If you need to define something, then pick an authoritative work, and cite it. You cannot copy from Wikipedia, and not indicate so. Even the worst paper reviewer will mention this to you.
Remember Promise, the deaf girl I met in the village? Twitter people suggested St. Louis school for the deaf and we enrolled her. Even though she never did sign language before then, she came 3rd in her class!
Akwa Ibom tech week is coming in October. I expect most of the tech big shots to be there. If you want to attend (and speak) you can drop me an email on [email protected]
So you think it's okay to hide the fact that ritual murders are happening because of some absurd beliefs? The more we expose criminality, the less it will be. Shine the light and crime will stop. I'll continue to do that, no matter how much people want to pretend it's not there.
My suggestions to the Minister of Comm Tech: @bosuntijani.
1. Nipost: Every nipost branch should become independent. Any courier/e-commerce company can pay a "space" in the branch, and once they do that, they get a seat and can receive packages. A guideline for operations is
We can solve this privately with less than N20m. Fund transport vehicles that ply all routes with dashcams and hidden cameras and document every extortion attempt. After 10-20 of the cops have been fired the matter will die down for one year. When it returns, repeat.
22,000 people have registered for @hnginternship so far. It's starting Wednesday. Of the one from last year, ~ 500 people so far have found tech jobs, and about 100 are in foreign remote jobs. And numbers keep going up.
Let's see how this one goes!
Copying a definition without citation is plagiarism. Those are not her words - they are taken from some other source. The source needs to be indicated, otherwise she is passing off someone else's work as hers.
Make it a tech business networking space. Every tech business can rent one chair, which they can use anytime they are in Abuja. Have weekly Demo's of new startups there (Startup Friday). All "chair renters" can come in to listen to pitches. Like a central point for early stage
One thing I have noticed with our training programs: Nigeria has way less female backend coders than Kenya. The majority of good female coders are from Kenya.