Women in Tech: How we stay ahead

By Morenike Taire, Woman Editor

This twelvemonth GITEX, Africa’s biggest signifier for planetary tech & startup innovation expanded its planetary footprint to Nigeria, spotlighting the country’s vibrant innovation scenery and fast-growing integer economy.

In the archetypal week of September, politician Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Bosun Tijani, Minister of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy welcomed guests from each implicit the satellite arsenic Abuja and Lagos became the epicentre of West Africa’s tech gyration astatine the GITEX Nigeria Tech Expo & Future Economy Summit. Held astatine 4 antithetic venues, this lawsuit brought unneurotic planetary tech leaders, professionals, and hundreds of exhibitors to showcase innovations successful AI, fintech, cybersecurity, IoT, and more, with an unprecedented thousands of young tech enthusiasts successful attendance.

As the fig of women successful tech takes a dilatory but dependable rise. Vanguard engaged pistillate multinational firm participants connected however they support the gait arsenic good arsenic the acquisition of being successful the antheral dominated space.

Women present pushing backmost —Busayo

Busayo Akindola is Business Development Manager for a B2B multinational hardware company.

I americium presently ever successful touch with the OEMs and since I person that nonstop transportation I americium versed with the existent trends and technologies and past I usage shows and exhibitions to interaction basal and besides to stock technologies. Basically, the progressive transportation with the OEMs.

The hardware interacts with the software. We person the hardware and we person the bundle solutions, truthful we don’t person an vantage implicit bundle solution providers but much similar a partnership. In today’s world, it’s each astir digitisation truthful we are looking astatine however to alteration our situation to beryllium paperless, which is besides bully for our environment, eco friendliness.

Another 1 of the problems exertion tin lick is security. Some of our offerings are embedded successful web information solutions that assistance to support data. Anything that has to bash with printing is astir data.

As a pistillate successful the tech space, radical person ever classified the manufacture arsenic antheral but close astir present women are present pushing back. We spot women CEOs . I person been successful the tech abstraction for astir 15 years now. I wouldn’t accidental determination are truly barriers, conscionable for america to proceed to excel.

For me, nary barriers —Itohan

Itohan Itsereghe is simply a Senior Account Manager with an planetary integer platform

Keeping up I support up with technological advancements by changeless learning, changeless utilizing of the platform. The much you use, the much you are capable to tweak it. It depends connected the prompt.

Tech is not lone astir coding, we person antithetic kinds of tech. The information that you tin usage AI driven exertion puts you successful the tech space. AI has made beingness precise casual for people. Now you tin codification without fundamentally going to learn. All you request to bash is cognize the nonstop instrumentality that you privation to use, cognize the nonstop level that is needed and cognize the nonstop prompt. You conscionable request immoderate basics. You tin ask, however bash I….. Google is your friend, arsenic they say. When you enactment the close punctual you volition beryllium capable to get the close results.

We person contented services connected our platform. We don’t conscionable propulsion retired content. There are truthful galore problems successful Nigeria and we are going to springiness you bid of mind.

It’s absorbing that opportunities are present opening up for females. Some radical adjacent privation immoderate roles to beryllium for females. I don’t privation to beryllium sex biased but erstwhile a pistillate knows thing she goes each out. When a work is fixed to a female, remainder assured that you are getting results. For maine determination are nary barriers. Some organisations are intentional astir having females join  their  team.

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