Oluseun Onigbinde

Oluseun Onigbinde (born 18 September 1985) is a Nigerian entrepreneur and open data analyst, known as the co-founder and CEO of budgIT, a Nigerian civic startup. Oluseun Onigbinde is an advocate for fiscal transparency and open data. In 2012, he was awarded the Future Awards Prize for Science and Tech Innovation. Oluseun on 13 September 2019, was appointed as Technical Adviser in the Ministry of Budget and National Planning. His appointment was controversial among government critics. Quote "Connect with people that can add value to you, connect with people that can take you to your promise, share notes with them, get encouragement from them." Oluseun Onigbinde speaking at TEDxLAUTECH Our goal in the end is to see the quality of life of citizens improve through efficient service delivery. We majorly work in five key areas. One is on budget access and research. The team will break down the budget into basics, and simplify it, and make sure everyone can understand it. We also track public projects, for which we have a platform called Traackr. Then we also have institutional support. We help public institutions, media, society build and do civic products. We are like the civic infrastructure for Nigeria. We build stuff and people build on top of that. We work with four major categories of people. One is digitally active citizens. We’re more on the side of citizens and individuals than institutions, definitely. We see ourselves as a platform. Even though we’ve been a long advocate, we increasingly see ourselves as a platform. That we build solutions, data, civic infrastructure. And citizens cannot act on the basis of that infrastructure. So take action and do what they’re supposed to do. That’s what it means for us.. Interview with Oluseun Onigbinde (BudgIT) My sincere interest is to see a Nigeria that grows and optimises resources for the benefits of all Nigerians. My loyalty to the good cause of our nation, Nigeria compelled me to accept the call to provide technical skills and this experience has more than strengthened it. The key goal for us is that our work is centered on evidence. And it’s centered on data.We are not an investigative journalist platform. We just want to make sure that we continue to advocate, or demand, or build strategies for supply of public data. So that’s our first key goal. Getting public data to be held there. As much as we can find. Then also figuring out the way to build platforms to simplify and to ease the access to that level of data. So that’s what’s unique too. We are building this constellation of data, technology, and storytelling. https://whatsworkingsolutions.org/resource/interview-with-oluseun-onigbinde-budgit/ External links Category:Living people Category:1985 births Category: People from Nigeria Category: Company founders