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Oluseun Onigbinde [http://enterpraxis.com/the-future-awards-2012-meet-winners/ (18th September, 1985)] is a Nigerian [[Entrepreneurship|entrepreneur]] and [[open data]] analyst popularly known as the [[co-founder]] and [[CEO]] of [http://techcabal.com/2014/08/18/seun-onigbinde-and-budgit-on-ndani-digits/ BudgIT], a Nigerian civic startup. In 2012, he was awarded the [http://enterpraxis.com/the-future-awards-2012-meet-winners/ Future Awards Prize for Science and Tech Innovation.] |
Oluseun Onigbinde [http://enterpraxis.com/the-future-awards-2012-meet-winners/ (18th September, 1985)] is a Nigerian [[Entrepreneurship|entrepreneur]] and [[open data]] analyst popularly known as the [[co-founder]] and [[CEO]] of [http://techcabal.com/2014/08/18/seun-onigbinde-and-budgit-on-ndani-digits/ BudgIT], a Nigerian civic startup. In 2012, he was awarded the [http://enterpraxis.com/the-future-awards-2012-meet-winners/ Future Awards Prize for Science and Tech Innovation.] |
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== Early Life == |
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Oluseun was born in Ibadan. He was raised a Baptist. 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. |
Oluseun was born in Ibadan. He was raised a Baptist. 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. |
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== Educational Background == |
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Oluseun attended the [[Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta|University of Agriculture, Abeokuta]] where he obtained a [[Bachelor of Engineering|bachelor of engineering]] (B.Eng.) in [[Electrical engineering|Electrical/Electronics Engineering]] and the [[Stanford Graduate School of Business|Stanford university graduate school of business]] where he completed the executive program in [[social entrepreneurship]]. |
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== Early Career == |
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Oluseun Onigbinde worked for a brief period at [[Next (Nigeria)|Next Newspapers]] where he was an engineer for two and half months. His interest in banking was from his [[National Youth Service Corps|NYSC]] days. He was posted to [[Benin City]] and I got a job at [[Access Bank Plc|Access bank]]. Since he always to work in the finance industry, he later joined First Bank for a period of three and half years before he left to co-found BudgIT. |
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== Budgit == |
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In 2011, Seun Onigbinde and Jones Agunbiade formed a team during a hackathon held at the Co-Creation Hub. At the hackathon, he had an idea to make information about government spending more accessible to the average citizen. At that hackathon, the startup BudgIT was formed. |
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In an interview with Bella Naija in 2012, Seun said |
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''‘What’s the importance of external trade data to a Lalupon farmer? Just get him how much his LGA chairman got in a month and possibly send that through SMS. So, it’s an ongoing effort. We are trying to promote data-driven journalism. Focus on creatively using the data to tell stories and form narratives. “''[https://www.bellanaija.com/2012/09/bn-trailblazers-tastemakers-know-your-budgit-team-lead-seun-onigbinde-talks-about-his-start-ups-efforts-to-make-sense-of-government-budgets-for-everyone/] |
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Narrating the early days to technology new site techpoint.ng, Oluseun says |
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''“It was indeed scary. For months, I ruminated over it. But what made me finally decide was that BudgIT was going beyond what I thought it was initially. I had just won the Future Awards and the guys at Co-Creation Hub were saying, “would you just leave this job and focus on this full-time”? I got a lot of encouragement from people like Chude Jideonwo and Bosun Tijani, CEO of Co-Creation Hub. I was also a member of the Ashoka Fellowship, which guarantees your stipend for 3 years. So even if everything failed, I could find something else to go back to.”''[https://techpoint.ng/2015/07/06/meet-seun-onigbinde-the-man-budgit/] |
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On funding, he said |
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''[https://www.bellanaija.com/2012/09/bn-trailblazers-tastemakers-know-your-budgit-team-lead-seun-onigbinde-talks-about-his-start-ups-efforts-to-make-sense-of-government-budgets-for-everyone/ “We only get grants to survive. Grant of $8,000 from Indigo trust is all we ever had. You can’t take away the personal commitments of people. I could not afford to add a price tag. We have great support from Co-Creation Hub, Nigeria’s first incubation and living lab. Even when the grant ended, we had to continue spending. ”]'' |
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He is a big believer in open data as a big business opportunity as against the long-held notion that it should be pursued only as a non-profit activity. He believes that |
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''“Whereas [[Open data|Open Data]] is also an opportunity for great enterprise. Take BudgIT for instance; today there are 22 people working in BudgIT. Some of these people are direct leaders in their own families. We also have vendors and consultants, in and out of the the country who are also helping us. We are also raising income – we have a for-profit spin-off of BudgIT coming soon, which will focus on data visualization for businesses.”'' |
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''“Government doesn’t see that. There’s transport data, environmental data, educational data, health data. How about opening up JAMB or WAEC scores for schools, as a great transformation tool to help parents decide where they will place their kids? When you visit state government websites, there’s almost nothing there. All you see is PR platforms where you find about how government just commissioned a new generator or transformer.”''[https://techpoint.ng/2015/07/06/meet-seun-onigbinde-the-man-budgit/] |
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== Data Journalism == |
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Onigbinde has always been a big believer in data-driven journalism. In 2014, Budgit launched Tracka, a project tracking tool. When asked about Tracka, he said |
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''“Project tracking at the community level is very important to us. We have this tool called Tracka. We try to track local community projects. Another thing we have an interest in is Data Journalism. We have a tool called Fitila. We are also trying to partner with a core media organisation on Data Journalism. The idea is that rather than having reports just being entirely narrative, we want them to be backed by data. We don’t want 1000-word opinion pieces not backed with data that is guiding the thoughts. Media houses like the Guardian, New York Time, Vox and 538 blog by Nate Silver, do a lot of this. That’s the kind of thing we are trying to do. So when you argue that there is a fiscal crisis in the country, we want you to base your argument on data. Data journalism will make it more empirical and factual and it can also allow people puncture your data and arguments based on what you have given out. That’s one of the key things we are trying to do.”''[https://techpoint.ng/2015/07/06/meet-seun-onigbinde-the-man-budgit/] |
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== Budgit.co == |
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In 2015, BudgIT launched BudgIT for [https://techpoint.ng/2015/07/03/budgit-launches-paid-model-for-businesses-budgit-co/ Business], a paid model of its current data analysis and [[Infographic|infographics]] design offerings. According to Oluseun, the for-profit arm’s services includes Creative Document Redesign, Infographics for Corporates, Big Data and Social Media Analytics, Data Journalism and Predictive Analysis. Oluseun Onigbinde, says the model is a strategic move aimed at raising revenue for the non-profit start-up’s operational costs and advocacy campaigns on public finance data and transparency. |
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''“Based on the current model of raising funds mostly through grants from charity foundations and impact investors, BudgIT’s revenues force us to consider corporate offerings as a spin-off of our organization’s duties, to ensure we maintain consistency in our impact pattern and meet our obligations to our staff and more importantly to the citizens of Nigeria ”'' |
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== Open Budgeting partnership with the Kaduna State government [http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/185725-kaduna-budgit-partner-on-open-budget-system.html][https://techpoint.ng/2015/06/26/kaduna-government-signs-budgit-to-build-open-budget-mobile-portal/][http://govtechnology.com.ng/2015/09/open-data-kaduna-state-budgit-partner-on-open-budget-system/] == |
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The announcement came after BudgIT disclosed a partnership with the Kaduna State government, to create an Open Data Platform where residents can monitor the government’s policies, budgets, procurement records and the status of all released funds, via their mobile phones. |
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== [https://techpoint.ng/2015/07/06/meet-seun-onigbinde-the-man-budgit/ Quotes] == |
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# Start. Start on a small scale. Have enough persistence. |
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# One thing I have found out is that the journey is greater than the destination for most entrepreneurs. So just start and give all your mind to it. Maybe you will find something huge along the way that will be the final step to what you’re trying to do. I once worked on a climate change advocacy group that never scaled. Whatever idea you have, give it a try, give your best to it, give all your grit to it. When you see an opportunity opening, maximize it. |
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# Another advice I would give is to build your connections. A lot of people here don’t believe in collaboration. You need to understand that your idea is not isolated, there are also other people who are connected to it. That’s the mindset that accelerated BudgIT’s growth. We had partnerships with EiE Nigeria, CSOs that have been traditional working on budgets, government institutions. |
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# Be more collaborative, have that tireless persistence and understand that the lessons you pickup along the way can be an opening for a bigger future. |
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== Awards and recognitions. == |
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* Ashoka Fellowship for Global Entrepreneurs. |
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* The Future Awards, 2012.[http://connectnigeria.com/articles/2012/08/the-full-list-of-the-future-awards-2012-winners/] |
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* World Summit Youth Award |
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* Knight International Journalism Fellow |
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* International Center for Journalists |
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* Harambe Fellowship (Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance) |
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* 2016 Aspen New Voices Fellowship |
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* 2016 Draper Hills Summer Fellowship, Stanford University (Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of the Law). |
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== Videos == |
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# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_BSLbZwhLM Where do Tech Ideas Come From?: Seun Onigbinde at TEDxIfe ...] |
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# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9plwQBAJoXE Seun Onigbinde Ask Questions - YouTube] |
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# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCdSq4kIa0o Happiness of life | Oluseun Onigbinde | TEDxAkure - YouTube] |
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# [http://www.cnbcafrica.com/video/?bctid=5036759026001 Video: Nigeria's revenue drop by 40% - CNBC Africa] |
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# [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApOVgehTwXM Cost of Corruption Opening Remark by Seun Onigbinde - YouTube] |
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# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kj55JkfYDU Business Morning: Is Nigeria Running Broke? 07/05/15 - YouTube] |
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# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe0eR3yF1ZY Business Nigeria with Seun Onigbide on Domestic Debt - YouTube] |
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# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyi4NcMZZbw OLUSEUN ONIGBINDE: CIVIC TOOLS IN NIGERIA - YouTube] |
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# [http://www.cnbcafrica.com/video/?bctid=4641909285001 Video: Sustaining Nigeria's public debt - CNBC Africa] |
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# [http://www.cnbcafrica.com/video/?bctid=4815034684001 Video: Nigeria's budget 2016 decreases - CNBC Africa] |
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# [http://www.cnbcafrica.com/video/?bctid=4602780401001 Video: The economy of Nigeria's States - CNBC Africa] |
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# [http://www.cnbcafrica.com/video/?bctid=4971881195001 Video: Nigerian States seek another bailout - CNBC Africa] |
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# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Zg-9QgSnk Office Of The Nigerian Citizen| Seriously Speaking. - YouTube] |
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# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFAeO5LA2Mk THE NIGERIAN BUDGET (A REVIEW BY YOURBUDGIT.COM ...] |
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# [http://www.cnbcafrica.com/video/?bctid=4711610956001 Video: Nigerian President Buhari withdraws budget to correct errors ...] |
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# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTlw3iW8_vU BudgIT.Co Pitch to ALN - YouTube] |
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# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBQzenzK3dY Business Morning: Decisions Buhari, NASS, Governors Face 07/05/15 ...] |
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# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG6_zZaakMg Digits - Budgit - YouTube] |
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# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5tgHv9pAgY Sam Adeyemi, Oby Ezekwesili, Abike Dabiri others celebrate Chude ...] |
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# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vutsk3mzDZ0 Accountable Governance - YouTube (Cost of corruption Opening remark by Seun Onigbinde)] |
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# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2IaZVJIDx0 PSVW 2011Award - YouTube (Cost of corruption Opening remark by Seun Onigbinde)] |
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# [http://www.gullutube.pk/watch/b4Zg-9QgSnk Office Of The Nigerian Citizen| Seriously Speaking. - GulluTube] |
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# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jSAWkLtltk VPS Agege J4A Programme In collaboration with CLEEN Foundation ...] |
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== External Links == |
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[https://www.facebook.com/oluseun.onigbinde Oluseun Onigbinde on facebook] |
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[https://twitter.com/seunonigbinde Oluseun Onigbinde on Twitter] |
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[https://www.linkedin.com/in/oluseunonigbinde Oluseun Onigbinde on Linkedin] |
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[http://cchubnigeria.com/ventures/budgit/ Oluseun Onigbinde on CCHub’s ventures page.] |
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== References == |
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{{Reflist}} |
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Oluseun Onigbinde (18th September, 1985) is a Nigerian entrepreneur and open data analyst popularly known as the co-founder and CEO of BudgIT, a Nigerian civic startup. In 2012, he was awarded the Future Awards Prize for Science and Tech Innovation.
Early Life
Oluseun was born in Ibadan. He was raised a Baptist. 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.
Seun answering questions about his background “I had a tough Mum. I love her and I appreciate those days of discipline. Those were the formative years of my life. I had primary and secondary school in Ibadan. Secondary school was a smooth sail with nine distinctions. Back then I just had to face my studies. Remember I told you about my wonderful mum? I attended the University of Agriculture to study Engineering; got involved in school politics; led an engineering student body. I worked in two banks before I left to focus on BudgIT. I like reading. In the split second, if I string narrative together I might take a sharp cross from a novice to an expert. Same with all the ideas I have tried to pursue.”
Oluseun Onigbinde | |
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Born | Oluseun David Onigbinde Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria. |
Nationality | Nigerian |
Education | University of Agriculture, Abeokuta Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical/Electronics Engineering. |
Occupation(s) | Open Data advocate, Entrepreneur |
Years active | 2011–present |
Known for | Co-Founder and CEO of BudgIT. |
Notable work | Popular budgit projects |
Title | CEO of BudgIT |
Spouse |
Oluwaseun Agbelusi (m. 2024) |
Children | 1 |
Awards | Ashoka Fellowship for Global Entrepreneurs. The Future Awards, 2012. |
Website | oluseunonigbinde |
Educational Background
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.
Early Career
Oluseun Onigbinde worked for a brief period at Next Newspapers where he was an engineer for two and half months. His interest in banking was from his NYSC days. He was posted to Benin City and I got a job at Access bank. Since he always to work in the finance industry, he later joined First Bank for a period of three and half years before he left to co-found BudgIT.
Budgit
In 2011, Seun Onigbinde and Jones Agunbiade formed a team during a hackathon held at the Co-Creation Hub. At the hackathon, he had an idea to make information about government spending more accessible to the average citizen. At that hackathon, the startup BudgIT was formed.
In an interview with Bella Naija in 2012, Seun said
‘What’s the importance of external trade data to a Lalupon farmer? Just get him how much his LGA chairman got in a month and possibly send that through SMS. So, it’s an ongoing effort. We are trying to promote data-driven journalism. Focus on creatively using the data to tell stories and form narratives. “[1]
Narrating the early days to technology new site techpoint.ng, Oluseun says
“It was indeed scary. For months, I ruminated over it. But what made me finally decide was that BudgIT was going beyond what I thought it was initially. I had just won the Future Awards and the guys at Co-Creation Hub were saying, “would you just leave this job and focus on this full-time”? I got a lot of encouragement from people like Chude Jideonwo and Bosun Tijani, CEO of Co-Creation Hub. I was also a member of the Ashoka Fellowship, which guarantees your stipend for 3 years. So even if everything failed, I could find something else to go back to.”[2]
On funding, he said
He is a big believer in open data as a big business opportunity as against the long-held notion that it should be pursued only as a non-profit activity. He believes that
“Whereas Open Data is also an opportunity for great enterprise. Take BudgIT for instance; today there are 22 people working in BudgIT. Some of these people are direct leaders in their own families. We also have vendors and consultants, in and out of the the country who are also helping us. We are also raising income – we have a for-profit spin-off of BudgIT coming soon, which will focus on data visualization for businesses.”
“Government doesn’t see that. There’s transport data, environmental data, educational data, health data. How about opening up JAMB or WAEC scores for schools, as a great transformation tool to help parents decide where they will place their kids? When you visit state government websites, there’s almost nothing there. All you see is PR platforms where you find about how government just commissioned a new generator or transformer.”[3]
Data Journalism
Onigbinde has always been a big believer in data-driven journalism. In 2014, Budgit launched Tracka, a project tracking tool. When asked about Tracka, he said
“Project tracking at the community level is very important to us. We have this tool called Tracka. We try to track local community projects. Another thing we have an interest in is Data Journalism. We have a tool called Fitila. We are also trying to partner with a core media organisation on Data Journalism. The idea is that rather than having reports just being entirely narrative, we want them to be backed by data. We don’t want 1000-word opinion pieces not backed with data that is guiding the thoughts. Media houses like the Guardian, New York Time, Vox and 538 blog by Nate Silver, do a lot of this. That’s the kind of thing we are trying to do. So when you argue that there is a fiscal crisis in the country, we want you to base your argument on data. Data journalism will make it more empirical and factual and it can also allow people puncture your data and arguments based on what you have given out. That’s one of the key things we are trying to do.”[4]
Budgit.co
In 2015, BudgIT launched BudgIT for Business, a paid model of its current data analysis and infographics design offerings. According to Oluseun, the for-profit arm’s services includes Creative Document Redesign, Infographics for Corporates, Big Data and Social Media Analytics, Data Journalism and Predictive Analysis. Oluseun Onigbinde, says the model is a strategic move aimed at raising revenue for the non-profit start-up’s operational costs and advocacy campaigns on public finance data and transparency.
“Based on the current model of raising funds mostly through grants from charity foundations and impact investors, BudgIT’s revenues force us to consider corporate offerings as a spin-off of our organization’s duties, to ensure we maintain consistency in our impact pattern and meet our obligations to our staff and more importantly to the citizens of Nigeria ”
Open Budgeting partnership with the Kaduna State government [5][6][7]
The announcement came after BudgIT disclosed a partnership with the Kaduna State government, to create an Open Data Platform where residents can monitor the government’s policies, budgets, procurement records and the status of all released funds, via their mobile phones.
Quotes
- Start. Start on a small scale. Have enough persistence.
- One thing I have found out is that the journey is greater than the destination for most entrepreneurs. So just start and give all your mind to it. Maybe you will find something huge along the way that will be the final step to what you’re trying to do. I once worked on a climate change advocacy group that never scaled. Whatever idea you have, give it a try, give your best to it, give all your grit to it. When you see an opportunity opening, maximize it.
- Another advice I would give is to build your connections. A lot of people here don’t believe in collaboration. You need to understand that your idea is not isolated, there are also other people who are connected to it. That’s the mindset that accelerated BudgIT’s growth. We had partnerships with EiE Nigeria, CSOs that have been traditional working on budgets, government institutions.
- Be more collaborative, have that tireless persistence and understand that the lessons you pickup along the way can be an opening for a bigger future.
Awards and recognitions.
- Ashoka Fellowship for Global Entrepreneurs.
- The Future Awards, 2012.[8]
- World Summit Youth Award
- Knight International Journalism Fellow
- International Center for Journalists
- Harambe Fellowship (Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance)
- 2016 Aspen New Voices Fellowship
- 2016 Draper Hills Summer Fellowship, Stanford University (Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of the Law).
Videos
- Where do Tech Ideas Come From?: Seun Onigbinde at TEDxIfe ...
- Seun Onigbinde Ask Questions - YouTube
- Happiness of life | Oluseun Onigbinde | TEDxAkure - YouTube
- Video: Nigeria's revenue drop by 40% - CNBC Africa
- Cost of Corruption Opening Remark by Seun Onigbinde - YouTube
- Business Morning: Is Nigeria Running Broke? 07/05/15 - YouTube
- Business Nigeria with Seun Onigbide on Domestic Debt - YouTube
- OLUSEUN ONIGBINDE: CIVIC TOOLS IN NIGERIA - YouTube
- Video: Sustaining Nigeria's public debt - CNBC Africa
- Video: Nigeria's budget 2016 decreases - CNBC Africa
- Video: The economy of Nigeria's States - CNBC Africa
- Video: Nigerian States seek another bailout - CNBC Africa
- Office Of The Nigerian Citizen| Seriously Speaking. - YouTube
- THE NIGERIAN BUDGET (A REVIEW BY YOURBUDGIT.COM ...
- Video: Nigerian President Buhari withdraws budget to correct errors ...
- BudgIT.Co Pitch to ALN - YouTube
- Business Morning: Decisions Buhari, NASS, Governors Face 07/05/15 ...
- Digits - Budgit - YouTube
- Sam Adeyemi, Oby Ezekwesili, Abike Dabiri others celebrate Chude ...
- Accountable Governance - YouTube (Cost of corruption Opening remark by Seun Onigbinde)
- PSVW 2011Award - YouTube (Cost of corruption Opening remark by Seun Onigbinde)
- Office Of The Nigerian Citizen| Seriously Speaking. - GulluTube
- VPS Agege J4A Programme In collaboration with CLEEN Foundation ...
External Links
Oluseun Onigbinde on CCHub’s ventures page.