“In 2000, I founded Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF) with a very simple, but powerful vision: to bridge the digital divide between youth living and going to school in Nigeria and their digital peers living in the U.S. YTF was founded shortly after the Internet bubble and the dot com era, it was difficult to gain buy-in to the vision and the term Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) was nascent. Access to information was available via a personal computer (PC) and companies, like Microsoft, trumpeted their vision of access to information at ‘any place’, ‘any time’ and on ‘any device’.
In recent years, Africa has become a testing ground for breakthrough ideas, innovative high-tech products and disruptive startups.”
