Global Hackathon Series: AngelHack debut in Lagos, Nigeria this July 2018
Venue: Africa Fintech Foundry, Plot 1216, Ibiyinka Olorunbe Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria Date: 27th – 29th July, 2018 Every year, AngelHack embarks on a tour across the world for their Global Hackathon Series. Over the course of Summer 2018, they’ll be hitting…
Digital Natives Gather For UpSkilling Nigerian Youths At TechPreneurs Hangout 2018 In Abeokuta
Nigeria’s foremost Digital Content Platform, the OnlineHubNG.com on Sunday, July 15, 2018 hosted a pool of TechPreneurs and Tech Enthusiasts in and around Ogun State at the second edition of her annual #TechPreneursHangout (a special World Youth Skills Day #WYSD2018 event) at NEST by KUTA,…
[Citizens Corner] Fundamental Principles of Open Government Partnership in Nigeria
What is OGP? Open Government Partnership is an international multi-stakeholder global coalition of reformers from government and civil society, working to make government transparent, participatory and accountable, to truly serve and empower citizens. It is a platform for governments, civil society actors, and other stakeholders…
Plan to attend OnlineHubNG’s #TechPreneursHangOut in #Abeokuta (a Special #WYSD2018 Event), on Sunday, 15th July, 2018
The TechPreneurs HangOut is an annual convergence for coders, developers, programmers, graphics designers, creative curators, content writers, illustrators, digital enthusiasts, bloggers, social media handlers and tech policy makers in and around the city of Abeokuta, Ogun State and Nigeria as a whole to innovate, collaborate…
ONLINE HUB EDUCATIONAL SERVICES RECEIVES FUNDING FROM GOOGLE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME IN NIGERIA
Online Hub Educational Services has received funding from Google’s CS Educator Grants Programme for Professional Development in the delivery of Computer Science Curriculum for Secondary school teachers with experience teaching CS and other STEM discipline in the 6-Southwest States of Nigeria. With the high demand…
Learn How to Apply Machine Learning to Your Digital Marketing Strategy
As a digital marketer, have you ever created a spreadsheet containing the individual purchase history of all consumers searching for a product in your category, the time of day they’re most likely to purchase, the type of device they’re using when they last made a…
Olawale Ayilara, Oluwatobi Oyinlola, Wole Oduwole, Tobiloba Arewa, others for “GATE SUMMIT 2018” in TASUED, Ijebu Ode
Olawale Ayilara, the Executive Director/CEO of Landwey Investment Limited; Oluwatobi Oyinlola, Embedded System Engineer at rLoop Incorporated, USA; ‘Wole Oduwole, CEO of TalkGlitz Media and Tobiloba Arewa Adesanya, Creative Director, Adire World are among speakers at the maiden edition of ‘Gate Summit 2018’. …
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) process and quest for achieving the SDGs in Nigeria
by: Adam Alqali If effectively implemented, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) process will make governance more participatory, transparent and accountable in African countries like Nigeria as enshrined in Goal 16 of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Launched in September 2011 by 8…
When artificial intelligence meets human stupidity
By: Cherine Fahim, Founder and CEO, Endoxa Neuroscience From the US Government’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnology initative (BRAIN) to Google’s deep-learning artificial intelligence (AI) project, Brain; from Facebook hiring neuroscientists to work on a brain-computer interface to Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a company that aims to download your mind; or Bryan…
What fast internet can do for Employment in Africa
By: Jonas Hjort, Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University Local employment effects of fast internet connections show that ICT might be one of the most effective employment-creating policies in Africa The textbook theories we grew up with predict that freer…