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Social Hackers Academy runs its operations out of a co-working space in downtown Athens.

This Afghan ‘computer nerd’ learned to code in a Greek program for refugees. He says it was ‘life-changing.’

Technology

Social Hackers Academy, an Athens-based nonprofit, tries to equip migrants, refugees and long-term unemployed people with on-demand, computer programming skills. 

What if Mondrian Were a Programmer?

Arts, Culture & Media
Israeli tenth-graders are learning cyber security skills. The military won't allow photos that show their faces because many of them may later be recruited to Israel's version of the NSA.

Israel teaches cybersecurity skills to its high schoolers

Education
More than a thousand Macintosh computer screens light up 42's open work spaces where students are given assignments.

At France’s new school for coders, there’s hot tech, little teaching, no grades or tuition — and loud critics

Environment
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