Engage
IAmWITy / Girls in ICT
A Girls in ICT platform connecting girls with women in technology through a summit, mentorship and an ongoing community.
Programmes
Find your way into technology.
YCDI connects first experiences with technology to practical skills, personal development and pathways to opportunity. Through Engage, Equip and Empower, we support children and young people in schools and communities, with particular attention to underserved groups.
All programmes
Our charitable activities focus primarily on learners aged 8–18 and young people moving from the final years of school into further study and work, approximately ages 16–24. Each programme has its own age or grade range. We work primarily in Jamaica; participation elsewhere depends on the activity.
6 programmes shown
Engage
DAB Summer Camp
Dream It. Achieve It. Become It. A summer experience combining technology, strengths-based personal development and career exploration.
Equip
YCDI Clubs
A hands-on after-school digital-skills programme in a school's own computer lab, designed for Grades 4–10.
Equip
YCDI Innovation Hubs
Community-based digital learning for young people aged 15–24, combining structured bootcamps with supported opportunities to practise.
Empower
Change Agents
A leadership and work-readiness pathway for young people who build their own skills while helping others learn.
Empower
YCDI Pipeline
Building pathways from digital learning to meaningful opportunities through skills profiles, projects, industry challenges and connections to employers and further training.
Programme descriptions explain the delivery model. Dates, venues, fees, eligibility and registration arrangements are confirmed for individual cohorts and events.
Where a programme fee applies, it is a cost-recovery or subsidised contribution supporting delivery. Income is reinvested in YCDI’s charitable activities. See the specific opportunity for actual fees and conditions.
Across the programmes
Personal development and pathways
YCDI Cares
Personal development woven through YCDI learning, supporting confidence, purpose and wellbeing alongside digital skills. The overview describes strengths coaching, self-awareness, goal setting, personal branding, public speaking, personal finance and healthy-living activities. This is a cross-programme approach, not a promise of a particular commercial assessment or clinical mental-health service.
YCDI Pipeline · In development
A developing pathway connecting growing skills, portfolios, mentorship and further training with employers, internships and entrepreneurship opportunities. It is not a live job board or a guarantee of placement or skills verification.