Helping to grow the Nigerian Tech Ecosystem - A call to the big local tech companies

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Hope it is OK to “join the 2-man convo” between @PapaOlabode and @sprime

So here are my 2 cents.

@PapaOlabode

What our education institutions can instead do is provide the incentives and ways to make above resources available to the prospective Nigerian developer/student. Not even in a big way like Stanford/ YC combination, but little but deliberate steps like incorporating those resources in class lectures, assignments, exam questions etc.

• Most Nigerian schools are just there to teach the archaic curriculum. it is difficult getting lecturers who do not understand the latest technology to teach it to undergrads. A better approach is for corporates and startups with vested interest in such talents to get them early via extra curricular activities. Google is getting it right via its GDG and ambassadors programme. Interswitch has that opportunity too. @PapaOlabode will remember the Interswitch’s certification course

What do you think about the Interswitch Payment Certification Program?

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They should forget charging people arms and leg for learning about their API and focus on teaching this curriculum free of charge on campuses.

• There is almost no “existent” business model teaching people for free apart from what Switch and Adela are doing. Maybe finding a proposition to justify the investment might be a win-win. Any ideas in this regard are welcome.