The cloud computing arm of the massive Chinese multinational Alibaba Group, Alibaba Cloud, is aiming to enable one million female coders by the year 2030. It announced its Tech for Change initiative at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) show in Barcelona and is creating its first partnership based around supporting female education around the world. Partnering with the African-led iamtheCODE movement, Alibaba Cloud is hoping to achieve its worthy goal of empowering a million female coders in the next ten years by providing free online training as well as free access to its cloud computing resources too. Alibaba Cloud has a wide range of partners, with technological expertise, to offer the initiative as well as global computing resources it can put in front of young women programmers. In partnership with iamtheCODE, it can give these women from marginalised communities the support they need to grow. There is a dearth of female coders, especially in the games industry, and fewer still from the sort of marginalised communities the Tech for Change initiative is targeting. Any growth in the diversity of our game creators can only be a good thing… we don’t want it to end up as stale as Hollywood.
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