About Me

I am Olawale Adefisayo Fabiyi , An Educator, Techpreneur & Strategist with. I was born and raised  in Nigeria and took up a few years in South East Asia, precisely Malaysia and Singapore to study and work.

My practical work experience span across Education, IT and Business. Currently championing the implementation of IT, infrastructure and building worldclass computer science curriculum with curricula from Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, ISC(2) Academies , as both Head of Technology and Department head of Computer Science & Technology at the American International University, West Africa, The Gambia. Hoping to bridge the divide between academia and industry

About a month ago we launched a TechEd initiative I founded called Open-Source Academy which is  focused on institutes of higher learning and centered around students, supporting and advocating the use and development of open technologies in universities and institutes of higher learning.
 I am also currently working on an initiative called HackWeakEnd which is a social initiative that uses Hackathons to brings together tech people, industry experts, stakeholders, students and enthusiasts to come up with compelling technological solutions (hardware/software) to solve ills, issues and problems plaguing societies. It is simply an initiative of using technology to “Hack” the “Weak Ends” over a Week End. These “Weak Ends” are ills, problems and issues affecting our societies.
 Since my moving back to Nigeria six years ago, I have seen the need to bridge the gap between academia and the workforce.
We all can see and feel the importance of Open Source in every walk of life and the earlier we push for its adoption, the more beneficial to our societies.

If I am elected as an affiliate board member, I will like to push more adoption of open source both in Academia and in Africa. I have seen that advocacy for Open Source in academia in Africa is little to nothing and with me coming on board  will be instrumental to achieve this. I will be able to push this as I am also an academician and hoping TechEd in Africa will grow with adoption of open source technologies and Africa as a whole.

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