we get this right for once in our lives as humanity we'll be planning for success in the future with the new generation that comes along. Fantastic, well thank you very much. We're fast running out of time indeed, we have run out of time. All that is left is for me to thank you all for joining us here, it's fascinating, it's great work, highly commendable, I wish you every success in the future. Thank you for joining us here in the room and thank you for watching us live online at weforum.org. This session is now closed. Thank you. Thank you very much.