I Have Moved

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Though this is coming early on our journey together, but kindly note that my subsequent stories will now be posted on 

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My First DevFest

My first DevFest was in the year 2013. I just recently discovered Google Alert. So in trying it out, I put in an alert for 'Google event'. Due to my habit of sleeping late, I was up that night and saw an alert for a Google event in Ife for the same day.

I was surprised. How can there be a Google event in Ile-Ife without me knowing about it. So I probe further and saw it was DevFest Ife. I tried registering for the event, but the form was closed.

Hmmmm... what do i do now? I just did some thinking, that since previous events I had attended where in the AITI Lab in my schools computer building, this will not be different. I checked the time for the event that day and tried my luck.

Lo and behold, I was right. Thank God I was allowed for the event without pre registering. Even though most of what was discussed that day were totally new to me, I did not give up. Fortunately for me I got a branded Google t-shirt and two food pack home that day. Lol

My First Tech Event

So because I was not a speaker at the just concluded DevFestsw that held in Ibadan exactly seven days ago, I couldn't share my story like every other speaker did. But I am using this platform to tell my own story.

I was in my 200 level in the university as a pure science student. On this day, i tried logging in to the schools wifi so i can access the internet. On the schools portal, once you are connected, you are redirected to another page where you see ads of events in the university community.

One of the events banner I saw was by #NACOSS OAU. As it is done with every department in the university, there is usually a week for events organised by the students association of each department. I guess because they were computer science students, so they had access to this platform.

I simply took note of the date and time of the event. It was very unusual for a non student of a particular department to attend events by another department. But nonetheless, I made it there. More reason why I was initially not allowed to fill the form at the entrance to allow me in because I was not a computer science student and not even from the faculty of technology. I was from the department of microbiology, in the faculty of science. I guess providence prevailed and I was allowed in after registering.

That singular event was my first time in any tech event in my university. It was a #web clinic. I couldn't flow with every activity at the web clinic, but I sure learnt some new things. I also took an online web academy exam that we were introduced to at the event. I met new people and that event marked the beginning of my journey on the internet and online technologies.

I have since then published an ebook on #digital literacy to help young #Nigerians understand the power of the internet and how they can maximise it for there good. I have also taken part in training people in adopting online technologies, helped #smes using different platforms understand how they can position their business for growth online. I am still scaling and grateful for the organizers of that event.