A coding institute,
built on real work.
EkoHacks teaches employable software engineering and widens access to digital skills in the places the industry rarely reaches.
Grassroots, in Nigeria
Where it began
EkoHacks began in Lagos, teaching people to code while building and shipping software for real clients. The teaching and the building were never separate, they were the same work.
That is where the curriculum comes from, real engineering taught the way it is practised, and tested on real projects before it was ever a course.
From Lagos to Alexandroupolis
- The beginningLagos, Nigeria
Teaching and shipping
The first cohorts, and the first software shipped for real clients.
- Along the wayOpen source
We built our own tools
Our own open source stack, Ekolite and Ekoflow, built to run on modest machines.
- NowGreece and Europe
Civic technology, shipping
Open source membership and organising platforms on CiviCRM, for civil society and public institutions.
- NowEvros, GreeceLaunching now
Launching the dojo in Greece
Our first European cohort, on the cross border with Bulgaria and Türkiye, building one real product for the community.
- NextThe Balkans and AfricaWhere we are heading
A growing institute
More cohorts, more teachers, and new places across the Balkans and back to Africa.
Ekolite, our open source engine
A real time backend for data driven apps, in around 820 lines of TypeScript.
Fastify, MongoDB and WebSocket, with typed pub sub, RPC methods and file uploads, written and maintained in house.
Built the way we teach, tested without mocks, with a Mini DDP protocol inspired by Meteor, and open source under the MIT licence.
Software and skills for the public good
What we are building
The model is proven, open, and built to travel, so every new cohort leaves more skilled developers and more software a community can run.
Reaching wherever opportunity is scarce, one community at a time.
