On Saturday at Women Techmakers Ebonyi, with the theme “Break the Pattern”- I spoke on “Beyond Learning, Building Innovative Tech Solutions”.
Saturday felt like a mirror.
I asked a question:
“What real problem have you solved with everything you’ve learned”?
A lot of persons are not stuck because they don’t know enough. They’re really stuck because they don’t build.
We’ve created a culture of:
Learn → Learn more → Take another course → Repeat.
We’ve trained ourselves to keep learning without translating.
Meanwhile, real problems are sitting right in front of us.
A small NGO struggles to report impact clearly. A startup who do not understand business analytics.
A student misses opportunities because information never reaches them.
These are not “big tech problems.”
They are everyday frictions waiting for simple solutions. We looked at everyday problems we’ve normalized.
Innovation is not about complexity. We just need to pay attention.
I challenged the room to BUILD something small, ugly, imperfect and useful within 7 days.
Something for one real person.
We also have to make a shift.
From just:
“What can I build?”
To:
“What is actually painful for someone around me?”
In this decade; the gap is no longer access to knowledge. The gap is EXECUTION.
It’s about doing something different with what you already know.
If you attended, you know the assignment.😊
If you didn’t, you can still join:
-Pick one problem around you.
-Build the simplest version of a solution.
-Test it with real people.
That’s how patterns are broken.
Thank you Veloria Chimamanda Igweogu and your amazing team for organizing something beautiful as this. You have an excellent mind. Kudos💪
