Training 244 Young Entrepreneurs on Cybersecurity and Data Privacy
Africa's next generation of business leaders will be shaped less by whether they can access technology, and more by whether they can use it safely. That was the premise SANIFU brought to a training forum on 4 August 2025, delivered in partnership with Sheria Kiganjani as part of the Going Beyond: Partnering for a Youth-Led Future project.
About Going Beyond
Going Beyond is a four-country initiative funded by the Mastercard Foundation and delivered through Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) across Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, and Côte d'Ivoire. The project aims to reach more than 300,000 young women and men with entrepreneurial skills, mentorship, and a peer-to-peer network of support — scaling DOT's evidence-based youth-led model across the continent.
Sheria Kiganjani — one of Tanzania's leading legal technology organisations — is among the project's implementing partners, and invited SANIFU to lead the cybersecurity and data privacy component of the August forum.
The training
Two hundred and forty-four young Tanzanian entrepreneurs — running small and medium-sized businesses across sectors from retail to agriculture to services — spent the day working through practical cybersecurity and data privacy skills relevant to running a small business in a digital economy.
The session was led by Linda Kasubi, and covered how entrepreneurs can protect their businesses, their customers, and themselves — from securing mobile money accounts and recognising common scams, to understanding what data privacy means when your customers' information lives on your phone.
“"You cannot separate a young entrepreneur's ability to grow their business from their ability to protect it. In 2025 Tanzania, the same phone that runs their operations is also the surface every attacker targets. Our job as trainers is to make sure they leave knowing how to defend what they've built, with confidence." ”
“Linda Kasubi, SANIFU”
Why this partnership matters
For SANIFU, delivering the cybersecurity and data privacy component of a Mastercard Foundation-funded programme represents a validation of our approach: that inclusive technology education has to reach beyond students and into the working economy — into the shops, farms, salons, and small enterprises where most young Tanzanians actually build their livelihoods.
For the entrepreneurs in the room, the training was a starting point. Each participant left with practical skills they could apply the following morning, and access to the wider Going Beyond peer network that continues to support them long after the day itself.