Meet our Top 50 Thriving Female Founder for 2019 Edition
Emma Dicks is a social entrepreneur whose work seeks to bridge the learning divide within the developing world and equip young people with the skills they need to actively participate in the global tech economy.
Emma is the co-founder of CodeSpace, a tech education startup that connects excellent African talent with the skills and work opportunities they need to contribute to the global tech industry. CodeSpace Academy offers training that takes a young person from zero coding knowledge to employment in the IT sector, as well as a suite of high school courses that supplement the national curriculum with critical coding and robotics skills. As part of CodeSpace mission to increase gender, racial and socio-economic diversity in the tech industry, Emma runs Code for Cape Town, a prestigious community of young women tech leaders.
Emma's work has received global acclaim from Fortune's Most Power Women's network, Google, The Shuttleworth Foundation, Mail & Guardian and HM the Queen who presented Emma with the Queen’s Young Leader Award in 2015.