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Africa NXT 2022 Session: Conquering Poverty with Tech
Can technology narrow the financial inequities between men and women? Can technology lift women and other marginalised groups out of poverty? These were the main questions that the Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) were seeking to explore at the panel...
Reading Check
Hello fellow reader! Notice that I already assume that you love to read. Why? Well, because you are reading a blog, especially in an age that many internet users have moved on to consuming mostly video content. How is your reading life? I wrote about my 2021 in books...
Women, March into Your Power!
This month is International Women's Month and International Women's Day (on March 8). All round it's a time to celebrate women and bring to the fore the discussions about reducing and eliminating gender-based inequalities. The theme for this year's International...
Just Start!
I came across two quotes recently that resonated so deeply with me. The first, which I shared on my Instagram feed was "You'll never be 100% ready. Just start." I believe this wholeheartedly and this is the story of how I started my social entrepreneurship journey,...
Ore Reads: A Conspiracy of Ravens
You know the saying about "what you are looking for in Sokoto, you found in your sokoto"? Well, for the non-Nigerians among us: Sokoto is a state and city in northern Nigeria and from city of Lagos, where I reside, it's as far north as you can imagine. The word...
Changing the Narrative: Nigerian Women in Tech
In the Beginning: I started working in the “gender and tech space” (if you can imagine that such a space exists) in 2001. For a few years before that, especially once I started my Masters programme in Information Systems, I had been aware of the lack of women using...
Previous Blogs:
- Ms Oreoluwa (2018 – 2021): msoreoluwa.wordpress.com
- Ore’s Notes (2005 – 2012): orenotes.blogspot.com
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