The Constructed With Bitcoin Basis (BWB) has opened a brand new Bitcoin Expertise Middle in Ejisu, Ghana, a metropolis in Better Kumasi, as a legacy for the inaugural Africa Bitcoin Convention. The middle will probably be run by Ghanians, for Ghanians, based on a press launch despatched to Bitcoin Journal.
BWB Founders Ray Youssef and Yusuf Nessary plan to disclose the campus on Thursday December 8, 2022, with a tour attended by varied members of the worldwide Bitcoin group.
The primary aim of the Bitcoin Expertise Middle, based on the press launch, “is to equip the local people with expertise and information throughout the finance and expertise industries — it’s additionally supposed to construct group and foster a protected surroundings to be taught.”
Assist for the ability comes from the Edwinase group, Blockchain Basis Africa, and the Bitcoin group. Eight workers will work there, together with directors and lecturers.
The discharge detailed a few of the varied topics to be taught on the middle, together with, “Monetary literacy: understanding cash,” “Introduction to Bitcoin,” “Entrepreneurship,” “Introduction to computer systems” and “Introduction to coding.”
The power will probably be free to entry and the middle goals to coach and prepare roughly 400 individuals within the first yr. Along with the training and coaching supplied, the positioning will function a location for month-to-month meetups.
BWB is “a humanitarian group dedicated to creating equitable alternative by offering clear water, entry to high quality training, sustainable farming, and humanitarian assist—all powered by Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies,” based on the muse’s web site.
Constructed With Bitcoin has accomplished a number of humanitarian initiatives earlier than, together with an training middle in South Africa in collaboration with Bitcoin Ekasi, a ferry for a faculty in El Salvador that had no entry previous to that and a effectively venture in Nigeria that supplied over 1,000 villagers with entry to wash water.
On the significance of offering training entry to the group, Nessary said, “The bedrock of any group is training — whether or not that be monetary, well being, agriculture and so forth. Training can also be a key to defending weak communities from unhealthy actors and educating individuals how Bitcoin can assist them and their households by entrepreneurship, monetary inclusion, information and social empowerment.”
