“One Million Arab Coders” achieves quantum leaps in empowering Arab youth

“One Million Arab Coders” achieves quantum leaps in empowering Arab youth

- The initiative was concluded last July after 4 successful years of learning and development

- A contribution of five million study hours and 76,000 training workshops provided by the digital platform “Udacity”.

- One Million Arab Coders brought about 100,000 successful graduation projects and granted 1,500 scholarships for its outstanding students

Dubai, UAE: Since its launch in 2017, and over the course of four years, One Million Arab Coders (OMAC) initiative part of Mohammed bin Rashid Global Initiatives (MBRGI), and led by Dubai Future Foundation (DFF), has equipped more than one million Arab youth with digital skills, in partnership with Udacity - a global digital educational platform specializing in providing digital courses in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, cloud computing, and other disciplines.

Udacity, the learning platform, welcomed more than one million Arabs from 80 countries to learn programming through five million hours of study, and provided 76,000 training workshops. The initiative has brought about 100,000 successful graduation projects, and granted 1,500 scholarships for outstanding students, and succeeded in making a qualitative leap in the world of digital learning and programming.

“One Million Arab Coders” - the largest initiative of its kind has bridged the digital literacy gap among Arab