Roadblocks to Digital Penetration in Northern Nigeria: An Experience Piece of AboCoders

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According to Equal Access International, digital technology, including the internet, has had an immeasurable impact on the lives of many across the globe. However, access to and use of technology is neither universal nor equitable. Women and girls are the most disadvantaged with economic, social, and cultural obstacles both limiting and preventing women’s access to …

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Road to Gender Equality: Recounting the Breakthroughs, Torch-lighting the Work Ahead

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The conversation around gender equality is one that has continued to be foremost on the lips of many for years and years on end. In fact, some scientists did some research on the dug-up bones of our ancestors buried thousands of years ago, to ascertain the origin of gender inequality and patriarchy, and turned up …

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The Impact of Technology on Human Development

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I have particularly wondered how people managed to survive when there was little or no technological invention in the world because I believe that technology has brought groundbreaking opportunities and experiences to people all around the world. With Technology today, people have gotten access to opportunities, made acquaintances, sealed business deals with people across seas …

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The Politicization of Ethnicity and its Effect on the Nigerian Democracy

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According to Wikipedia, tribalism is the state of being organized in, or advocating for, a tribe or tribes. Tribalism could also refer to a way of thinking or behaving, in which people are more loyal to their tribe than to their friends, their country, or any other social group. Ethnicity is a social issue associated …

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E-Voting and Possible Implementation Challenges in the Nigerian Context 

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I was an observer at the 2020 Ondo State Gubernatorial elections and asides observing what was happening during the voting process, I was also supervising a team that was analysing the voting results that was reported on the INEC portal. That process was a very belabouring one and one that didn’t need to be so. …

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Closing the Digital Gender Gap in Nigeria: What Must Be Done

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The word digital gender gap can also be referred to as digital gender divide. Plan International also calls it “technology gap”, and says that it is the difference between groups with technology and the internet and those without. Girls and women often have less access to technology and the internet compared to boys and men. …

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Aspilos Foundation receives grant funding from World Connect US to empower young women with 21st century digital skills in AboCoders academy, Kaduna, Nigeria.

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We are pleased to announce that Aspilos Foundation has been awarded a grant funding from World Connect US under the AboCoders Project to empower young women in underserved communities in Kaduna with 21st century digital skills for access to sustainable means of livelihood. In Nigeria, women are the most marginalized especially in many northern parts …

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Freedom of Information and Good Governance

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If Freedom of Information is the yardstick, what would the report card of the Nigerian government read in the slot allotted to ‘good governance’? It is safe to score the government of Nigeria zero or something in the region of abysmal when they are ranked on good governance.   To begin, in the 1992 report entitled Development in Practice – Governance, the World Bank set …

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WE ARE HIRING!

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    Aspilos Foundation is a youth led non-profit using technology & digital inclusion to drive economic growth and good governance. Our vision/destination is an Africa of young active citizens maximising opportunities to foster economic progress thereby giving rise to a poverty free continent.  Role: Project Coordinator – AboCoders  Location(s): Abeokuta and Minna  Role Overview  The Project Coordinator (PC) is …

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