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Doctoral Student @ MIT
Senior Writer @ TechCabal
Creative Director @ Thalia Bespoke Nigeria
Senior Digital Communications Analyst @ Oando Plc
Educator @ Covenant University
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International Criminal and Human Rights Lawyer
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Top answers from some of our sessions.
Thank you for the compliment.
I'm still learning and growing in my field. This is actually a really good question because this has technically been my experience.
The answer is yes. For me, I never actually got any official software engineering degree. I studied electrical engineering in both undergrad and graduate school but just before I wrapped up my undergraduate degree, I got an interest in software engineering. I felt it was too late to make an official change, especially because it was my last semester so I started learning how to use a programming language on my own.
Through books, tutorials, online coding camps etc., I learned and used programming to create basic applications and like I mentioned in my answer to the previous question, I made sure to market that as a skill that I had. This is how my software engineering journey began.
So, not to sound cliche but if you put your mind to it, you can. Don't go into it thinking it won't be difficult because it most likely would be. It might be really difficult but if you truly know what you want to get out of it and you set that goal in mind, you can motivate yourself (and have a good support system motivating you as well) to put in the work that is necessary to make the ''zero experience'' obsolete
Bimpe Ogunmoyero
Design Engineer @ Intel Corporation
The African Commission in recent years have been doing enormous work to enable Africans understand their digital rights mostly through its yearly ordinary sessions which is mostly done in synergy with NGOs. A quick reference could be made to the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS) in Banjul the Gambia , Digital Rights featured prominently at the African Commission on Human and people's rights 68th session. You can equally check on the outcome of the 69th session of the African Commission, issues relating to Privacy where seriously death with at the 62nd session etc etc ...
Arrey Ojong Collins
International Criminal and Human Rights Lawyer
Hi Opeyemi, I'd recommend Wild Fusions; I think they are the best digital agency in Nigeria and have a good balance of expertise and creativity. Anakle is a close second, definitely with a more creative and daring element, but both great places to gain experience and work with some really bright minds. Sure thing! I'm @ToyinJolapamo on Twitter and Instagram. LinkedIn is my name.
Toyin Jolapamo
Senior Digital Communications Analyst @ Oando Plc
Computer Science is within the School of Engineering and is widely considered an engineering major. It is also quite related to Electrical Engineering in regards to subject matter, and because my concentrations in both degrees were related it was a natural transition, and many of my undergraduate courses counted for credit towards my master's degree. Specifically, my undergraduate degree was concentrated in artificial intelligence (focused on visual and audio processing), and my master's degree was concentrated in signal processing (also focused on visual and audio processing).
Ifueko Igbinedion
Doctoral Student @ MIT
Hi Peter, I think your positioning statement needs to take into account making your product seem meaningful and appealing to your niche audience. You want to focus on how the product/service appeals to them, and what makes your service/product stand out. Also think about your brands identity, values and your vision.
Toyin Jolapamo
Senior Digital Communications Analyst @ Oando Plc
I think these social media tech giants are right because at law; where ever there is a right , there is an obligation. Though there is enormous efforts by stake holders in recent years to protect freedom of expression online and offline every one (digital citizens inclusive) owe each other the obligation not to abuse these rights .
For instance defamation; with the advent and impact of the internet, and particularly social media networks, it is easier than ever to publish content to a very wide audience in no time . Therefore article 17 of the ICCPR provides for the protection against unlawful attacks on a person's honour and reputation as section 19(3) of same ICCPR equally makes reference to the rights and reputation of others as a legitimate ground of limitation of these rights of freedom of expression.
Reputation is the underlying basis in any claim of defamation or libel .
Most countries have domestic legislations with varying consequences relating to acts that constitute defamation and libel .
Other acts that may limit these rights are; breach of Privacy ; Harrasment(cyber bullying) and hate speech.
Not all speech is protected under international law and some form of speeches are required to be prohibited by states. For example; Article 20 of the ICCPR provides as follows;
(1) Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law .
(2) Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to descrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law .
Reference could equally be made to Article 4 of the International Convention on all forms of Racial Discrimination requires that ; the dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred as well as acts of violence or incitement to such acts against any race or group of persons of another colour or ethnicity must be declared an offence punishable by law .
Hate Speech provisions under international law is distinguished under 3 different categories which is as follows ;
(1) that which must be respected.
(2) that which may be restricted
(2) that which is lawful and subject to protection.
Arrey Ojong Collins
International Criminal and Human Rights Lawyer
At the early stage, valuation is more an art than a science, first both sides have to want to do the deal, then is there an intersection between my maximum and their own minimum valuation, if there is then we do a deal, otherwise I try to connect them to later stage investors or we revisit when the company has made enough progress to get the valuation they want.
Another contrarian viewpoint, I don't think many companies that get started are venture backable, they may make good profitable software businesses but only 2-3% of software or tech-enabled businesses are venture backable. It's a function of how big the company can be from a revenue standpoint (at a minimum $25m/yr), which is a function of how big the market is ($100m+/yr and growing) and fast you can capture the market i.e. an adequate distribution strategy for the product offering.
For now, I am biased towards B2B & B2B2C offerings - consumer African startups have struggled to scale cost-effectively so we are looking for businesses that can leverage commercial / distribution partnerships to scale.
Yele Bademosi
Investor @ Microtraction
Sir Toby, great to read from you. Your wonderful well coined words say more. With all honesty, as the saying goes: everyone, everything have its place in this world we live in.I personally mostly bring back my momentum by listening to motivational speakers. I will say, Entrepreneurs should be very INTENTIONAL in every action taken both for life and for business. Listening to a motivational speaker doesn't help you solve the hard problems before you. They MOTIVATE you to hold on, think harder, ask if need be and keep pushing upward. Entrepreneurs, don't allow everyone be your cup of tea. As you pipe up or down you client search, so should you pipe down the motivations you listen to daily.
Dr. Mofor Clementine Cendoh
Personal Brand Therapist | Bus Consultant | Relationship Counsellor | Content Creator @ NEST Consolidated
Fortunately, some large tech companies have begun to democratize access to compute and offer free cloud services. I would check out Google Colaboratory that offers free GPU/TPU access to train models.There's no specific rule for determining what real-life problems can be solved with AI, if you have sufficient data and a solid understanding of what models can be used to solve the problem, then you can test it out!
Chinasa T. Okolo
Managing Director & Computer Science PhD Student @ The Diasporic Group & Cornell University
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