The Built With Bitcoin Foundation (BWB) has opened a brand new Bitcoin Technology Center in Ejisu, Ghana, a metropolis in Greater Kumasi, as a legacy for the inaugural Africa Bitcoin Conference. The heart might be run by Ghanaians, for Ghanaians, in accordance to a press launch despatched to Bitcoin Magazine.
BWB Founders Ray Youssef and Yusuf Nessary plan to reveal the campus on Thursday December 8, 2022, with a tour attended by numerous members of the worldwide Bitcoin neighborhood.
The important purpose of the Bitcoin Technology Center, in accordance to the press launch, “is to equip the local community with skills and knowledge within the finance and technology industries — it’s also intended to build community and foster a safe environment to learn.”
Support for the ability comes from the Edwinase neighborhood, Blockchain Foundation Africa, and the Bitcoin neighborhood. Eight staff will work there, together with directors and lecturers.
The launch detailed a number of the numerous topics to be taught on the heart, together with, “Financial literacy: understanding money,” “Introduction to Bitcoin,” “Entrepreneurship,” “Introduction to computers” and “Introduction to coding.”
The facility might be free to entry and the middle goals to educate and practice roughly 400 individuals within the first 12 months. In addition to the training and coaching supplied, the positioning will function a location for month-to-month meetups.
BWB is “a humanitarian organization devoted to creating equitable opportunity by providing clean water, access to quality education, sustainable farming, and humanitarian support—all powered by Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies,” according to the foundation’s website.
Built With Bitcoin has accomplished a number of humanitarian initiatives earlier than, together with an training heart in South Africa in collaboration with Bitcoin Ekasi, a ferry for a faculty in El Salvador that had no entry prior to that and a nicely mission in Nigeria that supplied over 1,000 villagers with entry to clear water.
On the significance of offering training entry to the neighborhood, Nessary said, “The bedrock of any community is education — whether that be financial, health, agriculture and so on. Education is also a key to protecting vulnerable communities from bad actors and teaching people how Bitcoin can support them and their families through entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, knowledge and social empowerment.”
