Oladiwura Oladepo

Oladiwura Oladepo ( born June 29,1991 in Ibadan,Nigeria) is the Executive Director and Co-Founder at Technology for Social Change and Development Initiative (Tech4Dev), a non-profit enterprise that creates access to decent work and entrepreneurship opportunities and platforms for Africans through digital skills empowerment and advocacy. Quotes “People have deep-rooted gender biases that they are sometimes not even aware of.” ** https://som.yale.edu/profile/oladiwura-diwura-oladepo-18 “What makes you happy at the end of the day in the nonprofit space is not earning millions of dollars, or Naira,” she says. “Fulfillment comes from seeing a woman learn a skill and use that skill to get a job—changing that woman’s life, the life of her family, and bringing prosperity to her immediate community.” https://som.yale.edu/profile/oladiwura-diwura-oladepo-18 I wanted to be an entrepreneur because it would allow me to make critical decisions, implement them, and more importantly, to make a difference.” https://som.yale.edu/profile/oladiwura-diwura-oladepo-18] “The dream was to solve the world’s greatest problems using technology, we thought about technology as being an enabler, as giving people access to opportunities.” https://som.yale.edu/profile/oladiwura-diwura-oladepo-18 “Technology is one of very few sectors in Africa where there is no nepotism, It’s not, ‘Oh, my cousin needs a job. Can you help?’ Tech is strictly merit based. If you’re good at what you do, that charts a course for you.” https://som.yale.edu/profile/oladiwura-diwura-oladepo-18 External link Category: Living people Category:Women born in the 1990s