Three ways in

Governments & institutions

Co-designing with the state, not selling to it

What it looks like. Kabakoo builds upskilling into delivery channels governments already run, under joint governance. The playbooks and datasets that come out are portable and openly shareable across geographies. The signed Mali convention is the working model.

Live examples. The MCENMA convention, signed 31 January 2026 in Bamako with Mali's Ministry for the Digital Economy, runs three years with a 12-member joint steering committee that evaluates results quarterly. Targets in the signed text: 5,000 youth by end-2026, 10,000 by December 2027, 20,000 in 2028, plus a minimum 10-hectare land commitment for a future Highdigenous eco-campus, and joint studies of digital's impact on the economy. In August 2026 the program went live under the authority of the Prime Minister, with the Minister's enrollment call recorded for national broadcast on ORTM and Kabakoo on the front page of L'Essor, the state-owned daily.

Delivered before that: a cohort for youth from Malian civil-society organizations with the EU Delegation, the D-CLIC program with OIF, and an 18-month digital transformation of the CFPM Missabougou, a major TVET center in Mali, with LuxDev, 300+ interactive videos and three digitized tracks, with the apps live.

Why governments open the door. The route into these mandates runs through the labs. They build both the expertise and the legitimacy we need to work with public and national bodies on upskilling programs rooted in local value chains.