News and stories from the fata archive, in publication order.
Fata joined 22 student teams for a night of coding, creativity, and collaboration at The Co-Operative University of Kenya All-Nighter. The event gave students a hands-on opportunity to discover Fata, strengthen their coding skills, and build innovative solutions together.
On July 25, 2026, 25 participants joined our team at Elitech Academy to discover web development, try things out, ask questions and practise together.
On July 18, 2026, our team joined the 10.000 Codeurs forum in Benin to introduce fata, run an on-site challenge and celebrate LinkedIn Challenge award recipients.
Training participants, recognizing their achievements, and preparing balanced teams: for the MIABE Hackathon 2026, we supported the organizers well before the projects began.
With GDG Nairobi, we offered a challenge to keep learning after DevFest. During the challenge, 298 participants practised on fata, followed by a prize gathering in December.
In Pretoria, the fata challenge led up to DevFest, where prizes were presented on November 22, 2025, bringing learners into the developer community’s gathering.
On November 1, 2025, our collaboration with GDG Accra continued with a prize ceremony at Chubo Restaurant. The challenge had brought together 297 participants, including 287 who practised on fata.
We invited a panel of personalities committed to Guinean youth to hear their thoughts on how digital training can be improved.
We were impressed by the dynamism, vision and collaboration of both the teaching team and their students.
Women represent 50% of the world population: we cannot build the world economy without half of the population!
One of the reasons we created FATA is the realization that we can create much more effective and engaging training programs in software development by putting into practice the key discoveries of learning sciences.
We launched FATA in Guinea with several events. We want to express our gratitude to all the people we had the privilege to meet and acknowledge their generous support of the FATA initiative.
Aminata Fofana is a very dynamic young woman whose entusiasm and determination are contagious. She might just be 21 years old, but she’s already been a female and children rights’ activist for seven years.
« I want to create a programming school for women in Guinea and work in Silicon Valley! »
We had to do our own data collection because Guinean software developers are severely under represented in existing studies of training needs.
Ibrahima wants to send an important message: the best possible gain is knowledge, don’t give up and keep learning.
In this post I want to focus on telling you about the tools I discovered while building FATA.school and how they made me about twice as productive.
We're organizing a free contest open to all guinean mens and women from May 1st to May 31st. The winner will get a Lenovo Duet Chromebook.
Did you know that the world record for female entrepreneurship is held by the African continent? Almost one third of entrepreneurs (27%) in Africa are women, despite the fact that most...
Looking back at the proposed partnership between FATA and the MARI BRA DEV school in Bintourayah, Guinea.
