CEO, BudgIT, Oluseun Onigbinde features at 'Young People Speak' - First Youth Intellectual Platform to foster deep conversations about Nationhood.

Oluseun Onigbinde will be speaking at ‘Young People Speak’ Intellectual stimulating event where #Dreams4MyFatherLand will be shared and Ideas on how an #IdealNation be managed and sustained will be espoused

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Oluseun Onigbinde is a Nigerian entrepreneur and open data analyst popularly known as the co-founder and CEO of BudgIT, a Nigerian civic startup. Oluseun Onigbinde is a fiscal transparency advocate and firm believer in the power of Open Data. In 2012, he was awarded the Future Awards Prize for Science and Tech Innovation.

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Oluseun was born in Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria. He was raised a Baptist in Ibadan, attending Agodi Baptist Church. His family later mvoed to Christ Apostolic Church, Agbala Itura, where they attend till date. He had his primary and secondary school education in Ibadan. The prestigious Loyola College, Ibadan where he excelled in the sciences. He scored nine distinctions in his West African Examinations Council’s exam, earning the best result of the 2001 set.

Oluseun attended the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta where he obtained a bachelor of engineering (B.Eng.) in Electrical/Electronics Engineering and the Stanford university graduate school of business where he completed the executive program in social entrepreneurship.

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Before BudgIT, Seun had always wanted to work in the financial industry. For NYSC, he was posted to Benin City where he got a job at Access bank. He later joined First Bank for a period of three and half years. It was while he was working at First Bank that he got the idea for BudgIT. According to him, his interest in banking was from the strategy angle, a space where he could contribute his ideas.

In 2011, Oluseun Onigbinde and Joseph Agunbiade formed a team during a hackathon held at the Co-Creation Hub. It was here that he came up with the idea for a need to publicize government spending to the general public, leading to the startup BudgIT. In 2014, the Omidyar Network invested $400,000 in BudgIT; this has always been listed on their website. In June 2015, the Kaduna State government under the administration of Mallam El-Rufai, signed BudgIT to build Open Budget mobile portal similar to the Buharimeter; a platform which was bulit by BudgIT for Center for Democracy and Development to hold President Buhari accountable for his campaign promises. In January 2017, BudgIT raised an additional $3 million grant from Omidyar Network and Gates Foundation. In February 2016, Oluseun Onigbinde was honoured to make a presentation the Chatham House under the African Project on issue of accountability and governance.

Onigbinde has always been a big believer in data-driven journalism and partcipated a health journalism project as part of the Knight Innovation Fellowship of the International Center for Journalists. In 2014, BudgIT launched Tracka, a project tracking tool.

Onigbinde has been a recipient of the following awards: Ashoka Fellowship for Global Entrepreneurs, the Future Awards, 2012, World Summit Youth Award, Knight International Journalism Fellow/ International Center for Journalists, Harambe Fellowship (Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance), 2016 Aspen New Voices Fellowship and 2016 Draper Hills Summer Fellowship, Stanford University (Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of the Law).

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Young People Speak is a gathering of Young People, Youths and Young Adults aimed at fostering deep conversations about our concept of Nationhood, our Concept of Servitude and our Concept of Leadership. Through Young People Speak, we want to foster a mentality and paradigm shift of ‘SELFLESS SERVICE’ amongst our Youths.

Young People Speak will strictly feature credible Young Nigerians that have established themselves either in Business or Career.

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This event will take place on May 29, 2017 at the University of Lagos from 10:00am. Registration is COMPULSORY.