Ada
Ada is decided to empower thousands o young women in Latin America who are unemployed or don’t have a formal job. To change this, we offer to women of LAC the possibility to study programming in Ada, they may simply pay part of their tuition upfront with the intention and agreement to pay for the remainder once they have secured a job in the IT industry. This business model is a game changer that allows the promotes inclusion.
Ada aims to aid the issue of the lack of talent in technology, the gender gap in technology and the labour participation of women in the workforce. 25 million young people without access to work or education in latam, 75% are women and it is estimated that technology companies in the region will need 1.2 million people in 2025.
Ada provide an affordable and personalized learning plan for women from all parts of society (including those with some kind of vulnerability) to kickstart a career in technology and connect with companies that need their talent.
Ada is an online learning experience for women of all over latin america with technical (400 hs in Frontend or Backend development) and soft skills training and an accompaniment for job placement in technology companies Our solution includes synchronous classes and asynchronous activities such as programming practice and theory through an online platform. They as well as gain hands-on work experiences with our professional practices program in which they develop a real world app for a non-profit with the accompaniment of experienced mentors.
Our primary focus is to empower women with no post-secondary education, without a job or with an informal jobs.
With our training, we intend to offer the benefited women the possibility of obtaining a formal and well-paid job, which implies the possibility of accessing social security and their own economic resources. Therefore, it leads to their instead to greater economic independence and in consequence, greater independence in general. This is what we mean when we talk about economic empowerment.
The benefits related to the economic women's empowerment are multiple and truly substantial, both in a social and individual sense. These are some of the most immediate benefits that women obtain by having access to their own economic resources:
It improves their ability to negotiate at home, on issues that affect their own lives and / or that of their children, and also potentially in the community and in society.
The increase in the contribution of income to the home by women considerably improves social and family well-being, the higher the income under the control of women, the greater spending on health and nutrition, which in turn contributes to breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty.
Economic power allows women to make strategic life decisions, such as postponing the age at which they marry and have children.
The economic empowerment of women protects them from gender violence since it is more likely to occur when the woman is in a position of dependency and has limited options in terms of remaining or ending the relationship.
Promoting women's relative control over income and other economic resources is a kind of magic formula that facilitates both gender equality and the wealth and well-being of nations. Women with economic power gain greater equality and control over their own lives, contribute directly to their children's human capital (nutrition, health, and education) and to poverty reduction.
- Equip everyone, regardless of age, gender, education, location, or ability, with culturally relevant digital literacy skills to enable participation in the digital economy.
Our goal is to provide young women with a real and effective opportunity to improve their job profile and get a formal job that allows them to achieve economic self-sufficiency and social security, through the training of technological skills, soft skills, and support in the job searching. This is in fact literally what the second dimension of the Challenge seeks: to strengthen STEM competencies to achieve an effective transition from education to employment.
We identified a problem: STEM gender gap and unequal female participation in the labor market
We identified an opportunity: an unmet high demand for technology professionals.
And we propose a solution: Train women in technology (specifically in Programming and Web Development) and accompany them in their insertion in a labor sector with a very high rate of employability, with the dual objective of reducing the gender gap and providing employment without generating extra pressure in the market, while helping to meet the needs of the local market.
So far the results have been quite successful and we hope to be able to replicate and expand them throughout the region, for which we need financing.
- Scale: A sustainable enterprise working in several communities or countries that is looking to scale significantly, focusing on increased efficiency.
Today Ada is an established non profit organization working since 2017 on women empowerment through technology. Currently working with women from all over latin america.
- A new business model or process that relies on technology to be successful
Our solution is innovative because it was created to working with women with all parts of society, providing them with an end to end solution to start a career in technology, to enable a broader impact and promote the sustainability of the organization. We combine training in technical and softskills with a hands-on approach on learning. We developed a professional practices program to provide our graduates with real hands on experience on projects to complement their training.
- Software and Mobile Applications
- Women & Girls
- LGBTQ+
- Middle-Income
- 4. Quality Education
- 5. Gender Equality
- 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
- Argentina
- Colombia
- Mexico
The current number of people that we served: 1000 women
In one year we plan to impact in 500 more women.
In five year we plan to impact in 5000 women.
We are measuring:
Number of women impacted through our main program
Number of women impacted through our introduction to programming workshops.
Overall satisfaction with our training (NPS)
Job placement insertion rate
Improvement on income of our graduates after get hired
- Nonprofit
Full-time staff: 6
Part-time: 3
Contractor: 18
Our team is well-positioned to deliver this solution because of the successful track record of creating and developing innovative education programs. One of our co-founders was the main technical advisor on the firsts learn to code programs of the City Goverment of Buenos Aires. Our other co-founder is a Software Architect with experience on leading teams and teaching and creating technology. Other team members have business and international relations backgrounds and can provide administrative support.
The leadership team involve and reflect the various communities we serve through partnership and open innovation.
We design our policies, practices, and resources with the goal of providing people of all backgrounds a genuine opportunity to thrive.
Because we want to learn and exchange experiences with solvers around the world to improve our work and expand it, and help us overcome the barriers to reach more women with our work.
For us is important to receive the grant but it's more important the mentorship opportunities, the evaluation support to measure of impact and expose our solution to MIT Community.
- Financial (e.g. improving accounting practices, pitching to investors)
- Public Relations (e.g. branding/marketing strategy, social and global media)
- Monitoring & Evaluation (e.g. collecting/using data, measuring impact)
We need help to improve our communication strategy to achieve all of our goals. We also need a better monitoring and evaluation system to detect opportunities for improvement in our business model and work.
In order to expand our operations, we need more financial support thats why we need to learn how to reach institutional grantees.
- No, I do not wish to be considered for this prize, even if the prize funder is specifically interested in my solution
- No, I do not wish to be considered for this prize, even if the prize funder is specifically interested in my solution
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With our training, we intend to offer the benefited women the possibility of obtaining a formal and well-paid job, which implies the possibility of accessing social security and their own economic resources. Therefore, it leads to their instead to greater economic independence and in consequence, greater independence in general. This is what we mean when we talk about economic empowerment.
The benefits related to the economic women's empowerment are multiple and truly substantial, both in a social and individual sense. These are some of the most immediate benefits that women obtain by having access to their own economic resources:
It improves their ability to negotiate at home, on issues that affect their own lives and / or that of their children, and also potentially in the community and in society.
The increase in the contribution of income to the home by women considerably improves social and family well-being, the higher the income under the control of women, the greater spending on health and nutrition, which in turn contributes to breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty.
Economic power allows women to make strategic life decisions, such as postponing the age at which they marry and have children.
The economic empowerment of women protects them from gender violence since it is more likely to occur when the woman is in a position of dependency and has limited options in terms of remaining or ending the relationship.
Promoting women's relative control over income and other economic resources is a kind of magic formula that facilitates both gender equality and the wealth and well-being of nations. Women with economic power gain greater equality and control over their own lives, contribute directly to their children's human capital (nutrition, health, and education) and to poverty reduction
- Yes, I wish to apply for this prize
With our training, we intend to offer the benefited women the possibility of obtaining a formal and well-paid job, which implies the possibility of accessing social security and their own economic resources. Therefore, it leads to their instead to greater economic independence and in consequence, greater independence in general. This is what we mean when we talk about economic empowerment.
The benefits related to the economic women's empowerment are multiple and truly substantial, both in a social and individual sense. These are some of the most immediate benefits that women obtain by having access to their own economic resources:
It improves their ability to negotiate at home, on issues that affect their own lives and / or that of their children, and also potentially in the community and in society.
The increase in the contribution of income to the home by women considerably improves social and family well-being, the higher the income under the control of women, the greater spending on health and nutrition, which in turn contributes to breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty.
Economic power allows women to make strategic life decisions, such as postponing the age at which they marry and have children.
The economic empowerment of women protects them from gender violence since it is more likely to occur when the woman is in a position of dependency and has limited options in terms of remaining or ending the relationship.
Promoting women's relative control over income and other economic resources is a kind of magic formula that facilitates both gender equality and the wealth and well-being of nations. Women with economic power gain greater equality and control over their own lives, contribute directly to their children's human capital (nutrition, health, and education) and to poverty reduction
- No, I do not wish to be considered for this prize, even if the prize funder is specifically interested in my solution
- No, I do not wish to be considered for this prize, even if the prize funder is specifically interested in my solution