Olusola Owonikoko, Executive Director, Project Enable Africa will be speaking at Social Impact Tech Summit 2025!
Olusola works at the intersection of inclusion, development, and business. He has over a decade of experience in building organisations, designing & implementing social impact programs/products targeted at promoting development outcomes for underserved populations, especially persons with disabilities; and has worked with several notable brands in the private/public/civil society sectors.
His flagship initiative, Project Enable Africa, promotes digital inclusion, advocacy & access to assistive technologies for persons with disabilities and sets up the first inclusion hub in Nigeria to train talents with disabilities & connect them to economic opportunities.
In 2015, following a question he asked President Barack Obama during a Presidential Townhall meeting, he was invited to the White House. He has since spoken at several international conferences, including the UN Conferences; African Eye Festival, UK; & International ICT4D Conference, Uganda. His public engagement goal is to promote African-led development, inclusion, & innovation; positioning the continent to harness its demographic dividends.
He holds a Master’s degree in Globalisation, Business & Development from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. And Certificates in Social Epidemiology, Entrepreneurship, & Civic Leadership from Harvard School of Public Health, University of Maryland, & Wagner College, respectively.
He volunteers as the President of the U.S. Consulate Carrington Fellowship program; and a member of the World Bank’s S4YE Youth Advisory Group.
2023/2020/2017 – 3X Winner, U.S. State Department AEIFunds
2022 – Obama Foundation Scholar at Columbia University
2022 – Winner, Active Citizen’s Award for Disability Empowerment, BudgIT Foundation
2021 – Finalist, UK Study Global Social Impact Award
2020 – Recipient, Royal African Youth Leadership Award of the Ooni of Ife
2019 – IE University Social Innovator, Spain
2018 – Winner, Google Impact Challenge Funds
2017 – Scholar, Institute of Development Studies, UK
2016 – Fellow, Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program
2016 – Associate Fellow, Nigeria Leadership Initiative
2015 – Distinguished Alumnus of the Year, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
2015 – Recipient, US Consul General’s Award, Lagos
2015 – Mandela Washington Fellow
2015 – Fellow, Civil Society Leadership Institute, Ghana
2014 – Fellow, Sexuality Leadership Development Fellowship
2014 – Fellow, Carrington Youth Fellowship, US Consulate, Lagos
REGISTER NOW to reserve your seat at www.sitsummit.org/register
Date: Friday, January 24, 2025.
Main Venue: J.F. Ade Ajayi
Auditorium, University of Lagos.
Sub venues: American Spaces in Nigeria (For delegates outside Lagos)
Theme: Leveraging Technology Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
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