As we welcome a new week, Web3bridge is also welcoming a new beginning and a new year.
Web3bridge, a program that was established in 2019 to train Web3 developers in Africa, is celebrating its third birthday today.
Founded by Awosika Israel Ayodeji, a business developer and blockchain educator, the company is working towards building a sustainable web3 economy in Africa through remote and onsite Web3 development training, supporting web3 developers and startups, and lowering barriers to entry into the web3 ecosystem. Most importantly, it is bridging the gap between the web2 and web3 worlds.
Ayodeji was inspired to start Web3bridge after seeing a tweet by Joseph Lubin the co-founder of Consensys about the need to get 1Million Developers into the Ethereum ecosystem. Additionally, prior to the tweet, he had always seen a gap between the blockchain users, the product, and the developers, and an overall low number of blockchain and smart contract developers in Africa.
Web3bridge has so far hosted over 6 cohorts consisting of 16 weeks of web3 training and has successfully introduced over 880 students to web3 and trained over 1808 in web2 technologies. Most participants have come from Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and India.
Commenting on the company’s achievements Ayodeji stated, “Our proudest moment and biggest achievement are learning that our graduates get to work with amazing teams, or they are a part of the team that built a very great product. Our major achievement will be the number of developers we have been able to add to the ecosystem, and the number of individuals we have been able to directly or indirectly impact on their blockchain journey.”
A few graduates have successfully built sustainable decentralized applications (DApps) and others have successfully joined employment working with global brands such as Aavegotchi, Nahmii, Consensys, Polygon, and Netherminds among others.
Ayodeji noted that Web3bridge is working towards expanding the developers’ ecosystem and better yet, becoming a bigger training institute in the coming years.
He said, “As we clock three, my expectation is for a more robust community of developers. I look forward to having more successful developers trained by Web3bridge. In addition, our goal is to become a technical college for IT where we train all things tech.”
“We are focusing on maintaining the Web3bridge standard, and we will be working toward securing the Web3bridge facility. We believe the Web3bridge facility will allow us to increase the number of developers we are able to train, and we will also improve our support for remote learners across different countries in Africa,” he added.
The training firm recently hosted a three-day web3 conference in Lagos that hosted over 1000 participants in attendance. The conference convened stakeholders, industry experts, and software developers to network and discuss the web3 ecosystem.
According to Web3bridge, beyond celebrating three years of contributions to the Blockchain and Web3 space in Africa and international scenes, one of their core beliefs is that repeated interactions will contribute resourcefully to career growth.