Africa will not become great by importing systems.
Africa will become great by engineering its own future — starting with its youth.
Forge Intellitech is an African technology and education company built around a single, deliberate conviction.
We do not run short-term digital trainings.
We build long-term capability pipelines that prepare young Africans to design, build and govern the digital infrastructure of their own societies.
Our work begins with young people — but it is designed for national scale.
The quiet advantage behind real African transformation
There is a pattern we have studied deeply.
Most innovation programmes in Africa focus on: tools, hackathons and isolated success stories.
Forge focuses on something far more strategic:
How a nation builds human infrastructure.
Our "secret" is not technology. It is how we intentionally design:
...into one connected system.
We start with youth because:
Every sustainable digital economy is first a youth capability economy.
And we start in Africa because:
Solutions that do not grow from African realities rarely scale across African realities.
Two Tightly Integrated Pillars
Forge operates across education and infrastructure — and they reinforce each other.
1. Education & National Talent Pipelines
Through TechUp and LaunchPad, we design structured, in-school digital capability programmes that move students from foundational literacy to real innovation, enterprise and employability.
2. Applied Digital Infrastructure Platforms
Through products such as Bitebank and Trego, we build real-world systems in food, mobility and community services that reflect African behaviour, infrastructure and constraints.
Our platforms are not side projects. They are living laboratories where young people learn how digital systems operate in real markets.
Education and infrastructure reinforce each other. That is the architecture.
TechUp — Our Core Delivery Engine
TechUp is a structured, school-embedded digital education programme for:
- •Junior Secondary School students
- •Senior Secondary School students
Designed to align directly with:
- •National education priorities
- •Youth employment strategies
- •Digital economy transformation agendas
TechUp develops students not as passive users of technology, but as: builders of systems, designers of solutions and leaders of innovation.
A Foundation That Institutions Can Trust
Across both Junior and Senior Secondary levels, TechUp embeds a compulsory national relevance layer.
Digital Ethics & Cyber Citizenship
Students are taught:
- Responsible digital behaviour and online conduct
- Personal data protection and privacy awareness
- Cyber safety and identity protection
- Ethical use of digital tools and artificial intelligence
- Digital rights, responsibilities and online accountability
Nigerian Cybercrimes Act (2015)
They learn the purpose and practical implications of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015 including:
- Impersonation and identity theft
- Online fraud and digital scams
- Unauthorised system access
- Cyber harassment and digital misconduct
- Civic and legal responsibilities of young digital citizens
This ensures TechUp produces digitally capable students who also understand: law, governance and civic responsibility in the digital economy.
A National Skills Pipeline — Not Fragmented Training
TechUp is structured deliberately in two stages.
Junior Secondary
Broad foundation for every learner
All students pass through:
- •Design and creative thinking
- •Basic web creation
- •Logical and computational thinking
- •Data and information literacy
- •Collaboration and digital productivity
- •Safety and cyber citizenship
- •Optional hardware and making
This stage builds confidence, exposure and curiosity.
No early specialisation. No elite filtering. Every learner is included.
Senior Secondary
Structured specialisation
Students select one professional pathway:
Technology creators and system developers
Product thinkers and founders-in-training
Designers, communicators and digital influence builders
These three pathways reflect how real digital products and institutions are built.
Students work in mixed teams to design, validate, build and present real solutions.
LaunchPad
Forge's LaunchPad programme identifies outstanding Senior Secondary students and supports them to:
This creates a continuous pathway from:
School → Skills → Innovation → Enterprise
What Makes Forge Different
We are not like typical digital skills initiatives.
Institutional & Government Alignment
Forge designs all programmes to integrate with:
We actively support:
- Teacher enablement and classroom delivery support
- Curriculum co-design with schools and education authorities
- Facilitator certification and quality assurance
- School-based innovation ecosystems
Our model is designed for replication across: local government areas, states and national programmes.
Monitoring, Evaluation & Accountability
Forge applies structured monitoring and learning systems to ensure outcomes are measurable and verifiable.
Our evaluation framework tracks:
This allows public partners and donors to clearly see: what is changing and why it is changing.
Designed for Inclusion
Forge programmes are designed for:
- Low to mid-resource school environments
- Mixed connectivity conditions
- Low-cost devices
- Offline and hybrid delivery where required
Strict Safeguarding Standards
We operate strict safeguarding standards for:
- Digital platforms
- Student online presence
- Professional account creation
- Project collaboration environments
Inclusion is not a slogan in our work. It is a delivery constraint.
From School to the Real Economy
By the final year of Senior Secondary School, TechUp students are required to maintain:
Professional LinkedIn Profile
Complete profile with pathway alignment and project portfolio
Digital/Freelancing Platform Profile
At least one approved platform with services listed
This introduces students early to:
This is how TechUp moves learners from education to opportunity.
Building Pan-African Youth Capability Infrastructure
Nigeria is our starting point — not our limit.
Our systems are designed to scale across African school systems, public institutions and community programmes.
We are building the people who will later build:
Organisations We Have Partnered With
We work closely with public institutions and community-driven organisations to deliver sustainable impact.
Ikosi-Isheri Local Government
PAD A Girl Movement
APC Women in Governance – Shomolu Chapter
The People Behind Forge
Forge is led by practitioners who combine technology delivery, youth development and institutional strategy.
Adeniyi Moxie
Founder & CEO
A systems builder focused on turning African potential into scalable digital infrastructure and institutional capability.
Adeola Oyewoler
Chairman
A strategic leader committed to strengthening African-led institutions and long-term youth empowerment.
Our leadership is focused on one outcome: building systems that outlive individuals.
Six Operating Principles
We are guided by these core principles in everything we do.
Ubuntu
"I am because we are"
Community impact defines success.
Excellence
"World-class, homegrown"
Global standards, African context.
Integrity
"Trust as foundation"
Transparency and accountability at every level.
Innovation
"Solutions from within"
Designed from lived African realities.
Persistence
"Building for generations"
We build infrastructure, not headlines.
Accessibility
"Technology for everyone"
Reach and inclusion drive design decisions.
Forge Intellitech exists to ensure that the next generation of Africans do not only consume digital systems.
They design them.
They build them.
They govern them.
Africa's future will not be imported.
It will be forged.
Ready to build Africa's digital future?
We welcome institutions, governments and organisations who share our vision. Whether you want to bring TechUp to your schools, sponsor our initiatives, or collaborate on national digital capacity — there's a place for you.