Gebeya Announces Partnership With BIT Foundation to Empower and Connect African Talents

Gebeya Inc., a Pan-African marketplace for freelance professional talent, has announced a new relationship with the Blacks In Technology (BIT) Foundation, a global community that provides training, networking, and mentorship services to Africans working in the technology area.

By serving as a connecting channel for a global professional network and freelancing marketplace, our alliance will handle both the demand and supply sides of qualified IT professionals. Software engineering talent from the BIT network will be able to go through Gebeya’s verification processes and have immediate access to a variety of perks, including internationally recognized upskilling programs and career prospects. Gebeya, meanwhile, will quadruple its pool of talent for its marketplace and extend its client base to connect them with hiring organizations across the globe.

The exponential rise of the tech industry, as well as such purpose-driven collaborations, pave the way for the global realization of a larger picture for Black professionals. The disproportionate employment of Black Americans in the United States (more than 6%), as well as the rising unemployment in African countries with the highest ecosystems, including a severe shortage of experienced and senior-level tech talent across Africa, are compelling reasons to tap into the talents of people of African descent.

By harnessing African talent and developing a widespread network that connects them to companies trying to bridge the gap on racial imbalance, our cooperation will play a vital role in tackling the continent’s digital sector and employment concerns in a sustainable way.   Furthermore, the establishment of this essential cooperation will be beneficial in terms of connecting people inextricably linked in culture, language, and creativity to work together and support one another.

“We believe that forming a coalition between our organizations will result in faster, more powerful, and more effective results, especially today,” says Amadou Daffe, CEO and Co-founder of Gebeya. “Strong relationships between organizations with similar goals are critical in unleashing African talents and bridging the supply and demand gap in Africa and the Americas,” he added.

Gebeya plans to expand its capacity and connect its diaspora freelancers with African-Americans, Caribbeans, and freshly migrated Africans. The BIT worldwide community, which includes over 17,000 African-Americans from five continents, will join Gebeya’s Pan-African network of computer professionals, which is scheduled to reach 1 million by the end of the year.