The More Women in Tech Fellowship offers free two-week fellowship will equip women across Africa to use generative AI to build products, improve businesses and create smarter ways of working
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how people work, build businesses and solve problems. But for many women across Africa, access to practical AI education and opportunities to apply those skills remains limited. As AI adoption accelerates across industries, the gap is no longer simply about access to technology, but access to the skills and confidence to use it effectively.
Across Africa, women are building businesses, leading teams and solving problems in their communities, yet many have had limited opportunities to learn how AI can support the work they are already doing. The More Women in Tech Fellowship is designed to close that practical gap by giving participants the opportunity to experiment, build and apply AI to something real. Rather than waiting for AI to reshape their work, participants will learn how to actively shape what AI can help them create.
More Techies, an African technology education and learning community, is tackling that gap with the launch of the More Women in Tech AI Fellowship, a free two-week programme designed to equip 300 African women with practical generative AI skills they can immediately apply to their work, businesses, ideas and communities.
The More Women in Tech Fellowship will take place from 2–13 November 2026, with applications open until 25 October 2026.
Rather than focusing solely on learning how to use AI tools, the fellowship is designed around building with AI.
Participants will learn how to use tools including ChatGPT and Claude, explore AI-powered content and video creation, and apply AI to develop a practical project of their own. This could include an early-stage product or MVP, an internal business system, an automation, a new service, or another solution to a real problem they are trying to solve.
“We don’t want women to leave this fellowship knowing 20 AI tools but still wondering what to do with them,” said Joy Eneghalu, founder of More Techies. “The goal is to move from ‘I know about AI’ to ‘I can use AI to build something that matters to me.’”
The fellowship is open to women across Africa, with participants welcome from countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa and beyond.
More Techies is particularly interested in reaching women who may already have a business, career, community initiative, idea or professional challenge but have not yet had the opportunity to explore what AI could make possible.
From AI awareness to AI action
The programme reflects a growing shift in technology education: from simply teaching people about emerging technologies to helping them apply those technologies to real problems.
For More Techies, that distinction is central to the fellowship.
Participants will bring their own project, business or problem to the programme and develop it throughout the fellowship using the AI skills they learn. More Techies will provide the learning environment, tools, guidance and community, while participants remain responsible for identifying the problem or opportunity they want to work on.
The result is intended to be more than a certificate or completed training programme.
It is an opportunity for 300 women to leave with greater AI capability and something tangible they have started building.
Building Africa’s AI capacity, one practical project at a time
The More Women in Tech Fellowship forms part of More Techies’ wider commitment to increasing practical technology skills across Africa.
Since its establishment, More Techies has trained thousands of people across its learning programmes and community, with a particular focus on making emerging technology more accessible to African learners.
The fellowship extends that work by creating a dedicated opportunity for women to explore AI not only as users, but as builders, problem-solvers and creators.
Applications for the 300 fellowship places close on 25 October 2026, with the fellowship running from 2–13 November 2026.
Applications: moretechies.co/more-women-in-tech
About More Techies
More Techies is an African technology education and learning community focused on helping people develop practical digital and AI skills. Through training, fellowships and community-led programmes, More Techies creates opportunities for people to learn emerging technologies and apply them to real-world problems.
